1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715529303321

Titolo

Administration of the Executive Departments. Views of the majority. Mr. Wise, from the committee appointed on the 17th of January last, to inquire into the condition of the Executive Departments, &c., made the following report: March 3, 1837. Read, and laid upon the table

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1837

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (557 pages) : tables

Collana

House report / 24th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 194

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 307]

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellRobert Blair-1862 (Nullifier (SC))

LincolnLevi <1782-1868> (Anti-Jackson (MA))

WiseHenry A <1806-1876> (Henry Alexander),  (Jacksonian (VA))

Soggetti

Administrative procedure

Governmental investigations - United States

Executive departments

Administrative agencies

Impeachments

Misconduct in office

Political corruption

Patronage, Political

Cabinet officers

Witnesses - United States

Presidents

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Notable witnesses include.

Henry Alexander Wise, U.S. Representative, Virginia.

Abijah Mann, Jr., U.S. Representative, New York.

James Parker, U.S. Representative, New Jersey.

Hugh Lawson White, U.S. Senator, Tennessee.

Levi Woodbury, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

Selah R. Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster General.



John Forsyth, U.S. Secretary of State.

Amos Kendall, U.S. Postmaster General.

Garrett D. Wall, U.S. Senator, New Jersey.

John Ross, Cherokee Indian Chief.

Views of the minority, p. 22.

Journal of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate the Executive Departments, p. 86.

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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910545199603321

Autore

Inhorn Marcia C

Titolo

Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees : Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-80073-057-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages)

Collana

Forced Migration ; ; v.40

Altri autori (Persone)

VolkLucia

Disciplina

305.9/069140956

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees

Middle East Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees -- Part I (Dis)Counting Refugees -- 1 When States Need Refugees: Iraqi Kurdistan and the Security Alibi -- 2 Navigating Precarity, Prejudice, and “Return” The (Un)Settlement of Displaced Afghans in Iran and Afghanistan -- 3 Unsettling “Refugees” as a Category: Labeling, Imagined Populations, and Statistics in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut -- Part II Protesting Exclusion -- 4 Middle Eastern Refugeehood in the Happiest Place on Earth: Syrians and Iraqis Entering Finland’s Welfare State Bureaucracy -- 5 “I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here” An Afghan



Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater -- 6 Demanding Their Welcome: Agency-in-Waiting at a Refugee Protest Camp in Dortmund, Germany -- Part III Making Lives in Exile -- 7 Living as Enduring: The Struggle for Life against the Limits of Refuge among Gaza Refugees in Jordan -- 8 Reimagining “the Arab Way” in Exile: Futures “Off Line” among Syrian Men in Amman -- 9 Proactive Reciprocity: Educational Trajectories Reclaimed through Patterns of Care among Refugee Men in Greece -- Part IV Seeking Health -- 10 America’s Wars and Iraqis’ Lives: Toxic Legacies, Refugee Vulnerabilities, and Regimes of Exclusion in the United States -- 11 Regimes of Exclusion in the Reproductive Healthcare Setting: Exploring the Experiences of Syrian Refugees in San Diego, California -- 12 Valuing Health, Negotiating Paradoxes: Medicalization of Hymen, Hymenoplasty, and Women’s Healthcare in Ontario -- Part V Reshaping Humanitarianism -- 13 A Death Sentence? UNRWA in the Trump Era -- 14 Race, Religion, and Afghan Refugees’ Practices of Care in Greece -- 15 Blurred Lines and Syrian Tea: Negotiations of Humanitarian-Refugee Relationships in France -- 16 Inclusive Partnerships: Building Resilience Humanitarianism with Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan -- Conclusion: Rethinking Exclusion and Inclusion in Refugee Resettlement -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence. The collection bears witness to their struggles, while also highlighting their aspirations for safety, settlement, and social inclusion in their host societies and new homes"--