This timely collection brings together a wide variety of contributors, from scholars and a psychiatric social worker, to former refugees who were resettled in the United States and a mural artist, to explore the current face of migration conflict.
This volume compiles 13 chapters by scholars, former refugees, a social worker, and an artist from North America, Indonesia, and Turkey, who discuss aspects of forced migration, refugees, and conflict. They offer personal narratives, academic papers, and artistic research as they discuss the circumstances of conflict and forced migration that have impacted the countries people flee from and flee to, including the process of coming to the US as an asylum seeker, the refugee experience and solidarity strategies of the Circassian diaspora, and the crisis of conflict in Darfur and the structures of global climate change, race, and gender; stories of resilience and agency in escaping oppression and migrating to the US; humanitarian and policy responses, including child protection policy in an anti-immigration context in the US, children left behind and the trauma they experience, and the humanitarian response of Scholars for Syria, an organization to help Syrian students who resettled in the US; and art as a form of hope and social consciousness, with discussion of refugees in the novels of Bildungsroman and a mural arts project with Syrian youth and their families. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
