Download or read book Iranian Refugees in Transit written by Maral Jefroudi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the community of Iranians in transit after the 1979 revolution. Iranian Refugees in Transit unveils the rich history of political engagement among Iranian refugees before their arrival in Turkey, contextualised within Turkey's own landscape of political and ethnic conflicts. Jefroudi expertly examines the intersectional distribution of precarity among refugees. By bringing together interviews with refugees from the period, analyzing cultural products by and on them, and tracing their footsteps in newspapers and scholarly literature, this book fills a significant gap in Turkey's migration history. Through a critical historical analysis of the international asylum system, Iranian Refugees in Transit offers valuable insights into the dynamics of the current 'refugee crisis'.
Download or read book Iranian Refugees in Transit written by Maral Jefroudi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the community of Iranians in transit after the 1979 revolution. Iranian Refugees in Transit unveils the rich history of political engagement among Iranian refugees before their arrival in Turkey, contextualised within Turkey's own landscape of political and ethnic conflicts. Jefroudi expertly examines the intersectional distribution of precarity among refugees. By bringing together interviews with refugees from the period, analyzing cultural products by and on them, and tracing their footsteps in newspapers and scholarly literature, this book fills a significant gap in Turkey's migration history. Through a critical historical analysis of the international asylum system, Iranian Refugees in Transit offers valuable insights into the dynamics of the current 'refugee crisis'.
Download or read book Waiting in Transit written by Elif Sari and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is an ethnographic study of queer asylum from the Middle East to North America. It draws on two years of fieldwork in Turkey with Iranian LGBTQ refugees awaiting resettlement to the United States and Canada. As these countries have closed their borders since 2015, refugees remain stuck small Turkish towns with uncertain legal status. My dissertation explores how the carceral politics of asylum are shaped by uncertain waiting, spatial confinement, and precarious material conditions, and how refugees develop everyday tactics to cope with violence, precarity, and uncertainty. This study makes three theoretical contributions. First, it extends the scholarship on asylum and humanitarianism beyond nation-state and legal frameworks. Tracing refugees' interactions with various state and non-state actors at national, international, and diasporic scales, I demonstrate how categories of 'authentic' and 'deserving' refugees-and accompanying forms of care and control-are produced and governed transnationally, on the one hand, and negotiated through social encounters between refugees and decision-makers in informal and quasi-legal zones, on the other. Second, as opposed to dominant representations of queer asylum as a journey from violence to safety and freedom, my dissertation reveals the ubiquity of violence in the transnational asylum system. I analyze how North American countries' restrictive border policies, international humanitarian organizations' indeterminate resettlement practices, and Turkey's securitization of refugees' mobilities and labor create multiple forms of economic, sexual, and emotional violence in refugees' lives. Third, rather than treating waiting merely as a governmental tool or an empty time, my dissertation demonstrates that refugees turn waiting into an active time-space in which they refashion their subjectivities, establish ethno-sexual economies, form queer kin structures, and cultivate a queer ethics of everyday life based on shared practices of love, care, and support. While refugees' creative and resilient work of self-making, kin-making, and community-making help them cope with the violent conditions of waiting, the same conditions also compel refugees to invest in the structures of competition and gatekeeping to facilitate their access to scarce resources. This paradoxical dialectic both manifests the productive and violent nature of asylum and disrupts idealized narratives of community, solidarity, and queer ethics.
Download or read book Transit Migration in Turkey written by Migration Information Programme and published by International Organization for Migration (IOM). This book was released on 1996 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey has recently become a transit country for migrants, especially for asylum seekers from the Middle East intending to reach western and northern countries. This timely publication examines the long, costly and uncertain migratory process through Turkey that migrants endure, their motivations, their lives during the transit period in Turkey, and their expectations, as well as the intervention of traffickers and smugglers.
Download or read book Iranian Immigrants and Refugees in Norway written by Zahra Kamalkhani and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis, submitted to the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Bergen, focuses on the movement of Iranians from their home country to Norway and their settlement in Norway. The author begins by tracing the development of Iranian migration and the situation of those who finally came to Norway, both immigrants and refugees, during the early seventies and the late seventies and early eighties. Within various categories, case studies are given of immigrants and refugees during these periods. A separate chapter treats the Iranian Baha'I, compares their adaptation and integration to that of the Shii sub-group, and examines the pattern of intra- and inter-ethnic group relations. The author analyses the key aspects of the integration and disintegration of the identities of those Iranians who establish marriage ties with Norwegians, as well as intra-Iranian community relations. As for refugees, the author discusses the Iranian refugees as newcomers, describing their life experiences after arrival in Norway with particular emphasis on the Bergen area. A theoretical chapter looks at the problem of (socio-) cultural disqualification and requalification in the integration process and gives several examples of the problems of social mobility.
