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Survival Migration
International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as \"refugees,\" preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of \"survival migration\" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves.
Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa-Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia-Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. InSurvival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.
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The New African Diaspora in Vancouver
The New African Diaspora in Vancouvermaps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity.
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The Natural Border
The Natural Border tells the
recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the
perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers.
Timothy Raeymaekers shows how in the context of global supply
chains and repressive border regimes, agrarian production and
reproduction are based on fundamental racial hierarchies.
Taking the example of the tomato-a typical 'Made in Italy'
commodity-Raeymaekers asks how political boundaries are drawn
around the land and the labor needed for its production, what
technologies of exclusion and inclusion enable capitalist
operations to take place in the Mediterranean agrarian frontier,
and which practices structure the allocation, use and
commodification of land and labor across the tomato chain. While
the mobile infrastructures that mobilize, channel, commodify and
segregate labor play a central role in the 'naturalization' of
racial segregation, they are also terrains of contestation and
power-and thus, as The Natural Border demonstrates,
reflect the tense socio-ecological transformation the Mediterranean
border space is going through today.
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Refugees, conflict and the search for belonging
This title is about the convergence of two problems: the ongoing realities of conflict and forced migration in Africa's Great Lakes region, and the crisis of citizenship and belonging. By bringing them together, the intention is to see how, combined, they can help point the way towards possible solutions.
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Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration
Migration and especially irregular migration are politically sensitive and highly debated issues in the developed world, particularly in Europe. This book analyses irregular protection-seeking migration in Europe, with close attention to sub-Saharan migration into the EU, from the perspective of emancipatory security theory.
Some individuals leave their countries because political, social, and economic structures largely fail to provide protection. This book examines how communities respond to migrants who seek protection and security, where migration is perceived as a source of insecurity by many in that community. The central aim of this critical analysis is to explore ideas and practices which can contribute to replacing the political structures of insecurity with emancipatory structures, where individuals (both irregular migrants and members of the receiving communities) enjoy security together, not opposed to each other. Drawing on the security dilemma, critical approaches to security, forced migration and trust, the book demonstrates how common life between two groups of individuals can be politically constructed, in tandem with limitations, risks, and possible handicaps of initiating such a construction in world politics.
Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration will be of interest to students and scholars of migration studies, security studies, international relations, European politics and sociology.
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The natural border : bounding migrant farmwork in the Black Mediterranean
\"The Natural Border tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farmworkers. In the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, the book foregrounds the fundamental racial hierarchies upon which agrarian production and reproduction are based\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road
What does it mean to cross half a continent without documents or rights? The self-told story of African migration.
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