Library Highlights Latest Titles: October 2005 These titles can be consulted in the UNHCR Library Reading Room (located in the Visitors’ Centre, 94 rue de Montbrillant, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland). For any information, please contact the Library Information Desk, +41 22 739 83 19, email: [email protected] Children of Palestine : experiencing forced migration in the Middle East / Chatty, D. (ed.); Lewando Hundt, G. (ed.). - New York (NY); Oxford (United Kingdom) : Berghahn, 2005. - xiii, 274 p. : fig., tabl., maps, bibl., index. - (Studies in forced migration / Castles, S. (ed.), Chatty, D. (ed.) ; vol. 16) ISBN : 1-84545-120-1 INDEX TERMS : Palestinians; child refugees; adolescents; forced migration; social conditions; living conditions; refugee experiences; refugee camps; psycho-social problems; testimonies; UNRWA GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS : Middle East; Palestine; Lebanon; Jordan; Syrian Arab Republic Palestinian children have been living a temporary existence with their caregivers inside and outside refugee camps in the Middle East for half a century. They have been stereotyped in both the academic and popular imagination. This study attempts to go beyond the stereotypes and takes a holistic approach to examine the consequences of forced migration and prolonged conflict on children when they and their families are uprooted and forced to move. It reveals how forced migration and poverty affect the rites of passage from childhood to adult status and how the transformations of family organization and structure, marriage, employment and care of the elderly are changed and adapted to suit new circumstances. Though the narratives of coping with conflict and forced migration are personal and family experiences, yet, they are shaped by structural violence, displacement, curfew, unemployment, social discrimination, restricted access to travel and education and lack of civil rights and citizenship. Exiles from European revolutions : refugees in mid-Victorian England / Freitag, S. (ed.). - New York (NY) : Berghahn, 2003. - 328 p. ISBN : 1-57181-330-6 INDEX TERMS : exiles; women; Italians; French nationals; Hungarians; Germans; political asylum; national refugee law; revolution; socialism; history; political refugees GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS : Europe; United Kingdom This historical account looks at French, Italian, Polish, Czech and German political refugees who fled to England after the European revolutions of 1848/49. The contributors investigate and analyse the national peculiarities and mutualities of various exile communities and their interaction with the host country. They examine various aspects of refugee lives in exile and the opportunities for political activities and political cooperation that existed between exiles of different European countries on one hand and with organizations and politics in England on the other. This historical survey seeks to stimulate further discussion about exclusion and inclusion within the context of political asylum. The face of human rights / Kälin, W.; Müller, L.; Wyttenbach, J. - Baden : Lars Müller, 2004. - 719 p. ISBN : 3-03778-017-7 INDEX TERMS : displaced persons; refugee rights; right to life; right to food; right to health; right to housing; right to education; freedom of conscience; freedom of expression; civil and political rights; discrimination; cultural identity; human rights covenants 1966; basic human standards; photographs Human rights are an attribute of every human being. They are the legal entitlements of individuals against the state, guaranteed by international law for the purposes of protecting the fundamental needs and dignity of every individual in peace and war. As normative values they provide a yardstick for measuring and evaluating reality. This book aims to visualize the different dimensions of human rights and contains a series of photographs that celebrate the enjoyment of human rights and a life of freedom and dignity across cultures. The accompanying texts document, explain and detail the human rights standards as defined by international law and applied in practice and their violation. The texts and visuals also include international organizations and international and local NGOs working at different levels to prevent, sanction and redress human rights violations. The Hague : legal capital of the world / Van Krieken, P.J. (ed.); McKay, D. (ed.). - The Hague (The Netherlands) : T.M.C. Asser Press, 2005. - xix, 569 p. : photos, bibl., index ISBN : 90-6704-185-8 INDEX TERMS : international criminal law; disarmament; peacekeeping; conflict resolution; international organizations; international instruments; international humanitarian law; history; treaties; law of armed conflict; international private law; courts; international criminal tribunals; ICJ; CWC93; BTWC72; OSCE GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS : The Netherlands Towards the end of the 19th century there was a general recognition that the world order would be better served if relations between states were guided by universally accepted rules. Netherlands played an important part in the subsequent process of institution building. After World War 2, the International Court of Justice was assigned to The Hague giving Netherlands international recognition of its affinity with international law. In recent times The Hague has been home to international courts such as the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. This volume examines the various international institutions in The Hague and their role in today's system of international law. By providing a scholarly analysis of over a century of developments in The Hague, the authors put current institutions in a historical and legal context. This volume also details the various international issues covered by various courts in The Hague. These include conflict resolution, international criminal law, arms control and international private law. Haitian refugees forced to return : transnationalism and state politics, 1991-1994 / Opitz, G.-D. - Münster (Germany) : Lit, 2004. - 383 p. : ill. Doctoral Thesis, University of Munich, summer semester 1998 ISBN : 3-8258-4544-3 INDEX TERMS : refugees; Haitians; political situation; repression; armed intervention; coup d'etat; government in exile; negociation; social collectivities; interethnic relations; self-determination; social classes; denial of refugee status GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS : Haiti; United States This study examines the Haitian refugee crisis between 1991 and 1994 as a process that linked together Haiti and the US, when the intense political pressure for political negotiation to end the civil war triggered a steam of refugees bound for the US. The study takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine this crisis at three different levels of analysis: first, the level of bilateral relations between Haiti and the US embedded in an international context; second, the level of nationalistic organizing by Haitian immigrants in New York oriented towards Haiti; and third, the level of ethnic organizing directed towards the host country. The Haitian refugee crisis represents a social field of bi-directional and reciprocal patterns of stimuli and responses which was affected by both international actors and trans-national formations. The aim of this study is to evaluate if the crisis had a unifying effect on the Haitian community in New York and how this process was shaped by socially constructed categories of nation, race, ethnicity and class. Human cargo, a journey among refugees / Moorehead, C. - London : Chatto and Windus, 2005. - 324 p. ISBN : 0-7011-7595-8 INDEX TERMS : Liberians; Palestininians; women refugees; child refugees; internally displaced persons; asylum seekers; illegal immigrants; boat people; detention of immigrants; borders; asylum policy; immigration policy; exile; refugee camps; living conditions; refugee experiences; testimonies; migrants GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS : Egypt; Guinea; Italy; United States; Mexico; Lebanon; United Kingdom; Australia; Finland In this book, the author, an investigative journalist, exposes the West's view of and attitude towards asylum seekers. Through first-person testimonies of refugees, the author pieces together an account of human trafficking throughout the last century and the courage, inhumanity and tragedy that accompany it. She recounts the loneliness, fear and despair that accompany displacement and the profound dislocation experienced by refugees everywhere. The author takes us from the Mexican-Californian border to the draconian refugee responses of the Australian government. She talks of the Liberian boat people who fled ethnic cleansing to Sicily and visits African refugees in Cairo living in inhumane conditions while their applications are reviewed by an overburdened UNHCR. She discusses the condition of Sudanese Dinka families settled in the Arctic Circle, who can never go home, and struggle to live and adjust to their environment. The refugee-plight reveals the human consequences of depersonalized asylum policies. The western paranoia of a growing influx of refugees is based on a false premise. Only 2 to 3 per cent of the world's population are now international migrants and this figure has remained constant in the last 50 years. European countries continue to spend more money in strengthening borders against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers than in contributing to UNHCR to relieve their plight. Internal displacement in South Asia : the relevance of the UN's guiding principles / Banerjee, P.; Kumar Das, S.; Basu Ray Chaudhury, S. - New Delhi