Download or read book Troubled Transit written by Antje Missbach and published by ISEAS - YUSOF ISHAK INSTITUTE. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubled Transit considers the situation of asylum seekers stuck in limbo in Indonesia from a number of perspectives. It presents not only the narratives of many transit migrants but also the perceptions of Indonesian authorities and of representatives of international and non-government organizations responsible for the care of transiting asylum seekers. Fascinated by the extraordinary and seemingly limitless resilience shown by asylum seekers during their often lengthy and dangerous journeys, the author highlights one particular fragment of their journeys — their time in Indonesia, which many expect to be the last stepping stone to a new life. While they long for their new life to unfold, most asylum seekers become embroiled in the complexities of living in transit. Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is more than a location where people spend time waiting; it is a nation state that interacts with transiting asylum seekers and formulates policies that have a profound impact on their experience in transit there. Troubled Transit tries to explain the complexities faced by the transiting migrants within the context of the Indonesian government and its political challenges, including its relationship with Australia. The Australia-centric view of recent asylum seeker issues has tended to ignore the larger socio-political context of the migratory routes and the perspectives of transit states towards asylum seekers stuck in transit. This book hopes to direct the Australia-centric gaze northwards to take Indonesian policies and policymaking into account, thereby giving Indonesia more relevance as a transit country and as an important partner in regional protection schemes and migration management. Even though some Indonesian policies and practices are less than favourable for asylum seekers, and even reprehensible from a human rights perspective, more attention must be paid to ongoing developments that impact on transiting asylum seekers in Indonesia if any of the hardships they suffer there are to be alleviated.
Download or read book Making Spaces through Infrastructure written by Marian Burchardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.
Download or read book U S Immigration Policy Regarding Iranian Nationals 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 1981 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shelter from the Holocaust written by Mark Edele and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.
Download or read book World Refugee Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kolor Journal on moving communities 2004 Vol 4 N 1 written by and published by Garant. This book was released on with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religious Minorities Migration from Iran written by S. Behnaz Hosseini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the methods of marginalization that authorities use against religious minorities, and the subsequent mechanisms these minority groups develop in order to survive. This study focuses on the relationship between the state and non-Muslim religious minorities (Christian, Sabean-Mandaean, Bahai, Yarsan- Jewish, and Zoroastrian) in order to explore the dynamics of this extremism and its impact, and what the response of religious minorities has been. The conceptual framework of the study provides an introductory survey of Iranian politics in the twentieth century, offers a brief synopsis of the role of non-Muslims in Islamic majority countries, presents the views of the non-Muslims held before revolution in the time of Pahlavi king in Iran and the Shi’a revolutionary ideologues and, finally, identifies several important issues in this research.
Download or read book Tehran Children A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey written by Mikhal Dekel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story—the extraordinary saga of two-thirds of Polish Jewish survivors—has never been fully told. Author Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel’s father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated to Iran, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community. Months later, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine, where, at the endpoint of their thirteen-thousand-mile journey, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the “Tehran Children” was far from straightforward, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel. Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, a Russian oligarch, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity. The experiences her father and aunt endured, along with so many others, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers, profoundly and permanently, during and after the war. With literary grace, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust, whose focus is not the concentration camp, but the refugee, and whose center is not Europe, but Central Asia and the Middle East.
Download or read book Refugee Rights in Iran written by Shīrīn ʻIbādī and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, lawyer, and human rights activist, Shirin Ebadi examines the legal aspects of life as a refugee in Iran. Controversial issues such as the right to education, property, and inheritance are addressed in detail through a comparative study of Iranian and international refugee law. This book will be of great interest to anyone who helps states and to international organizations that formulate laws that can accommodate the needs of refugees. Shirin Ebadi was the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer, and activist, she has dedicated her life to fighting for basic human rights, especially those of women and children, both within Iran and abroad.
Download or read book Managing Migration written by Philip L. Martin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.
Download or read book Crossing and Controlling Borders written by Mechthild Baumann and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the impact of border controls on migrants’ journeys in two major areas of immigration: the European Union and the United States of America. In order to show the linkages between border control policies and migratory practices, the book combines empirical insights from ethnography with approaches from political science. Describing migrants’ realities reveals that the impact of border control policies goes beyond the actual border area affecting many lives and states.
