Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy

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Koichi Koizumi (Daito Bunka University, Tokyo) Gerhard Hoffstaedter (La Trobe University, AUS)

Urban Refugees

Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy

Koichi Koizumi (Daito Bunka University, Tokyo), Gerhard Hoffstaedter (La Trobe University, AUS)

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Routledge
06 February 2018

Refugees & political asylum; Urban communities; Human geography

Series: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics

Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research has been done on refugees living in camps and settlements set up expressly for them. This book provides crucial insights into the worldwide phenomenon of refugee flows into urban settings, repercussions for those seeking protection, and the agencies and organizations tasked to assist them. It provides a comparative exploration of refugees and asylum seekers in nine urban areas in Africa, Asia and Europe to examine issues such as status recognition, international and national actors, housing, education and integration. The book explores the relationship between refugee policies of international organisations and national governments and on the ground realities and demonstrates both the diverse of circumstances in which refugees live, and their struggle for recognition, protection and livelihoods.

Edited by: Koichi Koizumi (Daito Bunka University Tokyo), Gerhard Hoffstaedter (La Trobe University, AUS)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138546448
ISBN 10: 1138546445
Series: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 06 February 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Between a rock and a hard place: Urban refugees in a global context 1. Demonstrable needs: Protest, politics and refugees in Cairo 2. Casamance refugees in urban locations of The Gambia 3. The politics of mistrust: Congolese refugees and the institutions providing refugee protection in Kampala, Uganda 4. Increasing urban refugee protection in Nairobi: Political will or additional resources? 5. Practices of reception and integration of urban refugees: The case of Ravenna, Italy 6. Surviving the city: Refugees from Burma in New Delhi 7. Life in limbo: Unregistered urban refugees on the Thai–Burma Border 8. Urban refugees and the UNHCR in Kuala Lumpur: Dependency, assistance and survival 9. The Japanese pilot resettlement programme: Identifying constraints to domestic integration of refugees from Burma 10. Coping as an asylum seeker in Japan: Burmese in Shinjuku, Tokyo 11. Postscript:

Koichi Koizumi, Professor in the Faculty of International Relations at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo. Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland.

Reviews for Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy

"""Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy is the first edited volume to tackle the topic of urban refugees and their survival ‘‘between a rock and a hard place"". (…) this edited collection serves not only as a useful introduction to the phenomenon of urban refugees but will also be relevant to those with a particular interest in the refugee situation in one of the cities or countries covered."" - Neil James Wilson, City University of London"