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Forced Displacement In Popular Culture
Forced displacement and the experiences of refugees, asylum seekers and otherwise forcibly displaced people became of increasing interest in the popular culture since 2015 with the European migrant crisis. Books Fiction * ''Refugee Tales: Volume II: 2'' by Jackie Kay et al., 2017 * '' Exit West'' by Mohsin Hamid, 2017 * ''Refugee Tales'', by Ali Smith et al., 2016 * ''What Is the What'' by Dave Eggers, 2006 * ''Refugee Boy'' by Benjamin Zephaniah, 2001 Children's books * ''Where Will I Live?'' by Rosemary McCarney, 2017 * ''Stormy Seas. Stories of Young Boat Refugees'' by Mary Beth Leatherdale, 2017 * ''Stepping Stones. A Refugee Family's Journey'' by Margriet Ruurs, 2016 * ''Refugee'' by Alan Gratz, 2016 Poems * ''Sisters' Entrance'' by Emtithal Mahmoud, 2018 Non-Fiction * ''The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis'' by Patrick Kingsley, 2017 * ''Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis'' by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, 2017 * ''Refuge: Trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forced Displacement
Forced displacement (also forced migration) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region. The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations". A forcibly displaced person may also be referred to as a "forced migrant", a "displaced person" (DP), or, if displaced within the home country, an "internally displaced person" (IDP). While some displaced persons may be considered as refugees, the latter term specifically refers to such displaced persons who are receiving legally-defined protection and are recognized as such by their country of residence and/or international organizations. Forced displacement has gained attention in international discussions and policy making since the European migrant crisis. This has since resulted in a greater consideration of the impacts of forced migration on affected regions outside Europe. Various i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Betts (academic)
Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, and Associate Head (Graduate and Research Training) of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. Academic career He completed his undergraduate degree at Durham University. He then completed an MSc at Bristol University, followed by an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was appointed Rose Junior Research Fellow in International Relations at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 2006, before becoming Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at Wadham College, Oxford between 2007 and 2010. He then spent a year as a post-doc at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), before becoming Associate Professor in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford in 2011. He became Professor of Forced Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning '' Drifting Clouds'' (1996), ''The Man Without a Past'' (2002), '' Le Havre'' (2011) and '' The Other Side of Hope'' (2017), as well as for the mockumentary '' Leningrad Cowboys Go America'' (1989). He is described as Finland's best-known film director. Career After graduating in media studies from the University of Tampere, Kaurismäki worked as a bricklayer, postman, and dish-washer, long before pursuing his interest in cinema, first as a critic, and later as a screenwriter & director. He started his career as a co-screenwriter and actor in films made by his older brother, Mika Kaurismäki. He played the main role in Mika's film '' The Liar'' (1981). Together they founded the production company Villealfa Filmproductions and later the Midnight Sun Film Festival. His debut as an independent director was ''Crime and Punishment'' (1983), an adaptation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Side Of Hope
''The Other Side of Hope'' ( fi, Toivon tuolla puolen) is a 2017 Finnish comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's Finnish company Sputnik. In December 2016, it was selected to play in competition at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The story is about a Finnish businessman who meets a Syrian asylum-seeker looking for his missing sister. Kaurismäki has noted that this film will be his last as a director. Plot In Helsinki, Waldemar, a traveling shirt salesman, quarrels with his wife and leaves her. He decides to leave his business and sells his remaining shirts. He gambles his earnings at a poker game and wins a lot of money. With this, he buys a restaurant. His three employees are initially skeptical of Waldemar's attempts to reinvigorate their restaurant. At the same time, Khaled, a Syrian, shows up in Helsinki illegally on a cargo ship. He turns himself in to the police and applies for asylum. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaivet Ealom
