Download or read book Seeking Refuge written by María Cristina García and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the 20th-century Central American migration, and how domestic and foreign policy interests shaped the asylum policies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
Download or read book Solito Solita written by Steven Mayers and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. Fifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico, how they crossed the borders, and for some, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. In an era of fear, xenophobia, and outright lies, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment, bravery and resilience, hypocrisy and hope? They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents, Solito, Solita’s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. This collection includes the story of Adrián, from Guatemala City, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. He refused to join a gang, rode across Mexico atop cargo trains, crossed the US border as a minor, and was handcuffed and thrown into ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. We hear the story of Rosa, a Salvadoran mother fighting to save her life as well as her daughter’s after death squads threatened her family. Together they trekked through the jungles on the border between Guatemala and Mexico, where masked men assaulted them. We also meet Gabriel, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States, and through study, legal support and work, is now attending UC Berkeley.
Download or read book The Other Side written by Juan Pablo Villalobos and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos explores illegal immigration with this emotionally raw and timely nonfiction book about ten Central American teens and their journeys to the United States. You can't really tell what time it is when you're in the freezer. Every year, thousands of migrant children and teens cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The journey is treacherous and sometimes deadly, but worth the risk for migrants who are escaping gang violence and poverty in their home countries. And for those refugees who do succeed? They face an immigration process that is as winding and multi-tiered as the journey that brought them here. In this book, award-winning Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos strings together the diverse experiences of eleven real migrant teenagers, offering readers a beginning road map to issues facing the region. These timely accounts of courage, sacrifice, and survival—including two fourteen-year-old girls forming a tenuous friendship as they wait in a frigid holding cell, a boy in Chicago beginning to craft his future while piecing together his past in El Salvador, and cousins learning to lift each other up through angry waters—offer a rare and invaluable window into the U.S.–Central American refugee crisis. In turns optimistic and heartbreaking, The Other Side balances the boundless hope at the center of immigration with the weight of its risks and repercussions. Here is a necessary read for young people on both sides of the issue.
Download or read book Central America written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sourcebook on Central American Refugee Policy written by Milton H. Jamail and published by School. This book was released on 1985 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of almost 800 entries includes books, newspaper, magazine and journal articles, unpublished papers, government documents, human rights reports, newsletters and bulletins, and other print material which was gathered by students and faculty during the course of a research seminar on the topic at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin during 1983-1984. The bibliography does not claim to be an exhaustive listing of resources on Central American refugee issues. Although there was an attempt to gather as much information as possible, much of the material reflects a Texas focus. The major sections of this publication include: 1) books, manuscripts, unpublished papers, and church, government and human rights reports; 2) magazine and journal articles; 3) newspaper articles, editorials and statements; and 4) newsletters, bulletins, other reports and resources. Within each section, entries are arranged alphabetically first by title (when there is no author given), then alphabetically by author. Finally there is an index by subject and country. This publication reflects the combined efforts of the LBJ School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas, and the Central America Resource Center, a nonprofit educational and information Center located in Austin.
Download or read book Media Central American Refugees and the U S Border Crisis written by Robin Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the history, conventions, and uses of security discourses, and argues that such language and media frames distort information and mislead the public, misidentify the focus of concern, and omit narratives able to recognize the causes and solutions to humanitarian crises. What has been identified as a crisis at the border is better understood as an on-going crisis of violence, building over decades, that has forced migrants from their homes in the countries of the Northern Triangle. Authors Robin Andersen and Adrian Bergmann look back to U.S. military policies in the region and connect this legacy to the cross-border development of transnational gangs, government corruption, and on-going violence that often targets environmental and legal defenders. They argue that the discourses of demonization and securitization only help perpetuate brutality in both Central America and the United States, especially in the desert borderlands of the southwest. They offer ways in which stories of migrants can be reframed within the language of justice, empathy, and humanitarianism. A compelling examination of language, media, and politics, this book is both highly contemporary and widely applicable, perfect for students and scholars of global media, political communications, and their many intersections.
Download or read book Immigration from Central America written by Richard Feinberg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugee Problems in Central America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central American Migration written by Linda S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conditions Creating Refugees and U S Asylum Seekers from Central America written by Thomas J. Schulz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Central Americans written by Faren Maree Bachelis and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Central Americans, factors encouraging their emigration to North America, and their acceptance as an ethnic group there.
Download or read book This Ground is Holy written by Ignatius Bau and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts the development in the United States of the 'sanctuary movement', a loose association of churches which accord refuge and legal and social services to central American refugees. United States immigration and refugee law is succinctly described, with due emphasis given to the 1951 Convention the principle of non-refoulement and the protection required by the 1949 Geneva Red Cross Conventions. The low refugee recognition rate for central Americans is identified as one reason giving rise to the need for extra-statutory refuge. The resulting confrontation between church and state is discribed, with reference to the prosecution and trials of various sanctuary workers. The author also assesses the legal implications for those helping 'illegal' refugees, who may be indicted for harbouring, concealing, shielding from detection or transportation; possible defences are suggested. Three chapters examine the history of sanctuary, as an ancient, biblical tradition; as a privileged refuge established in England in early years in reaction to the practice of blood revenge, and as reflected in elements of United States history, for example, in regard to the 'underground railroad' for fugitive slaves and in various responses to war resisters during the Vietnam period. The author concludes with the suggestion that the authority of the sanctuary novement today is moral, rather than legal; he notes the grassroots origins of the movement and the fact that the beneficiaries today are refugees rather than criminals.
Download or read book The Central American Refugees written by Elizabeth G. Ferris and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Solutions for Central American Refugee Problems written by Jonathan Moore and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central American Asylum seekers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin America and Refugee Protection written by Liliana Lyra Jubilut and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. It analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region. Drawing from multidisciplinary texts from both leading academics and practitioners, this comprehensive, innovative and highly topical book adopts an analytical framework to understand and improve Latin America’s protection of refugees.
Download or read book Sanctuary written by Gary MacEóin and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of 20 essays is the fruit of a two-day Sanctuary symposium sponsored by the Tucson Ecumenical Council's Task Force for Central America. In addition to the principal presentations of that Symposium, the book contains a history of the Sanctuary Movement, an appendix on how to establish a sanctuary, and an analysis by Dr Elie Wiesel on what it means to be a refugee. The essays, by scholars, refugees, and sanctuary workers, reflect the struggle to be loyal to visions of faith with committed action that challenges the 'principalities and powers' of our day. The book is divided into six themes. In the first, there is Dr Wiesel's speech and a brief history of the Sanctuary Movement in the United States since 1979 involving Central American refugees and their struggles with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The emphasis is mostly on El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and the US involvement. Part Two treats the theological and biblical perspectives on sanctuary from Calvinist, Hebraic and other points of view. The third section traces the historical perspective on sanctuary and Central America. Part Four analyses the ethical, legal and human rights perspectives on sanctuary. Part Five includes three speeches by refugees themselves including one on being a minister and a refugee. The last section deals with the specific challenge to the American conscience of the refugee question and the Sanctuary Movement.
