Janet Mancini Billson

Refugee Pathways to Peace (eBook, PDF)

Escaping the Chaos of War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Refugee Pathways to Peace: Escaping the Chaos of War, Janet Mancini Billson provides perspectives of Vietnamese, Syrian, Congolese, Liberian, and Ukrainian refugees, and the resettlement agencies that smooth their transition into a new life context. Despite welcoming refugee policies, challenges arise in Canada's uniquely positive context. Participants discuss how they overcome displacement and cope with the trauma of leaving home and family behind. As they craft viable new lives, refugees remain vulnerable to marginality and delays in economic independence. Following Refugee Pathways to Freedom, Billson details how refugees are double victims of conflict and a glacially slow resettlement process, and places the refugee experience into a human rights framework. She offers recommendations for improving a global refugee system that is creaking as displacement escalates. She calls for limiting the sojourn in refugee camps to two years to help reduce negative impacts and maximize newcomer well-being. She concludes that the true "epidemic" is conflict (displacing 100,000,000 persons annually). Shifting the focus toward diplomacy and peacebuilding before minor conflicts become "hot spots" is crucial, as is streamlining refugee selection processes to reduce despair and lost years. Participants make specific policy suggestions that would enhance rather than degrade refugee well-being during resettlement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978778382
• Artikelnr.: 75076910

Autorenporträt

Janet Mancini Billson is former professor of sociology and women's studies at Rhode Island College and The George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Agony of War-When Home Is No Longer Viable
Chapter 2: The Vietnamese-From "Boat People" to Newcomers
Chapter 3: The Syrians-Fleeing War on All Sides
Chapter 4: The DR Congolese-Terror at Every Turn
Chapter 5: The Liberians-War in the Arc of Instability
Chapter 6: The Ukrainians-Fighting a Dire External Threat
Chapter 7: Common Challenges and Creative Coping Strategies
Chapter 8: The Gender Factor-At Risk in a Perilous World
Chapter 9: Back to Well-Being-Can a Broken System Be Fixed?
Appendix A: Methodology-A Collaborative, Participatory Approach
Appendix B: Questions to Guide Us on Our Journey
Appendix C: Informed Consent Agreement
Appendix D: Canada's National Action Plan 2017-2022
Appendix E: Amnesty International: Eight Ways to Solve the Crisis
Appendix F: The Global Compact on Refugees
Bibliography