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Conflict and forced migration : escape from oppression and stories of survival, resilience, and hope / edited by Gil Richard Musolf.
LIBRA HM1 .S84 FOR HOLDINGS CONSULT DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARY v.1 (1978)-v.3 (1980)
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Van Pelt Library HM1 .S84 v.1 (1978)-v.60
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in symbolic interaction ; 0163-2396 51.
- Studies in symbolic interaction, 0163-2396 ; volume 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forced migration--United States.
- Forced migration.
- Refugees--United States--Social conditions.
- Refugees.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- This timely collection brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, to explore the current face of migration conflict.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Refugees
- Refugee Status and Resettlement in the United States
- References
- Part I. The Social Structure of Conflict
- Chapter 1 The Asylum-seeking Process: An American Tradition
- Asylum Seekers
- Affirmative Asylum
- Defensive Asylum and Removal Proceedings
- Expedited Removal
- Appearance Rates in Immigration Court
- Detention
- Central America, Asylum, and Zero Tolerance
- Immigration Court's Priority Dockets
- Blocking Legal Entry
- Denying Asylum to Victims of Domestic and Gang Violence
- Zero Tolerance, Criminalization, and Operation Streamline
- Unauthorized Migrants' Crime Rates
- Separation of Children from Parents at the US-Mexico Border
- The Reunification Order
- Unaccompanied Minors (UACs)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- Appendix: List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 2 The Crisis in Darfur and the Social Structure of Global Climate Change, Race, and Gender
- Climate-based Violence in Darfur
- Climate Change as a Social Structure
- Agency in Confronting Climate Violence and Climate Change in Darfur
- Race-based Violence in Darfur
- Race as a Social Structure
- Agency in Confronting Race-based Violence in Darfur
- Gender-based Violence in Darfur
- Gender as a Social Structure
- Agency and Gender-based Violence
- Chapter 3 Transnational Solidarity of Circassians in-between Caucasus and Middle East
- Method of Research
- Theoretical Framework
- Migrant Networks and Agency-structure in Migration
- Historical Background
- Partitioning of Refugees as Structural Condition.
- Emergence of Syrian Circassians as Actors with Their Own Agency
- Relation with Homeland as Social Interaction
- Ba'ath Regime, 2011 Uprising and Syrian Circassians in the Current Crisis
- Transnational Solidarity among Circassians after the Syrian Crisis
- The New Forced Migration Experience of Syrian Circassians and Transnational Solidarity
- Return to the Homeland as a Structural Condition
- Tentative Conclusion
- Part II. Voices of Survival, Resilience, and Hope
- Chapter 4 The Rock in the Stream
- The Lucky One
- The Rock of Our Family
- The War in the Faces of the People
- Coming to America
- The Rude Awakening
- A Knight to the Rescue
- The System
- Trash Turns to Treasure
- The Black Sheep of the Family
- The Dream that Was Never Over
- The Big Apple
- The African Proverb
- Chapter 5 From War to Peace: Loved Back to Life!
- My Feelings about the Serbs as a Child Growing up
- My Career Journey: Paper Trails … My Challenges at Work!
- Social Life Outside of Work and in College
- Challenges in the US
- Hopes for Kosovo
- Chapter 6 Bendito Infierno
- Leaving Home
- The Desert Crossing
- Primero Dios
- Chapter 7 Falling in Love with a Refugee
- Further Reading
- Chapter 8 Re-thinking the "Starting Point" for Research: The Challenges and Possibilities for Building Reflexive Knowledge ...
- Shifting from Experiential Knowledge to Reflexive Knowledge
- The "Generous" Canadian Immigration Regime and the Limits of Experiential Knowledge
- Looking beyond the Digital Story and Long-term Reflexive Knowledge Building
- Reflexive Ways of Knowing Anchored by Feminist Standpoint Epistemology
- Rethinking the Starting Point for Critical and Participatory Research
- Recognition of Historical, Economic and Political Conditions.
- The Co-construction of Knowledge
- Ongoing Critical Self-reflection
- Toward an Ethics of Accountability
- Engaging with CPAR Principles by Fostering Empowerment with MSM Latino Migrants
- Situating Myself as Researcher
- My Starting Points for Research with MSM Latino Migrants
- The Challenges and Possibilities of Co-constructing and Situating Knowledge
- Integrating a Critical Perspective into a Community-based and Participatory Research Project
- Bibliography
- Part III. Humanitarian Advocacy
- Chapter 9 The Social Construction of Child Protection in an Anti-immigration Context
- Constructivist Approach to Child Protection and Immigrants
- The Origins of Child Protection in the US
- The Intersection of Racism, Xenophobia, and the Child Welfare System
- A History of Forced Separations of Children from Their Families
- Forced Separations of Latinx Children from Their Families
- Immigration Policy and Child Welfare Practice
- Chapter 10 The Children Left Behind
- My Background
- Assessment of Trauma
- Children: The Social Context
- Children's Voices
- Reference
- Chapter 11 A Heart Shaped Like Syria
- The Shock
- The War
- The Idea
- The Action
- Project A: Awareness and Scholarship/Educating Our Community
- Local Outreach: Syrian Students in Schools
- Education Outreach on the UE Campus: The Scholars for Syria Speaker Series
- Movie Screenings
- The Travel Ban
- Organizational Recognition
- Curriculum Development
- National and Global Outreach: Extending Our Hands and Hearts
- Books Not Bombs
- Paper Airplanes
- Project B: Connection and Scholarship/Reaching Our Community
- Media Outreach
- Employment
- Project C: Fundraising and Scholarship/Supporting Syrians Home and Abroad
- The Agency.
- The Bond
- Part IV. Art and Hope
- Chapter 12 The Art of Re-Bildung the Refugee: Agency Through Literary Structure in the Bildungsroman
- Structure
- Scale
- Reach
- Story Becomes Reality
- Today's Dominant Story
- Subject to Change
- Agency
- Literary Intervention
- The Novel Education of the Bildungsroman
- Layers and Literary Ethics
- Writing the Book on Refugee and Forced Migration Experience: A Lesson in Form
- Freedoms of Fiction, Danger of "Facts"
- Reading the Audience: Opening Time
- Reverse Operations and Narrative Twists: A Telling Story through Story-telling
- Building the Refugee and Forced Migration Subject into (Mosaic)Being
- Making Use of Narrative Agency: What Story Allows for the Subject
- Step 1: Release - Ismet Prcic's (… shards…): A Novel
- Step 2: Expression - Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis (1 + 2: The Story of a Childhood &
- The Story of a Return)
- Step 3: Connection - Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati: A Story
- Beyond the Page: Possibilities of Encounter and Where the Story Goes from Here
- Chapter 13 The Syrian Refugee Art Project
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781838673956
- 1838673954
- 9781838673932
- 1838673938
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