Urban Refugees - Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy

Zusatztext "Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection! Services and Policy is the first edited volume to tackle the topic of urban refugees and their survival ''between a rock and a hard place". (?) this edited collection serves not only as a useful introduction to the phenomenon of urban refugees but will also be relevant to those with a particular interest in the refugee situation in one of the cities or countries covered." - Neil James Wilson! City University of London Informationen zum Autor Koichi Koizumi, Professor in the Faculty of International Relations at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo. Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. Klappentext Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon of refugee flows into urban settings, repercussions for those seeking protection, and the agencies and organizations tasked to assist them. Zusammenfassung Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Between a rock and a hard place: Urban refugees in a global context 1. Demonstrable needs: Protest, politics and refugees in Cairo 2. Casamance refugees in urban locations of The Gambia 3. The politics of mistrust: Congolese refugees and the institutions providing refugee protection in Kampala, Uganda 4. Increasing urban refugee protection in Nairobi: Political will or additional resources? 5. Practices of reception and integration of urban refugees: The case of Ravenna, Italy 6. Surviving the city: Refugees from Burma in New Delhi 7. Life in limbo: Unregistered urban refugees on the Thai–Burma Border 8. Urban refugees and the UNHCR in Kuala Lumpur: Dependency, assistance and survival 9. The Japanese pilot resettlement programme: Identifying constraints to domestic integration of refugees from Burma 10. Coping as an asylum seeker in Japan: Burmese in Shinjuku, Tokyo 11. Postscript: ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Koichi Koizumi, Koichi Hoffstaedter Koizumi
• Collaboration: Gerhard Hoffstaedter (Editeur), Gerhard (University of Queensland Hoffstaedter (Editeur), Hoffstaedter Gerhard (Editeur), Koichi Koizumi (Editeur), Koichi (Daito Bunka University Koizumi (Editeur), Koizumi Koichi (Editeur)
• Edition: Routledge Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 13.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138839809
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83980-9
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 20 mm
• Thèmes: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics; Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, International Relations, Interdisciplinary studies, Human Geography, Urban communities, Regional Geography