Search results for “[Subject: refugees]”

• Author(s): Christopher Thao Vang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies Almost no one in the West had heard of the Hmong before National Geog...

• Author(s): Pamela Ballinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIn The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range o...

• Author(s): Sarah Kenyon Lischer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacySince the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Afric...

• Author(s): Janusz Cisek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social The end of World War II found a devastated Poland under Soviet occupation. Many Poles--those...

• Author(s): Collectif Argos • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Heartbreaking stories and pictures documenting the phenomenon of populations displaced b...

• Author(s): Ozlem Ezer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's StudiesBased on original interviews conducted across three continents, this book relates the experiences of nine Syrian wom...

• Author(s): Mark Strecker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I World War I began in August 1914--the United States did not enter the conflict until April 1917. During t...

• Author(s): Larry Clinton Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia The fall of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to communist armies in 1975 caused a massive outpouring of...

• Author(s): Eleanor Herz Swent • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies & Pacific When Eleanor Swent began teaching English as a Second Lang...

• Author(s): George Hendrick | Willene Hendrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Slavery Thousands of black people sought refuge in Canada before the U.S. Civil War. While most refugees en...

• Author(s): Hazel J. Lang • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: GeneralAn examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom have f...

• Author(s): Sarah Streed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major citie...

• Author(s): Jennifer Erickson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to th...

• Author(s): Nghia M. Vo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia The biggest diaspora in Vietnamese history occurred between 1975 and 1992, when more than two million people...

• Author(s): Edith Pilcher • Publisher: Fall Creek Books • Publisher Imprint: Fall Creek Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,Castorland, "the land of beavers," is a vast tract on the Black River between ...

• Author(s): Matthew R. Walsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, tortu...

• Author(s): Majok Marier | Estelle Ford-Williamson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General One of the most detailed books on the Lost Boys of Sudan since South Sudan became the w...

• Author(s): Lucy Mayblin • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International • BISAC: Colonialism & Post-ColonialismThis book critiques existing literature on the response of Wester...

• Author(s): Catherine Gomes | Brenda S. a. Yeoh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book uses digital ethnography to study cr...

• Author(s): Helen Fielding • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralDisillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-some...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Ralph | Sheera | Stephanie Olinga-Shannon • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaFifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about c...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Leora Auslander | Tara Zahra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralThe book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Sheila Kohler • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryAn erotic tale of passion and power and their dangerous consequences. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is n...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Norman L. Zucker | Naomi Flint Zucker • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationThis work provides an examination of US refugee policy since the 1960s, particularly as it has been appl...