Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong - A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong

List of contents

List of Figures, Photos and Tables, Preface, List of Abbreviations, 1. Introduction, 2. Understanding Refugee Detention: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, 3. Options and Choices, 4. Personal Agony: A Commodity in Humanitarian Politics, 5. The Power of the Host, 6. The Structure of Powerlessness, 7. Violence in the Camps, 8. The Silence of the Power Brokers, 9. Solving the Refugee Problem or a Planned Ethnocide?, Bibliography

About the author

Thomas, Joe

Summary

This title was first published in 2000: An ethnographic inquiry into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese refugees and its outcome in Hong Kong.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas, Joe Thomas, Thomas Joe
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138707290
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70729-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Hong Kong, Society and culture: general, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum