Mistrusting Refugees (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Daniel, E. Valentine; Knudsen, John Chr.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The twentieth century has seen people displaced on an unprecedented scale and has brought concerns about refugees into sharp focus. There are forty million refugees in the world-1 in 130 inhabitants of this planet. In this first interdisciplinary study of the issue, fifteen scholars from diverse fields focus on the worldwide disruption of "trust" as a sentiment, a concept, and an experience.

Contributors provide a rich array of essays that maintain a delicate balance between providing specific details of the refugee experience and exploring corresponding theories of trust and mistrust. Their subjects range widely across the globe, and include Palestinians, Cambodians, Tamils, and Mayan Indians of Guatemala. By examining what individuals experience when removed from their own culture, these essays reflect on individual identity and culture as a whole.

The twentieth century has seen people displaced on an unprecedented scale and has brought concerns about refugees into sharp focus. There are forty million refugees in the world-1 in 130 inhabitants of this planet. In this first interdisciplinary study of

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mayo Clinic Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520341234
• Artikelnr.: 67812173