Rediscovering Humanitarianism

Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement
Herausgeber: Stroja, Jessica

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a new approach to understanding the histories of refugee resettlement and their relevance for contemporary emergencies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781032740980
• ISBN-10: 1032740981
• Artikelnr.: 72700474

Autorenporträt

Jessica Stroja is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia, and specialises in heritage and the resettlement of refugees. Her recent work focuses on the role of faith-based organisations in the care and advocacy for refugees in Australia during the twentieth century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using a Faith-Based Lens to Uncover
Histories and New Aspects of Humanitarian Aid for Refugees 2. Medical
Missionaries and the Humanitarian Subject: The American Women's Hospital,
Faith-Based and Secular Humanitarianism, 1917-1939 3. Training the Friends
Relief Service for the "Refugee Problem" at Mount Waltham, 1943 4. "A
Mission Field, Backwards": World Relief and American Evangelicals in U.S.
Refugee Resettlement 5. Religious Humanitarianism in Post-War Queensland,
Australia: Spiritual Guidance, Evangelism, or Humanitarian Aid? 6.
Australian Baptist Missionaries, Humanitarianism and the Bangladesh
Liberation War in 1971 7. DIY Aid in Poland: How Grassroots Humanitarianism
Helped Ukrainian Refugees 8. Conclusion: Legacies of Faith-Based
Humanitarianism and Contemporary Refugee Emergencies