Tag: Asylum

Identities on Trial in the United States Asylum Seekers from Asia


Free Download ChorSwang Ngin, "Identities on Trial in the United States: Asylum Seekers from Asia "
English | ISBN: 1498574734 | 2018 | 266 pages | EPUB | 814 KB
ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum-seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate of Islam, several victims of ethnic and sexual violence from Indonesia, and the escape of men and women from China’s draconian one-child policy, among others. Joann Yeh, an immigration attorney and contributor to this work, examines asylum seeking in a Mandarin-speaking Californian community and discuss the failure of the United States’ quasi-judicial immigration system, highlighting "asylum lawfare" in courtroom dramas and arguing for an anthropological advantage in asylum preparation. This book is an essential text for policy makers, students, lawyers, activists, and those engaged with migration studies seeking a more just asylum outcome.

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The Asylum


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English | 2014 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0544227727, 0544003470 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
"Harwood, master of creeping Victorian horror, does it again . . . Twisted in every sense of the word and wonderfully atmospheric."-Booklist

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Asylum Speakers Stories of Migration from the Humans Behind the Headlines [Audiobook]


Free Download Asylum Speakers: Stories of Migration from the Humans Behind the Headlines (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BPF2DQF3 | 2023 | 6 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Jaz O’Hara
Narrator: Jaz O’Hara

Meet 31 extraordinary people-from refugees and asylum seekers to those on the frontline helping them-and hear about the life-changing journeys they have made. We are currently experiencing the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time. Across the world, from Ukraine to Sudan to Mexico, people are forced to flee their homes every day due to conflict, climate change and persecution. And devastatingly, the scale of this crisis is only predicted to get worse: by 2050, 1 in 10 people on earth will be displaced. Having met and interviewed hundreds of people impacted by migration, charity founder Jaz O’Hara shares 31 remarkable and inspiring stories, from refugees to volunteers working on the frontline: ordinary people with extraordinary experiences. Here are the voices that often go unheard: the humans behind the statistics and the headlines. Asylum Speakers will transcend borders, nationalities, religions, and languages, connecting you to the people with whom we share this world.

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Asylum and Belonging through Collective Playwriting How much home does a person need


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031248074 | 267 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This book explores the notion of home in the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, and asks how home and belonging can be rethought through the act of creative practices and collective writing with refugees and asylum seekers. Where Giorgio Agamben calls the refugee ‘the figure of our time’, this study places the question of home among those who experience its ruptures. Veering away from treating the refugee as a conceptual figure, the lived experiences and creative expressions of seeking asylum in Denmark and the United Kingdom are explored instead. The study produces a theoretical framework around home by drawing from a cross-disciplinary field of existential and political philosophy, narratology, performance studies and anthropology. Moreover, it argues that theatre studies is uniquely positioned to understand the performative and storied aspects of seeking asylum and the compromises of belonging made through the asylum process.

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