Jaivet Ealom is a Toronto-based author, former refugee, refugee advocate, and the only person known to have escaped from Manus Island Detention Centre in Papua New Guinea. Early life Ealom was born in Myanmar where he faced persecution, as a Rohingya ethnic minority. In Myanmar, he studied industrial chemistry. Life as a fugitive and refugee Escape from Myanmar In 2013 Ealom took a boat to Jakarta, Indonesia. During the journey he nearly drowned, but was pulled from water by fishermen. From Jakarta, Ealom attempted to sail to Australia. During the journey, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that Australia would not accept refugees arriving by boat. Ealom was intercepted by Australian authorities, and subsequently imprisoned. He spent six months on Christmas Island before being transferred to Manus Island Processing Centre, aged 21 years. Detention and escape from Manus Island In May 2017, after three and a half years of detention, a suicide attempt, a brief hunger s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escape From Manus
Escape From Manus is an autobiographical memoir by Rohingya refugee Jaivet Ealom documenting his escape from the genocide in Myanmar, his journey to Indonesia, his arrest upon arrival in Australia, and detention in Australian offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea. While in detention Ealom suffers prison-like conditions, is the victim of a violent attack, attempts suicide, and goes on hunger strike. After three and a half years of detention is becomes the only person to escape Manus Island. After his escape he travels to the Solomon Islands and finally Canada.. The book has received positive reception in Australian and Papua New Guinean press. Plot summary Ealom is a Rohingya refugee whose story starts with his 2013 escape from the genocide in Myanmar. He travels by boat to Jakarta, Indonesia but nearly drowns during the journey and is rescued by a fisherman. From Indonesia, he starts a journey to Australia, planning to seek asylum upon arrival. During his boat journe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Boys Of Sudan
The Lost Boys of Sudan refers to a group of over 20,000 boys of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced or orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1987–2005). Two million were killed and others were severely affected by the conflict.Lost Boys of Sudan official IRC website. The term was used by healthcare workers in the and may have been derived from the children's story of ''''. The term also was used to refer to children who fled the post- |
Caroline Moorehead
Caroline Mary Moorehead (born 28 October 1944) is a human rights journalist and biographer. Early life Born in London, Moorehead is the daughter of Australian war correspondent Alan Moorehead and his English wife Lucy Milner. She received a BA from the University of London in 1965. Writing Moorehead has written six biographies, of Bertrand Russell, Heinrich Schliemann, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn, Sidney Bernstein, and Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, the daughter in law of Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, who experienced the French Revolution and left a rich collection of letters as well as a memoir that cover the decades from the fall of the Ancien Régime up to the rise of Napoleon III. Moorehead has also written many non-fiction pieces centered on human rights including a history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ''Dunant's Dream'', based on previously unseen archives in Geneva, ''Troublesome People'', a book on pacifis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Di Giovanni
Janine di Giovanni is an author, journalist, and war correspondent currently serving as the Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. She is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, a non-resident Fellow at The New America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy in International Security and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the Blake-Dodd nonfiction prize for her lifetime body of work. She has contributed to ''The Times'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''Granta'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Guardian''. Early life Di Giovanni is the seventh child of an Italian-born father and a mother from an Italian-American family. She was raised in New Jersey. Originally she wanted to become a humanitarian doctor in Africa, but initially embarked on an academic career. Di Giovanni attended the University of Maine, where she ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Rawlence
Ben Rawlence is a British writer who has written three books: “The Treeline: the last forest and the future of life on earth” (2022) ''Radio Congo: Signals of Hope From Africa's Deadliest War'' (2012) and '' City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp'' (2016). From 2006 to 2013 he was a researcher for Human Rights Watch's Africa division. Rawlence has also written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''London Review of Books.'' He lives in the Black Mountains, Wales where he is the founding director of Black Mountains College, an institution devoted to creative and adaptive thinking in the face of the climate and ecological emergency. Education From the years 1986 to 1993, Rawlence was educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School, a state grammar school for boys, in the city of Salisbury, in Wiltshire, in the west of England, followed by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where he gained a BA in Swahili and history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TheGuardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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