Issues of asylum, migration, humanitarian protection and integration/belonging are of growing interest beyond the disciplines of refugee studies, migration, and social policy. Rooted in more than two decades of scholarship, this book uses critical social theory and the participatory, biographical and arts-based methods used with asylum seekers, refugees and emerging communities to explore the dynamics of the asylum-migration-community nexus. It argues that interdisciplinary analysis is required to deal with the complexity of the issues involved and offers understanding as praxis (purposeful knowledge), drawing on innovative research that is participatory, arts-based, performative and policy-relevant.
This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive picture available of statistical data sources on international migration and asylum in the European Union (EU).
This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration and ...
This report outlines examples of community policing measures in select EU Member State regions and localities with recently arrived asylum seekers and migrants.
As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how migration is being approached at the highest levels of international governance.
Building upon an ethnographic study carried out in the UK with refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the book explores how object-led approaches can inspire new ways of thinking about and analysing refugees’ experiences and ...
This study aims at providing a legal perspective on migration health in Europe through a review of European Community Law and Council of Europe instruments. Health inequalities between host populations...
This book outlines ways in which churches are currently supporting asylum seekers, encouraging closer engagement with people seen as 'other' and more thoughtful responses to newcomers.
He said that the photographs and words made him understand that other people were having the same thoughts and ... 'the space of non-place creates neither singular identity nor relations; only solitude, and similitude' (1995: 103).
These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s.
The concept of 'diasporic Chineseness' that I intend to adopt in this chapter for art historical migration and diaspora ... Chinese cultural studies by the publication Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China (Kuehn et al., 2013).