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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458785703321

Autore

O'Neill Maggie

Titolo

Asylum, migration and community / Maggie O'Neill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4473-0151-X

1-282-91342-5

9786612913426

1-84742-224-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

304.8

325.1

Soggetti

Politics and Government

Immigrants - Cultural assimilation

Ethnic relations

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Communities

Asylum, Right of - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Asylum, migration and community; Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Copyright acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. Globalisation, forced migration, humiliation and social justice; 2. Asylum-migration-community nexus; 3. Researching the asylum migration-community nexus; 4. Representing refugees and asylum seekers in the mainstream and alternative media: discourses of inclusion and exclusion; 5. Diasporic communities:citizenship, social justice and belonging; 6. Children, young people and unaccompanied young people; 7. Women refugees and asylum seekers

8. Refused asylum seekers, destitution, poverty and social networks9. Human dignity, humiliation and social justice: beyond borders - re-imagining the asylum migration-community nexus; Bibliography



Sommario/riassunto

No further information has been provided for this title.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966920603321

Autore

Steele M. William <1947->

Titolo

Alternative narratives in modern Japanese history / / M. William Steele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

1-134-40407-7

0-203-35252-1

1-280-05892-7

0-203-51071-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Classificazione

15.75

Disciplina

952.025

952/.025

Soggetti

Japan History Restoration, 1853-1870

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES IN MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES, GRAPHS AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 GOEMON'S NEW WORLD VIEW; 2 THE JAPANESE DISCOVERY OF JAPAN; 3 THE VILLAGE ELITE IN THE RESTORATION DRAMA; 4 EVERYDAY POLITICS IN RESTORATION PERIOD JAPAN; 5 EDO IN 1868; 6 THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN'S CIVIL WAR; 7 THE EMPEROR'S NEW FOOD; 8 POLITICAL LOCALISM IN MEIJI JAPAN; 9 1890: Peripheral visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

How did ordinary people experience Japan's modern transformation? What role did people in local areas play in the making of modern Japan? How do studies of local politics help explain national events?The dominant account of modern Japanese history focuses on the nation-building that brought Japan into the modern world. After centuries of isolation, American warships forced Japan to open its doors to the West and a group of tough new leaders transformed the country into one of the great military and economic powers of the world. But different perspectives need to be examined. Alternativ