Immigrants and Refugees: Encyclopedias and Handbooks

"A comprehensive treatment of anti-immigration sentiment exploring debate, policies, ideas, and key groups from historical and contemporary perspectives."

"Introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue."

Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding immigration and illegal aliens.

Chapter from the "World at Risk"

explores how Americans think of themselves and how science, religion,period of migration, gender, education, politics, and occupational mobility shape both this image and American life. Since the 1965 Immigration Act opened the gates to newer groups, historical writing on immigration and ethnicity has evolved over the years to include numerous immigrant sources and to provide trenchant analyses of American immigration and ethnicity.

Topics include legal and illegal immigration, ethnic and race relations, and discrimination and exclusion, and their links to crime in the United States and elsewhere.

An interdisciplinary look at an issue that defines the modern era: the large-scale movement of people across international borders.l

Cutting-edge overview of the key intellectual, political, social, and institutional challenges arising from mass displacement in the world today.

A chapter from the Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict exploring forced migration and refugees in the context of armed conflict.

Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law, this article explores "the legal basis for applying the ‘failure to protect critique’ to both perpetrators and bystanders. In particular, it discusses the extent to which international law allows holding individual bystander states responsible for a failure to protect."

A collection of innovative research that examines the preservation of socio-cultural memory in the wake of disaster and violence. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topics including conscription, refugee culture, and climate change, this book is ideally designed for human rights workers, activists, historians, policymakers, government officials, researchers, academicians, and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology, geography, politics, and urban planning.

Immigration Chapter provides an overview of the major themes and scholarly debates in international migration, with a focus on the United States.

Since 2017, the Chinese authorities have detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in 'reeducation camps' in China's northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region.

25 Million Sparks takes readers inside the Za'atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three courageous Syrian women entrepreneurs, the narrative expands beyond Za'atari to explore the broader refugee entrepreneurship phenomenon in more than twenty camps and cities across the globe. A significant portion of the author's proceeds from this book is being contributed to support refugee entrepreneurs in Za'atari and around the world.

States that evil is endemic and a non-trivial element in society. Discusses topics that are less covered, such as evil in the area of law, sports and on the internet. Integrates perspectives from social science, cultural studies and psychology

Focused on the international community's response to the conflict in Syria, this is a book about the inexorable quest for justice, even in the face of seemingly impenetrable obstacles erected by actors intent on ensuring impunity.