The 'right to Return' and the Meaning of 'home'
The 'right to Return' and the Meaning of 'home'

Author: Eftihia Voutira

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 3643901070

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How do people who were part of an extant socioeconomic and political system adapt in another world order? This book ethnographically addresses the two complementary processes of Pontic Greeks' ethnic displacement over a century: diaspora and repatriation. Longitudinal data is employed to argue that the concept of 'repatriation' should be construed as 'affinal', in the sense of 'return to each other', rather than 'return to a place'. The book documents the impact of multiple persecutions under Stalinism on the formation of a Soviet Greek collective identity. It explores the meaning of 'repatriation' and the emergence of a European identity as an option. The acquisition of this novel identity becomes a privilege entailing the right to move across and within the borders of Europe.

Refugees and the Meaning of Home
Refugees and the Meaning of Home

Author: Helen Taylor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1137553332

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This book explores the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees living in London since their island was torn apart by war. Taking an innovative approach, it looks at how spaces, time, social networks and sensory experiences come together as home is constructed. It places refugee narratives at its centre to reveal the agency of those forced to migrate.

Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights for Refugees and Displaced Persons

Author: Scott Leckie

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 9004502289

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This volume is a unique effort to cover the topic of the restitution of housing and property in light of lessons learned in the Balkans, South Africa, East Timor, and in a range of other countries that have made the shift from conflict to peace. Individual chapters by authors with direct experience dealing with housing and property restitution in particular contexts will bring into focus the legal and human rights aspects of this question. All parties involved in human rights, refugee assistance, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, and property rights will find this volume to be an indispensable resource now that housing and property restitution is viewed as an essential element of post-conflict reconstruction and a primary means of reversing “ethnic cleansing.”

The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Author: Anneke Smit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1136331433

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The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.

Human Rights As Indivisible Rights
Human Rights As Indivisible Rights

Author: Ida Elisabeth Koch

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9004160515

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The book analyses the legal nation of human rights as indivisible, interrelated and interdependent rights by analysing case law from the European Court of Human Rights. The book concludes that the nation of human rights as indivisible right as a legal content and that aspects of several socio-economic rights are in fact protected by the Convention.

Return
Return

Author: Biao Xiang

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0822377470

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Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, and highly skilled émigrés, the contributors argue that the figure of the returnee energizes and redefines nationalism in an era of increasingly fluid and indeterminate national sovereignty. They acknowledge the diversity, complexity, and instability of reverse migration, while emphasizing its discursive, policy, and political significance at a moment when the tensions between state power and transnational subjects are particularly visible. Taken together, the essays foreground Asia as a useful site for rethinking the intersections of migration, sovereignty, and nationalism. Contributors. Sylvia Cowan, Johan Lindquist, Melody Chia-wen Lu, Koji Sasaki, Shin Hyunjoon, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Mika Toyota, Carol Upadhya, Wang Cangbai, Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

This Was Not Our War
This Was Not Our War

Author: Swanee Hunt

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2004-11-29

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780822333555

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This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare.