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Bullets on the Water
Civil wars in Africa, the collapse of the central regime in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda, the Persian Gulf war in the Middle East, the collapse of the military regimes in Central America, new ethnic clashes in the former USSR - all these events have resulted in an increased number of displaced people, most of whom never expected to find themselves in such a situation. Their refusal to accept the division of their countries into separate ethnic, religious, or political groups or to participate in dubious political games exacted a heavy price - they lost their homelands and became refugees.
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Blatant Injustice
After escaping from Nazi Germany with his family, Igersheimer was completing his medical studies when he was caught in the panic that led to the internment of 30,000 German and Italian citizens living in Britain. They were placed behind barbed wire and treated as enemies. Many of the Jewish refugees were then sent to prisons in Canada, but the internees did not let the authorities crush their creativity or desire for an education: they started a free university, mounted plays, and wrote musicals. Laced with black humour, Blatant Injustice is a story of resilience and determination.
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The sadness of geography : my life as a Tamil exile
\"The harrowing journey of a teenage refugee who never gave up on his dream of seeing his family again. Born to a wealthy family in northern Sri Lanka, Logathasan (Das) Tharmathurai and his family lost everything during the long and brutal Sri Lankan Civil War. In January 1985, at the age of eighteen, Das left his home in Sri Lanka in a desperate bid to build a new life for himself and his family abroad after a deeply traumatic encounter with a group of Sinhalese soldiers. As his terrifying and often astonishing journey unfolds, he finds himself in a refugee camp, being smuggled across international borders, living with drug dealers, imprisoned, and more. The Sadness of Geography is a moving story of innocence lost, the persecution of an entire people, and the universal quest for a better life.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Otto and Daria
A poignant memoir of lives cleaved by war, Otto and Daria is the first-hand account of Eric Koch, a man who once was called Otto. As a Jewish refugee from WWII Germany, Otto first left his country for England, and later arrived in Canada, where he was for a time imprisoned in a camp. The counterpoint to Otto's recollections are the letters from his long-distance love interest, Daria Hambourg, a London girl of bohemian temperament, unusual literary talents and a distinguished, but restrictive, family background. These parallel writings tell the story of two young people caught in the grip of history, and together show what you have to give up in order to move forward.
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Hanna's Diary, 1938-1941
Hanna's Diary, 1938-1941 offers an intimate view of sweeping historical events that engulfed Europe and the world, evoking the creeping fear, desperate hopes, desertion of friends, and sense of isolation that Hanna Spencer felt as Nazism spread. The diary follows Spencer to England - where she faced misery of a different kind - and then to Canada where, as a young immigrant with a PhD, she worked in her uncle's glove-making factory before finally landing a teaching job in Ottawa. Spencer describes her experiences lecturing on Czechoslovakia's history and its takeover by the Nazis, and her resulting celebrity on the Ontario lecture circuit.
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Coronavirus containment: communal future-making and the logics of containment in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Anthropological literature on future-making has highlighted the diversity of practices migrants’ can enact to realise their possible future or future-orientated projects. While such an approach has been instrumental in thinking about how futures can be collectively enacted, less interest has been given to how they might correspond to containment logics. This paper examines the collectivist forms of future-making practices and how they correspond to or resist containment logics. By tracing the life history of Lam a South Sudanese refugee, the paper explores the different practices of future-making they employ prior to and during the coronavirus pandemic. Based on twelve months of ethnographic research in Kakuma Refugee Camp Kenya and utilizing online ethnographic methods during the coronavirus pandemic, I demonstrate how combining research methods helped expose the multiple coexisting logics of containment active in Kakuma Refugee Camp. Doing so, this paper contributes to debates on future-making by illustrating its collectivist formations practiced with networks of kin and friends or used to imagine wider national futures of a state. Moreover, the paper outlines how humanitarian and state actors who enforced containment draw upon different power-inflected logics to guide their practices and relations with people on the move.
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