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Examines the displacement of Palestinians by Zionist immigrants and Jewish refugees.

Dawit's future was bleak in his home country of Eritrea, where he would be forced to join the military. Along with a friend, he makes the difficult decision to flee his home and meet with relatives in Europe. After a dangerous journey and months spent in a refugee camp, Dawit faces challenges in his new home Amsterdam. Interspersed with facts about Eritrea and its people, this narrative tells a story common to many refugees fleeing the country. Readers...

Official figures classify some fifty million of the worldʹs people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated -- categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent...

As the Portuguese socialist revolution closes in, a once-wealthy family is accused of economic sabotage and plans an escape across the border to Spain. But the patriarch lies dying and his greedy son-in-law is scheming to secure the remains of the crumbling estate for himself.

"This book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood....

"In "The Year Five," Nguyen Van Trinh, one of the boat people who left Vietnam after the war, is living in a squalid refugee camp on Bidong Island. He is as powerless to repress his sorrow over his daughter's death as the Malaysian administrative chief of the island is to find out who carved Trinh's name into the wooden plank in the staff eating hut." "In "The Public Spectacle," Bridget and Owen Greef, two misfits, have been growing apart because...

The 1948 Palestine War is known to Israelis as "The War of Independence." But for Palestinians, the war is forever the Nakba, the "catastrophe." This book focuses on Palestinian internal refugees in Israel and internally displaced Palestinians across the Green Line. It uses oral history and interviews to examine Palestinian identity and memory, indigenous rights, international protection, the "right of return," and a just solution in Palestine/Israel....

Erudite, balanced, and pleasingly written in spite of its long account of mayhem in the name of divinity, this is a storehouse of history and anecdote from the time of the pharoahs to the present. Concentrated mainly on Christian intolerances that moved populations.

Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety -- perpetually hungry, imprisoned, and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps,...