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

Sommario

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

Info autore

Thomas, Joe

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas, Joe Thomas, Thomas Joe
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 31.12.2017
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali
• EAN: 9781138707290
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70729-0
• Numero di pagine: 268
• Serie: Routledge Revivals
• Categorie: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Hong Kong, Society and culture: general, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, British Immigration Policy, humanitarian intervention critique, human rights abuses analysis, Vietnamese asylum seekers, power dynamics in detention, socio-cultural impact of refugee detention, refugee camp ethnography