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Conflict and forced migration : escape from oppression and stories of survival, resilience, and hope
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This timely collection brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, ...
This timely collection brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, to explore the current face of migration conflict.
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- Creator
- edited by Gil Richard Musolf
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781838673956, 1838673954, 9781838673932, 1838673938, 1838673946
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Front Cover -- Conflict and Forced Migration: Escape from Oppression and Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Refugees -- Refugee Status and Resettlement in the United States -- References -- Part I. The Social Structure of Conflict -- Chapter 1 The Asylum-seeking Process: An American Tradition -- Asylum Seekers -- Affirmative Asylum -- Defensive Asylum and Removal Proceedings -- Expedited Removal -- Appearance Rates in Immigration Court -- Detention -- Central America, Asylum, and Zero Tolerance -- Immigration Court's Priority Dockets -- Blocking Legal Entry -- Denying Asylum to Victims of Domestic and Gang Violence -- Zero Tolerance, Criminalization, and Operation Streamline -- Unauthorized Migrants' Crime Rates -- Separation of Children from Parents at the US-Mexico Border -- The Reunification Order -- Unaccompanied Minors (UACs) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Appendix: List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 2 The Crisis in Darfur and the Social Structure of Global Climate Change, Race, and Gender -- Introduction -- Climate-based Violence in Darfur -- Climate Change as a Social Structure -- Agency in Confronting Climate Violence and Climate Change in Darfur -- Conclusion -- Race-based Violence in Darfur -- Race as a Social Structure -- Agency in Confronting Race-based Violence in Darfur -- Conclusion -- Gender-based Violence in Darfur -- Gender as a Social Structure -- Agency and Gender-based Violence -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Transnational Solidarity of Circassians in-between Caucasus and Middle East -- Introduction -- Method of Research -- Theoretical Framework -- Migrant Networks and Agency-structure in Migration -- Historical Background -- Partitioning of Refugees as Structural Condition
- Emergence of Syrian Circassians as Actors with Their Own Agency -- Relation with Homeland as Social Interaction -- Ba'ath Regime, 2011 Uprising and Syrian Circassians in the Current Crisis -- Transnational Solidarity among Circassians after the Syrian Crisis -- The New Forced Migration Experience of Syrian Circassians and Transnational Solidarity -- Return to the Homeland as a Structural Condition -- Tentative Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II. Voices of Survival, Resilience, and Hope -- Chapter 4 The Rock in the Stream -- The Lucky One -- The Rock of Our Family -- The War in the Faces of the People -- Coming to America -- The Rude Awakening -- A Knight to the Rescue -- The System -- Trash Turns to Treasure -- The Black Sheep of the Family -- The Dream that Was Never Over -- The Big Apple -- The African Proverb -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 5 From War to Peace: Loved Back to Life! -- My Feelings about the Serbs as a Child Growing up -- My Career Journey: Paper Trails … My Challenges at Work! -- Social Life Outside of Work and in College -- Challenges in the US -- Hopes for Kosovo -- Chapter 6 Bendito Infierno -- Leaving Home -- The Desert Crossing -- Primero Dios -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Falling in Love with a Refugee -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Re-thinking the "Starting Point" for Research: The Challenges and Possibilities for Building Reflexive Knowledge ... -- Introduction -- Shifting from Experiential Knowledge to Reflexive Knowledge -- The "Generous" Canadian Immigration Regime and the Limits of Experiential Knowledge -- Looking beyond the Digital Story and Long-term Reflexive Knowledge Building -- Reflexive Ways of Knowing Anchored by Feminist Standpoint Epistemology -- Rethinking the Starting Point for Critical and Participatory Research -- Recognition of Historical, Economic and Political Conditions
- The Co-construction of Knowledge -- Ongoing Critical Self-reflection -- Toward an Ethics of Accountability -- Engaging with CPAR Principles by Fostering Empowerment with MSM Latino Migrants -- Situating Myself as Researcher -- My Starting Points for Research with MSM Latino Migrants -- The Challenges and Possibilities of Co-constructing and Situating Knowledge -- Integrating a Critical Perspective into a Community-based and Participatory Research Project -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography -- Part III. Humanitarian Advocacy -- Chapter 9 The Social Construction of Child Protection in an Anti-immigration Context -- Introduction -- Constructivist Approach to Child Protection and Immigrants -- The Origins of Child Protection in the US -- The Intersection of Racism, Xenophobia, and the Child Welfare System -- A History of Forced Separations of Children from Their Families -- Forced Separations of Latinx Children from Their Families -- Immigration Policy and Child Welfare Practice -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 The Children Left Behind -- Introduction -- My Background -- Assessment of Trauma -- Children: The Social Context -- Children's Voices -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Reference -- Chapter 11 A Heart Shaped Like Syria -- The Shock -- The War -- The Idea -- The Action -- Project A: Awareness and Scholarship/Educating Our Community -- Local Outreach: Syrian Students in Schools -- Education Outreach on the UE Campus: The Scholars for Syria Speaker Series -- Movie Screenings -- The Travel Ban -- Organizational Recognition -- Curriculum Development -- National and Global Outreach: Extending Our Hands and Hearts -- Books Not Bombs -- Paper Airplanes -- Project B: Connection and Scholarship/Reaching Our Community -- Media Outreach -- Employment -- Project C: Fundraising and Scholarship/Supporting Syrians Home and Abroad -- The Agency
- The Bond -- References -- Part IV. Art and Hope -- Chapter 12 The Art of Re-Bildung the Refugee: Agency Through Literary Structure in the Bildungsroman -- Structure -- Scale -- Reach -- Story Becomes Reality -- Today's Dominant Story -- Subject to Change -- Agency -- Literary Intervention -- The Novel Education of the Bildungsroman -- Layers and Literary Ethics -- Writing the Book on Refugee and Forced Migration Experience: A Lesson in Form -- Freedoms of Fiction, Danger of "Facts" -- Reading the Audience: Opening Time -- Reverse Operations and Narrative Twists: A Telling Story through Story-telling -- Building the Refugee and Forced Migration Subject into (Mosaic)Being -- Making Use of Narrative Agency: What Story Allows for the Subject -- Step 1: Release - Ismet Prcic's (… shards…): A Novel -- Step 2: Expression - Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis (1 + 2: The Story of a Childhood & -- The Story of a Return) -- Step 3: Connection - Rabih Alameddine's The Hakawati: A Story -- Beyond the Page: Possibilities of Encounter and Where the Story Goes from Here -- References -- Chapter 13 The Syrian Refugee Art Project -- Index