Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon of refugee flows into urban settings, repercussions for those seeking protection, and the agencies and organizations tasked to assist them.
Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon of refugee flows into urban settings, repercussions for those seeking protection, and the agencies and organizations tasked to assist them.
Koichi Koizumi, Professor in the Faculty of International Relations at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo. Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland.
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Introduction: Between a rock and a hard place: Urban refugees in a global context 1. Demonstrable needs: Protest, politics and refugees in Cairo 2. Casamance refugees in urban locations of The Gambia 3. The politics of mistrust: Congolese refugees and the institutions providing refugee protection in Kampala, Uganda 4. Increasing urban refugee protection in Nairobi: Political will or additional resources? 5. Practices of reception and integration of urban refugees: The case of Ravenna, Italy 6. Surviving the city: Refugees from Burma in New Delhi 7. Life in limbo: Unregistered urban refugees on the Thai-Burma Border 8. Urban refugees and the UNHCR in Kuala Lumpur: Dependency, assistance and survival 9. The Japanese pilot resettlement programme: Identifying constraints to domestic integration of refugees from Burma 10. Coping as an asylum seeker in Japan: Burmese in Shinjuku, Tokyo 11. Postscript:
Introduction: Between a rock and a hard place: Urban refugees in a global context 1. Demonstrable needs: Protest, politics and refugees in Cairo 2. Casamance refugees in urban locations of The Gambia 3. The politics of mistrust: Congolese refugees and the institutions providing refugee protection in Kampala, Uganda 4. Increasing urban refugee protection in Nairobi: Political will or additional resources? 5. Practices of reception and integration of urban refugees: The case of Ravenna, Italy 6. Surviving the city: Refugees from Burma in New Delhi 7. Life in limbo: Unregistered urban refugees on the Thai-Burma Border 8. Urban refugees and the UNHCR in Kuala Lumpur: Dependency, assistance and survival 9. The Japanese pilot resettlement programme: Identifying constraints to domestic integration of refugees from Burma 10. Coping as an asylum seeker in Japan: Burmese in Shinjuku, Tokyo 11. Postscript:
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