A Country of Refuge: An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers 1783522690, 9781783522699

Orientations: An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe 9786155211768

Excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries thru early specimens of modern tourism

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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba 9780863569951

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A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba 0863569900, 9780863569906

The Nakba, or "catastrophe," of 1948 saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dispossessed from their land to

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Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing 9780824863838

A thousand years after Hawaiians first paddled long wooden boards into the ocean, modern surfers have continued this pra

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Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts 0295751223, 9780295751221

Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiogra

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Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts 0295751223, 9780295751221

Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiogra

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Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees 9781847425782

European governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen

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Women Travelers on the Nile : An Anthology of Travel Writing through the Centuries 9781617979873, 9789774167874

"Relentlessly entertaining"—Michelle Green, The New York Times Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth cent

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In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates 9780520975064

After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughou

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Identities on Trial in the United States : Asylum Seekers from Asia 9781498574747, 9781498574730

ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum-seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and esca

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