Intersections of displacement : refugees' experiences of home and homelessness /

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Refugees are forced to gamble with their lives to flee conflicts, and if they arrive at their intended destination unscathed, they may face the turbulent prospect of asylum defined by a meagre existence, social exclusion, poverty, and even homelessness. Operating at different scales and imagined pla...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kissoon, Priya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Subjects:
Refugees > Housing > England > London.
Refugees > Housing > Ontario > Toronto.
Homelessness > England > London.
Homelessness > Ontario > Toronto.
Réfugiés > Logement > Angleterre > Londres.
Réfugiés > Logement > Ontario > Toronto.
Itinérance > Angleterre > Londres.
Itinérance > Ontario > Toronto.
Housing & homelessness.
Refugees & political asylum.
Human geography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Homelessness
Refugees > Housing
Refugees > Social conditions
Ontario > Toronto
England > London
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Refugees are forced to gamble with their lives to flee conflicts, and if they arrive at their intended destination unscathed, they may face the turbulent prospect of asylum defined by a meagre existence, social exclusion, poverty, and even homelessness. Operating at different scales and imagined places, homelessness and asylum seeking are issues of fundamental social justice typically viewed as a problem of cities and crises of national and international concern respectively. However, over the past two decades in particular, the increasing and volatile numbers of asylum seekers arriving in the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (340 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443883122
1443883123

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