Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies: An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective: Ali R. Abootelabi: Lexington Books

Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies

An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective

Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies

An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective

Description

Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies: An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective focuses on a sustained analysis of the nature of forced displacement with an emphasis on the attendant human tragedies that come with the forced displacement of people. It explores the connections in refugee, migrant, and IDPs themes with a goal to sketching out some ways of thinking about refugees, migrants, and IDPs through the different chapters.
The collection aims to answer the following questions: What discourses are created around refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from different parts of the world? What is the relationship between those discourses and foreign policies and national politics in the North and South? With chapters from scholars and policy makers from different parts of the world experiencing the refugee and forced migration crises, this book will enhance the perceptions we have on these populations and help to make the policies that govern them.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Fonkem Achankeng
Chapter 1: Expanding the Social Contract: Responding Ethically to the Migration Crisis by Eric Kraemer
Chapter 2: Global Refugee Crisis as Crisis of Imperialist Accumulation by Dispossession by Immanuel Tatah Mentan
Chapter 3: Citizenship as Commodity: A Closer Look at Birthright Citizenship by Philip Sutherland
Chapter 4: Colonialism, Refugees, Migrants and Human Tragedies by Fonkem Achankeng
Chapter 5: Refugees and Immigrants: The Tragedy of Arab Politics in the Early 21th Century by Ali R. Abootelabi
Chapter 6: Beyond Resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Bakassi: Challenges and Vistas by Osita Adah
Chapter 7: Refugees With or Without Papers: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resettlement in the United States by Donald F. Hones, Mayra Pasayes, and Txerthoj Vang
Chapter 8: Rudolphs Searching for Sleighs: Parallels, Paradoxes and the Emotional Challenges of Standing Out Without a Stage by Patience E. Fonkem
Chapter 9: The Hmong American Experience: The Shifting, Cultivation, Transformation and Preservation of an Ancient Culture by Pao Lor
Chapter 10: Involuntary Migration and Human Security in Africa: Exploring Legal Frameworks and Regional Infrastructure for Refugee Protection by Goodnews Osah, Abiola Abayomi Isikalu, Nwadiuto Franca Nwakanma & Uzzibi Methuselah Irmiya
Chapter 11: ESTHER, Refugees, and Immigrants in the Fox Valley Region by Hannah P. Schmidt
Chapter 12: Migration and African Diasporic Living Conditions by Chibuzor Ayodele Nwaodike, Goodnews Osah, and Uduakobong Edy-Ewoh
Chapter 13: Complexities of Boko Haram-Induced Displacement in Nigeria by Michael Ihuoma Ogu and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Chapter 14: Public Art, Public Voices: Changing the Narrative on Borders and Belonging by Shane Boeder
Chapter 15: Border Crosser by Donald J. Hones andA Refugee by Jodi Meyer
Appendix A: Questionnaires for Mayra Pasayes and Txerthoj Vang
About the Contributors

Product details

Published	Dec 06 2023
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	358
ISBN	9781793621658
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	1 table; 5 graphs
Dimensions	236 x 158 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Authoritative, provocative, and prescriptive in orientation; this books highlights a humanitarian crisis that constitutes a global embarrassment. Its interdisciplinary profile provides a framework for understanding the historical and lived experiences of affected persons offered in theoretical, empirical, and literary research traditions.

Sati Fwatshak, University of Jos
Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies: An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective provides insightful analysis and prognosis of the global refugee crisis and the plight of Internally Displacement Persons. The different chapters are written by experts in the field in very lucid language, providing different perspectives to Migration, Refugee and Displacement issues that would interest scholars, policy makers, as well as general interest readers. I recommend the book to anyone interested in Migration, Refugee and Displacement issues in any part of the globe.

Ngozi Nwogwugwu, Babcock University
This is a timely book which will be valuable to both professionals and students alike. These are stories of human tragedies and triumphs despite borders and displacements and in spite of conflict. These are lived stories of migrants, which will be cherished for their veracity and which transcend nations and nationalist borders.

J.P. Linstroth, Palm Beach State College