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They Cannot Take the Sky
Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who've experienced it.
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Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees
\"A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; Josâe tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba fl es Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information. These remarkable accounts will give readers a keen appreciation of the devastating effects of war and poverty on youth like themselves, and helps put the mounting current refugee crisis into stark context.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Resilient Kitchens
Immigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of
American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep
America's kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the
COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought
home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American
food system. For others, cooking was a way of reconnecting with
homelands they could not visit during periods of lockdown.
Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of
Crisis is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives
of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19
pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix
of perspectives from professional food writers, restaurateurs,
scholars, and activists, whose stories range from emotional
reflections on hardship, loss, and resilience to journalistic
investigations of racism in the American food system. Each
contribution is accompanied by a recipe of special importance to
the author, giving readers a taste of cuisines from around the
world. Every essay is accompanied by gorgeous food photography, the
authors' snapshots of pandemic life, and hand-drawn illustrations
by Filipino American artist Angelo Dolojan.
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Desperately seeking asylum : testimonies of trauma, courage, and love
\"Desperately Seeking Asylum prioritizes the testimonies of refugee families and unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the U.S. from Central America, primarily Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Their desperate and heart-wrenching stories disclose why they fled their homelands, their experiences along the treacherous overland journey, and the harsh reality of how the U.S. treats these families and children upon arrival to the U.S. It critiques U.S. complicity to the violence they are fleeing and discloses how national leadership shapes U.S. Immigration policies and practices, including the blatant documented violations against asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Most notably, it offers transparency on U.S. Immigration practices at the U.S.-Mexico border which violate existing U.S. and international laws that are intended to protect asylum seekers, including the current official practice of blocking bridges with 'turnbacks' to prevent 'inadmissibles' from applying for asylum in the U.S. It explains protections mandated by U.S. law for unaccompanied children who are in U.S. custody, and discloses violations which keep these children detained excessive lengths of time in substandard for-profit facilities which are overseen by the government and funded by taxpayers. Boursier also deconstructs the complicated asylum process, including examining the credible fear for asylum procedure, showing how technical terms and language are used to justify injustice at the border\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Immigration Experience of Iranian Baha'is in Saskatchewan: The Reconstruction of Their Existence, Faith, and Religious Experience
For approximately 150 years, Baha'is in Iran have been persecuted on the basis of their religion. Limitations to aspects of their lives have compelled them to face \"civic death\" or migrate to other countries. This qualitative pilot study explored the experience of forced migration and how religion attenuates the disruption to the lives of Iranian Baha'is. Adaptive strategies that four participants utilised to re-establish continuity were examined. Participants who were satisfied with their lives developed a way to allow parallel cultural traditions (Iranian and Canadian) to co-exist; those who could not integrate found it difficult to maintain a balance between these traditions.
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Health and healing: traditional medicine and the Karen experience
To examine the beliefs, attitudes and health-seeking behavior surrounding the use of traditional medicine among the Karen (refugees from Burma).
Three focus groups and two key-informant interviews were conducted with the Karen along with observations by researchers.
The Karen continue to use elements of their traditional healthcare system after resettling in the U.S. Accessibility and perceived efficacy of treatments influence their health-seeking behavior. The participants discussed beliefs about health and healing, spirituality, and their experience as refugees. Implications for improving the quality of healthcare for the Karen and recommendations for further research are discussed.
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Neomodern Insecurity in Haiti and the Politics of Asylum
The term ‘asylum’ has a dual connotation that generates opposing but related forms of intervention: providing sanctuary and protection vs. imposing confinement and quarantine. The proliferation of “neomodern insecurity”—intrastate violence and the specter of transnational terrorism, arising within many postcolonial, postauthoritarian and postsocialist states—generates intervention practices that reflect the dual connotations of asylum. In fragile states like Haiti, national insecurity (
ensekirite
) often results in the flight of traumatized populations across and within national borders. For these individuals, ‘asylum’ connotes the attainment of political recognition and inclusion outside Haiti’s space of
ensekirite
. Ironically, these vulnerable persons may be viewed as threats to the nations they seek to enter. In so-called secure states like the United States, the threat of insecurity often engenders interventions to contain, manage and rehabilitate states of disorder, as well as their disordered subjects. By chronicling the case of a young Haitian refugee who sought asylum in the United States, was detained and then repatriated after manifesting the disordered signs of insecurity, I argue that the Haitian trope of
ensekirite
captures and prefigures the subjective experience of neomodernity, one for which there is no asylum.
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