Download or read book Refugee Resettlement in the Heartland of America written by Robert Funseth and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement in the Heartland of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1986* with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrants Outside Megalopolis written by Richard C. Jones and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants Outside Megalopolis documents the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in the United States, presenting eleven case studies of immigrant groups in widely differing parts of the country. These case studies highlight both the new cultural landscapes that are giving Americans a world geography lesson, and the tales of accommodation and acceptance, of rejection and discrimination, that suggest that the process of social adjustment is not yet complete.
Download or read book After the Last Border written by Jessica Goudeau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas. Mu Naw, a Christian from Myanmar struggling to put down roots with her family, was accepted after decades in a refugee camp at a time when America was at its most open to displaced families; and Hasna, a Muslim from Syria, agrees to relocate as a last resort for the safety of her family--only to be cruelly separated from her children by a sudden ban on refugees from Muslim countries. Writer and activist Jessica Goudeau tracks the human impacts of America's ever-shifting refugee policy as both women narrowly escape from their home countries and begin the arduous but lifesaving process of resettling in Austin, Texas--a city that would show them the best and worst of what America has to offer. After the Last Border situates a dramatic, character-driven story within a larger history--the evolution of modern refugee resettlement in the United States, beginning with World War II and ending with current closed-door policies--revealing not just how America's changing attitudes toward refugees has influenced policies and laws, but also the profound effect on human lives.
Download or read book Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America written by Ann Corcoran and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "U.S. refugee resettlement policy badly needs comprehensive review and a major overhaul. Ann Corcoran, whose focus on this issue long has been featured at the 'Refugee Resettlement Watch' website, here turns her scholarship to a superb study of how refugees are selected and who decides which refugees and how many come to the U.S., as well as where they are placed and who pays the bills for them. Equally as important, she reveals how collaboration among the UN, U.S. government, local charities, and churches too often puts local communities on the receiving end of refugee resettlement out of that decision-making process. This is a critical and timely look at a program whose impact increasingly is affecting American society across the nation."--Cover.
Download or read book Safe Haven A History of Refugees in America written by David W. Haines and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of America as land of refuge is vital to American civic consciousness yet over the past seventy years the country has had a complicated and sometimes erratic relationship with its refugee populations. Attitudes and actions toward refugees from the government, voluntary organizations, and the general public have ranged from acceptance to rejection; from well-wrought program efforts to botched policy decisions. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical material, and based on the author s three-decade experience in refugee research and policy, "Safe Haven?" provides an integrated portrait of this crucial component of American immigration and of American engagement with the world. Covering seven decades of immigration history, Haines shows how refugees and their American hosts continue to struggle with national and ethnic identities and the effect this struggle has had on American institutions and attitudes.
Download or read book Refugees in New Destinations and Small Cities written by Pablo S. Bose and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries. No longer are refugees to be found only in major metropolitan areas and gateway cities; instead, they are arriving in small towns, rural areas, rustbelt cities, and suburbs. What happens to them in these new destinations and what happens to the places that receive them? Drawing on a decade’s worth of interviews, surveys, spatial analysis and community-based projects with key informants, Dr Pablo Bose argues that the value of refugee newcomers to their new homes cannot be underestimated.
