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Civil and political rights in Japan : a tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley /

Table of Contents: “…Stratification of rights and entitlements among refugees and other displaced persons in Japan; Categories of forced migrants in Japan; Convention refugees; Indo-Chinese refugees and resettlement refugees; Persons permitted to stay on humanitarian grounds; Lawfully staying asylum seekers; Unlawfully staying asylum seekers…”
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Other immigrants the global origins of the American people / by Reimers, David M.

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings, 1550-1900 -- Asians in Hawaii and the United States -- North to America, 1900-1940 -- El Norte: Mexicans, 1940-present -- Central and South Americans -- Across the Pacific again, East Asian immigrants -- Across the Pacific again, South Asian immigrants -- Middle Easterners -- The new Black immigrants -- Refugees: Cubans and Asians.…”
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Hiroshima the world's bomb / by Rotter, Andrew Jon

Table of Contents: “…The world's atom -- Great Britain : refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb -- Japan and Germany : paths not taken -- The United States I : imagining and building the bomb -- The United States II : using the bomb -- Japan : the atomic bombs and war's end -- The Soviet Union : the bomb and the Cold War -- The world's bomb -- Epilogue : nightmares and hopes.…”
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Race and racism Canada's challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Halli -- Individual versus collective rights in Quebec / Joseph O'Shea -- A model of refugee resettlement / Nancy Higgitt -- Economic adaptation of Asian immigrants / Ravi B.P. …”
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Arabs at home and in the world : human rights, gender politics, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…5 Theorizing sexual violence against men in the Middle East and North african region as gender-related persecution under refugee and asylum law6 Gender, Islamophobia, and refugee exceptionalism; 7 Moroccan women migrants in Europe: a transformative experience; Bibliography; Index…”
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Race and racism Canada's challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Halli -- Individual versus collective rights in Quebec / Joseph O'Shea -- A model of refugee resettlement / Nancy Higgitt -- Economic adaptation of Asian immigrants / Ravi B.P. …”
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The voice of the poor in the Middle Ages : an anthology of documents from the Cairo Geniza / by Cohen, Mark R., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…PART ONE: LETTERS ABOUT THE POOR AND ABOUT CHARITY: Introduction -- Basic themes -- Taxonomy: structure and conjunction -- The foreign poor -- Indigent captives and refugees -- Debt and poll tax -- Women and poverty -- Letters regarding public charity -- PART TWO: CHARITY LISTS: Alms lists -- Donor lists -- PART THREE: EPILOGUE: Poverty and charity in the Fourteenth Century.…”
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Mothers without citizenship Asian immigrant families and the consequences of welfare reform / by Fujiwara, Lynn, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : sanctioning immigrants : "ending welfare as we know it" -- New nativism and welfare reform: Asian immigrants as racialized foreigners -- Welfare reform and the politics of citizenship -- Refugees betrayed -- The rush for citizenship : naturalization as a technocratic apparatus of exclusion -- On not making ends meet : mothers without citizenship -- The devaluation of immigrant families -- Conclusion : the continuing significance of racialized citizenship.…”
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Making film and television histories Australia and New Zealand /

Table of Contents: “…Explorations of gender and sexuality -- section 9. Immigrants, refugees and multicultural narratives -- section 10. …”
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The Egyptian press and coverage of local and international events by El-Bendary, Mohamed, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The Egyptian press -- Theoretical perspectives -- Protesters in Pharaohs' land : Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Sudanese refugees riot -- Who is responsible? characterization of the Red Sea ferry disaster in Egyptian magazines -- Images of the 2006 Lebanese War in al-Ahram, al-Hayat, and Asharq al-Awsat -- Rising tension in U.S.…”
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The two Reformations the journey from the last days to the new world / by Oberman, Heiko Augustinus

Table of Contents: “…The gathering storm -- Luther and the via moderna: the philosophical backdrop of the reformation breakthrough -- Martin Luther: a friar in the lion's den -- Reformation: end time, modern times, future times -- From Luther to Hitler -- The controversy over images at the time of the Reformation -- Toward the recovery of the historical Calvin -- Toward a new map of Reformation Europe -- The cutting edge: the Reformation of the refugees -- Calvin's legacy: its greatness and limitations.…”
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The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Quaker brotherhood interracial activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 / by Austin, Allan W.

Table of Contents: “…Friendly principle of brotherhood -- Let's do away with walls: the AFSC's Interracial Section and race work in the United States, 1924-1929 -- Bridging race and peace: the AFSC in good times and bad, 1927-1931 -- Intelligent leadership in the cause of racial brotherhood: Quakers, social science, and the AFSC's interracial activism in the 1930s -- Refugees from abroad and at home: the hostel method and victims of war -- From race relations to community relations -- Race and reconciliation at mid-century.…”
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Corpus-based analysis of ideological bias : migration in the British press / by Islentyeva, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Language Corpora and Media Discourse on Migration -- Ideology in the Contemporary Media: Bias in the British Press -- Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis: Data Collection and Corpus Construction -- Discursive Representations of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants, and Migrants (RASIM) Prior to the EU Referendum -- Discursive Representations of Migrants after the EU Referendum -- The English Garden: A Metaphor for English Society -- The Metaphorical Motif of War in the British Press -- Conclusion: Principles of Cohesion and Evaluation in Newspaper Texts.…”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy Migration, Governance, Identities /

Table of Contents: “…Gozdziak -- 3: Child Refugees and National Boundaries: Marie Louise Seeberg -- 4: South Sudanese Diaspora Children: Contested Notions of Childhood, Uprootedness, and Belonging among Young Refugees in the US: Marisa O. …”
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Natalija life in the Balkan powder keg, 1880-1956 / by Matić Zrnić, Natalija, 1880-1956

Table of Contents: “…Years of hope, 1880-1911 -- Childhood -- Learning motherhood -- Life and politics in small-town Serbia -- The family moves south -- The Balkan wars -- Years of war, 1914-1924 -- The war begins: July 1914 to October 1915 -- Refugees: October 1915 to January 1916 -- Life under occupation: 1916 -- Resistance: 1917 -- Endings: 1918 -- Beginnings: 1919 -- Years of disappointment, 1924-1956 -- A new country, a new life: 1924-1927 -- Europe in decline: 1932-1939 -- War again: 1939-1945 -- Twilight.…”
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Culture and psychopathology : a guide to clinical assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Psychopathology and treatment considerations of refugees / J. David Kinzie -- 6. Cultures of addictions / William Haning -- 7. …”
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