1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255447403321

Autore

Betts Alexander <1980->

Titolo

Survival migration : failed governance and the crisis of displacement / / Alexander Betts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2013

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8014-6895-7

1-322-52350-9

0-8014-6896-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

362.870967

Soggetti

Refugees - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Political refugees - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Forced migration - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Human rights - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Africa, Sub-Saharan Emigration and immigration Political aspects Case studies

Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Survival migration -- The national politics of international institutions -- South Africa : the ad hoc response to the Zimbabwean influx -- Botswana : the division of Zimbabweans into refugees and migrants -- Angola : the expulsion of the Congolese back to the southern provinces -- Tanzania : the paradoxical response to congolese from South Kivu -- Kenya : humanitarian containment and the Somalis -- Yemen : contrasting responses to Somalis and Ethiopians -- Improving the refugee protection regime.

Sommario/riassunto

International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food



insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as "refugees," preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of "survival migration" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves.Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa-Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia-Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996647814903316

Autore

Monterrubio Ibáñez Lourdes

Titolo

Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film : The Case of Francophone Europe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-04-078782-7

1-04-079374-6

1-003-69134-X

90-485-5691-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Disciplina

791.436110944

Soggetti

ART / Film & Video

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Audiovisual Thinking and Enuciative Devices -- 1. The Letter -- 2. The (Self-)Portrait -- 3. The Dialogue -- 4. The Diptych -- 5. Hybridisations -- 6. Saturation -- 7. Autofiction -- 8. The Spectator’s Position -- Conclusion – Identity and Critical Thinking -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual thinking process manifests itself in essay films. It explores how issues of subjectivity and identity, whether individual, social, political or cultural, prompt thought through the medium of cinema. The volume discusses the European Francophone essay film from its first appearance in cinematic modernity to the present. The study is developed in three stages. The first analyses the intermedial forms that are used: the letter, the (self-)portrait, the dialogue, the diptych, etc. The second examines the audiovisual materials that are mobilised. The third addresses the audiovisual procedures that are generated. In its analysis of works by Marker, Godard, Akerman, Varda and others, this book offers a new and detailed understanding of the production, evolution and achievements of the essay film in Francophone Europe.