Download or read book The Stranger Among You written by Kate Rice and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying under the radar of most of the major media is the faith-based refugee resettlement movement. The seemingly divisive cause of refugee resettlement is actually a unifying one, bringing people from across the political spectrum together. Trump voters and Clinton voters, pro-lifers and pro-choicers, the religious and the secular are leaving their red and blue silos to stand in solidarity supporting refugees here in the U.S. This book profiles nine communities, most in the Bible Belt and other red states, and the way they're melding Silicon Valley scale with the words of Matthew, John and Leviticus, to take care of the stranger among us. It's a story of common ground, one that shows that this great nation is not nearly as polarized as we think it is.From the deep south, to the heartland, to cowboy country, you'll meet big-hearted Americans of all faiths-and of no faith-doing incredible work as refugee advocates. A couple of Republican governors-one who rode the anti-Syrian refugee bandwagon, and one who is as pro-refugee as he is pro-Trump-talk about refugee resettlement. Baptists, Catholics, Episcopalians, evangelicals, Jews, Lutherans, Methodists, Mormons, Presbyterians and others open up about leaving their own comfort zones to do this work-and why it is so rewarding. They're disrupters whose literal interpretation of the Bible to help the stranger is driving this movement. They share their highly personal stories of the way they searched their souls to go outside their own familiar world to help those in need. A young mother in Louisville, Kentucky. says "Christ didn't say, 'Make sure you have a great 401(k)!' He said, 'Join me outside the camp.' And this has allowed me to do that." Some followed a convoluted route this work in human rights. A young evangelical whose parents raised her in Morocco, where they taught English, was a freelance journalist in Cairo. She covered the tumult of the Arab Spring, student protests and refugees marooned in no-man's-land. You can almost hear the gunshots in her stories for media outlets as varied as Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and Slate. Jesus, refugees and dusty desert roads leading the stateless only God knows where are mother's milk to her. She found herself back in Arkansas while she and her husband took a hiatus before starting graduate school-and found herself caught up in the refugee resettlement movement. In Des Moines, Iowa, a pastor for an Evangelical Lutheran church talks about how his congregation asked itself who would notice if it closed its doors. To their discomfort, members realized no one would. Today, it is a social justice machine. On Wednesday nights, girls in hijabs run through the church hallways during after-school programs that offer homework tutoring and English lessons. Their parents attend life-skill training that helps families that once lived in huts with mud floors buy homes. A former Guantanamo interrogator who is now director of the Islam and religious freedom team at the Religious Freedom Institute, talks about young evangelicals who come to her because they want to become more involved in Muslim-Christian relations. In Boise, Idaho, Mormon, Lutheran and secular volunteers tutor African refugees in a Jewish synagogue. You'll hear about conservative Christian leaders and their support for refugees and immigrants-and their concerns about the support some of their colleagues have given President Trump. You'll learn about the respect the observant show for refugees for people of all beliefs. They say that Jesus helped everyone, no matter what they believed. And if Jesus didn't make belief a condition of help, why would they, as His followers? It shows that this is a nation of people who can disagree on some issues and still work shoulder to shoulder on a common cause like refugee resettlement.
Download or read book Refugees in America written by Lee T Bycel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not an easy road—but hope is the oxygen of my life. These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of the eleven men and women featured in this book. These refugees share their extraordinary experiences of fleeing oppression, violence and war in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Each chapter of Refugees in America focuses on an individual from a different country, from a 93-year-old Polish grandmother who came to the United States after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz to a young undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who became an American college graduate, despite being born impoverished and blind. Some have found it easy to reinvent themselves in the United States, while others have struggled to adjust to America, with its new culture, language, prejudices, and norms. Each of them speaks candidly about their experiences to author Lee T. Bycel, who provides illuminating background information on the refugee crises in their native countries. Their stories help reveal the real people at the center of political debates about US immigration. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as South Sudan, Guatemala, Syria, and Vietnam, this book weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to two organizations that are doing excellent refugee resettlement work and offer many opportunities to support refugees: HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) hias.org International Rescue Committee (IRC) rescue.org
Download or read book Understanding the Multifaceted Management Problems of Refugee Resettlement in the United States of America written by Prof. Justin B. Mudekereza and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Multifaced Management Problems of Refugee Resettlement in the United States of America By: Prof. Justin B. Mudekereza Centering on a social justice theme, this book explains the realities of the life that refugees live upon their resettlement in the United States. There are many problems in the sector of refugee resettlement in the country. Readers of this book should hope to understand the multifaceted management problems of resettlement in the United States. This is the only social war that the United States is unlikely to win.
Download or read book Send Them Here written by Geoffrey Cameron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Between 1945 and 1980, both countries transformed their previous policies of refugee deterrence into expansive resettlement programs. Explanations for this shift have typically focused on Cold War foreign policy, but there was a domestic force that propelled the rise of resettlement: religious groups. In Send Them Here Geoffrey Cameron explains the genesis and development of refugee resettlement policy in North America through the lens of the essential role played by faith-based organizations. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish groups led advocacy efforts for refugees after the Second World War, and they cooperated with each other and their respective governments to implement the first formal resettlement programs. Those policy frameworks laid the foundation for diverging policy trajectories in each country, leading ultimately to private sponsorship in Canada and the voluntary agency program in the United States. Religious groups remain embedded in the world’s most successful refugee resettlement programs. Send Them Here draws on a rich archival record and extensive comparative research to contribute new insights to the history of refugee policy, human rights, and the role of religion in modern policymaking and global humanitarian efforts.
