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UNINA9910585556703321 |
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Autore |
Nguyen Vinh |
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Titolo |
Refugee states : critical refugee studies in Canada / / Vinh Nguyen, Thy Phu |
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Toronto, Ontario : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2021 |
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1-4875-4139-2 |
1-4875-3866-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 236 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Refugees |
Electronic books. |
Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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; Introduction: Critical Refugee Status in Canada / Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu -- ; Part One: Historicization -- tShifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy / Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman -- Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness / Alia Somani -- Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience / Laura Madokoro -- Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship / Peter Nyers -- ; Part Two: Conjunctions -- Where Are We From? Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations / Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung -- Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal / Edward Ou Jin Lee -- Producing the Figure of the "Super-Refugee" through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration / Gada Mahrouse -- Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand's What We All Long For / Donald Goellnicht -- ; Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary / Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen. |
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"Exploring "refuge" and "refugee" as concepts that shape Canadian nation-building both within and beyond national borders, Refugee States takes an interdisciplinary and critical approach to describing how refugees articulate their relation to and defiance of official discourses. |
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Through close examinations of refugee movements, contexts, and subjectivities, this collection reveals how Canada has relied upon the rejection and inclusion of refugees as a crucial means of statecraft. Bringing together renowned and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, Nguyen and Phu illuminate the historical, political, and cultural conditions that produce refugees as well as the narrative of humanitarian benevolence that persists nationally and internationally. Highlighting landmark cases, the editors and contributors together develop critical refugee studies as a framework for understanding, nuancing, and critiquing the production of Canadian humanitarian exceptionalism--the international image and discourse of Canada as a liberal, tolerant, and welcoming haven for people fleeing oppression, persecution, and unfreedom. In doing so, Refugee States offers alternative modes of understanding past and present refugee passages to and within Canada, and brings to light the many ways in which refugee subjects navigate displacement, migration, and resettlement."-- |
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UNINA9910299412503321 |
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Anticoagulant Rodenticides and Wildlife / / edited by Nico W. van den Brink, John E. Elliott, Richard F. Shore, Barnett A. Rattner |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVI, 398 p. 48 illus., 28 illus. in color.) |
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Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology, Principles, Approaches and Perspectives, , 1868-1344 ; ; 5 |
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Environmental toxicology |
Ecotoxicology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Foreword -- 1. Anticoagulant Rodenticides and Wildlife: Introduction -- 2. Use of anticoagulant rodenticides in different applications around |
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the world -- 3. Anticoagulant rodenticide toxicity to non-target wildlife under controlled exposure conditions -- 4. Pharmacokinetics of anticoagulant rodenticides in target and non-target organisms -- 5. Ante-mortem and post-mortem signs of anticoagulant rodenticide toxicosis in birds of prey -- 6. Primary exposure and effects in non-target animals -- 7. Secondary exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides and effects on predators -- 8. Spatial dimensions of the risks of rodenticide use to non-target small mammals and applications in spatially explicit risk modeling -- 9. Ecological factors driving uptake of anticoagulant rodenticides in predators -- 10. Development of resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides in rodents -- 11. An international perspective on the regulation of rodenticides -- 12. Anticoagulants and risk mitigation -- 13. Perspectives on existing and potential new alternatives to anticoagulant rodenticides and the implications for integrated pest management -- 14. Anticoagulant rodenticides and wildlife: concluding remarks. |
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Commensal rodents consume and spoil crops and food supplies, cause property damage and can be vectors for disease. Rats have also invaded islands and can pose a serious threat to native wildlife, particularly seabirds. Estimates of rodent damage range into the billions of dollars in developed countries. In southern Asia, rodents are estimated to consume or destroy annually sufficient rice to feed 50 million people. The predominant control method for pest rodents in most countries is anticoagulant rodenticides, which are antagonists of vitamin K metabolism that prevent blood-clotting and cause fatal haemorrhage. This mode of toxicity is common to all vertebrates because of their shared blood clotting mechanism, so anticoagulants pose a potential risk to a wide range of non-target species. This is well recognised and anticoagulants fail regulatory environmental risk assessments in many jurisdictions. Nonetheless, the compounds continue to be heavily used because of the societal need for rodent control and the limited availability of safer alternatives. As a result, exposure of non-target species is commonplace throughout the world and reflects the extensive use, persistence and bioaccumulation potential of many of these compounds. The consequences of such exposure, in terms of effects on wildlife populations, remain uncertain and the subject of much research, debate and controversy. Accordingly, there is a significant and ongoing need for integrated assessment of the threats to wildlife from anticoagulant rodenticides, combined with development of governance, mitigation measures and development of alternatives. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the scientific advancements in the assessment of exposure, effects and risks that currently used rodenticides may pose to non-target organisms in the environment. This is discussed in relation to their efficacy, and the societal needs for rodent control, and risk mitigation and development of alternatives. |
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