Download or read book 10 Million to 1 written by Jeffrey Kirk and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are coming. Who? Refugees. Every year, the President and Congress determine the arrival quota, the small percentage of refugees who will have a chance to start a new life in the United States during that year. But just because theyre coming does not mean they are somehow lucky or that they are even going to make it in our land of opportunity. To have the best shot at success, they need your help. 10 MILLION TO 1 is about the help, direction, and love you can provide to refugees as they arrive in our country and take their first steps toward self-sufficiency. This book describes how you, who have likely grown up in the comfort of America, can welcome a refugee family and get them started on the path to a new and prosperous life as contributing members of our society. You will discover all the steps you need, from meeting them upon arrival at the airport to getting them housing to finding them jobs. Along the way, you will experience personal growth in ways you never imagined. In time, you may witness the ultimate heartwarming outcome when you see the decision, the steps, and the fulfillment as former refugees become citizens of our great nation. Oh, yes, the world is a better place.
Download or read book The Power of Prayer and the Promised Land written by Dr. Joseph Boomenyo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 80 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). About 30 million are refugees and others are asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless. The book you are holding in your hand is an advocacy and lobbying tool for the empowerment of refugees. It presents practical ideas that need to be implemented by government leaders, corporations, religious leaders, and the civil society in addressing the plight of refugees living in refugee camps in Africa and other parts of the world. It reveals that Refugee Resettlement Program is an answered prayer to the needs of refugees. This book is spreading hope and good news to the world experiencing the crisis of coronavirus pandemic. The book concludes with the cry for peace without recourse to war. It has given an appeal to our leaders around the world, believers and all the people to participate in the search for world peace through dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and genuine political willingness and commitment.
Download or read book Refugees and Asylum Seekers written by S. Megan Berthold and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe. Given the recent "re-politicization" of forced migration and refugees in Europe and the U.S., this edited collection presents an in-depth, multi-dimensional analysis of the history of policies and laws related to the status of refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe and the challenges and prospects of refugee and asylum seeker assistance and integration in the 21st century. The book provides rich insights on institutional perspectives critical to understanding the politics and practices of refugee resettlement and the asylum process in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including international human rights and humanitarian law as well as domestic laws and policies related to forced migrants. Issues addressed include social welfare supports for resettled refugees; culturally responsive health and mental health approaches to working with refugees and asylum seekers; systemic failures in the asylum processing systems; and rights-based approaches to working with forced migrant children. The book also examines policy developments and strategies to advance the well-being and social inclusion of refugees in the U.S. and Europe.
Download or read book The Power of Prayer and the Promised Land written by Dr Joseph Boomenyo and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 80 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). About 30 million are refugees and others are asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless. The book you are holding in your hand is an advocacy and lobbying tool for the empowerment of refugees. It presents practical ideas that need to be implemented by government leaders, corporations, religious leaders, and the civil society in addressing the plight of refugees living in refugee camps in Africa and other parts of the world. It reveals that Refugee Resettlement Program is an answered prayer to the needs of refugees. This book is spreading hope and good news to the world experiencing the crisis of coronavirus pandemic. The book concludes with the cry for peace without recourse to war. It has given an appeal to our leaders around the world, believers and all the people to participate in the search for world peace through dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and genuine political willingness and commitment.
Download or read book New Pioneers in the Heartland written by Jo Ann Koltyk and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive wave of immigration is currently sweeping across the US How do new immigrants, specifically the Hmong refugees from Laos, assimilate?KEY TOPICS: This book first traces the stages of the Hmong refugee experience and then looks at how Hmong families are adjusting and adapting to their new lives in America. From a family-centered focus, the reader gains an appreciation for how the Hmong see their own adaptational process and how they represent and define their Hmongness in America. Sociologists and anthropologists. Part of the New Immigrants Series.
Download or read book 10 Million to 1 written by Jeffrey Kirk and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are coming. Who? Refugees. Every year, the President and Congress determine the arrival quota, the small percentage of refugees who will have a chance to start a new life in the United States during that year. But just because they're coming does not mean they are somehow lucky or that they are even going to make it in our land of opportunity. To have the best shot at success, they need your help. 10 MILLION TO 1 is about the help, direction, and love you can provide to refugees as they arrive in our country and take their first steps toward self-sufficiency. This book describes how you, who have likely grown up in the comfort of America, can welcome a refugee family and get them started on the path to a new and prosperous life as contributing members of our society. You will discover all the steps you need, from meeting them upon arrival at the airport to getting them housing to finding them jobs. Along the way, you will experience personal growth in ways you never imagined. In time, you may witness the ultimate heartwarming outcome when you see the decision, the steps, and the fulfillment as former refugees become citizens of our great nation. Oh, yes, the world is a better place.
