Sending Them Home

Sending Them Home

Author: Robert Manne

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2004-04-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 192182512X

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In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine thousand refugees who remain in limbo on temporary protection visas. Sending Them Home also contains a groundbreaking account of conditions in the offshore processing camps on Nauru, whose operations have until now been shrouded in secrecy, and a damning forensic investigation of the recent efforts to return - frequently against their will - many of those who sought our protection and whose countries remain in turmoil. Combining ethical reflection and acute political analysis, this essay initiates a new phase in the refugee debate. 'No one ought to pretend that the unanticipated arrival of the Iraqis, Afghans and Iranians did not pose real ... problems for Australia. However these problems arose not because these people were not genuine refugees. They arose, rather, precisely because the overwhelming majority of them were.' -Robert Manne, Sending Them Home This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 10, Made in England, from Phillip Knightley, Morag Fraser, Larissa Behrendt, Alan Atkinson, James Curran, Sara Wills, and Gerard Windsor


Calling This Place Home

Calling This Place Home

Author: Joan M. Jensen

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 0873517288

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An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.


Hellenika I-II.3.10

Hellenika I-II.3.10

Author: Xenophon

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0856684643

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The Peloponnesian War, according to Thucydides, was the result of the growth of Athenian power. Beginning with the battle of Abydos in 411, this edition covers the Ionian or Dekeleian War, whose end in 404 also brings to a close the Peloponnesian War as a whole. The narrative is all the more valuable for the fact that Xenophon is likely to have been present at a number of the events described. In his very first sentence he mentions a naval battle in which the Athenians are defeated, and in doing so heralds their eventual defeat in the war. It is a tale of decline, and of expansionism gone awry.


The Bread House

The Bread House

Author: Daniel Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-08-17

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0615159834

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The Bread House tells a story of an alternative ancestral line of Jesus and Mary Magdalene that is actually Jewish. The line is not based on blood-relation, but rather (Jewish) tradition passed down from SaraĆ¢the adopted daughter of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The story sets the symbol of Blood (elitism, dynasty, war) against the symbol of Bread (egalitarianism, unity, peace).


Merging Numeracy with Literacy Practices for Equity in Multilingual Early Year Settings

Merging Numeracy with Literacy Practices for Equity in Multilingual Early Year Settings

Author: Robyn Jorgensen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9811677670

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This book draws on both in and out of school literacy practices with teachers and families to enhance the numeracy of early learners. It provides highly illustrative exemplars, targeted for learners up to approximately eight years of age whose home language differs from the language of instruction. It identifies the challenges faced by these learners and their families, and shares ways of building both literacy and numeracy skills for some of the vulnerable learners nationally and internationally. The book shares the outcomes and strategies for teaching mathematics to early years learners and highlights the importance of literacy practices for learners for whom the language of instruction is different from their home language. Readers will gain a practical sense of how to create contexts, classrooms and practices to scaffold these learners to build robust understandings of mathematics.


Vietnam Veterans Unbroken

Vietnam Veterans Unbroken

Author: Jacqueline Murray Loring

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1476677077

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For 50 years, civilians have avoided hearing about the controversial experiences of Vietnam veterans, many of whom suffer through post-traumatic stress alone. Through interviews conducted with 17 soldiers, this book shares the stories of those who have been silenced. These men and women tell us about life before and after the war. They candidly share stories of 40-plus years lived on the "edge of the knife" and many wonder what their lives would be like if they had come home to praise and parades. They offer their tragedies and successes to newer veterans as choices to be made or rejected.


Bridging Mobilities

Bridging Mobilities

Author: M. Nyamnjoh

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2013-12-06

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9956791180

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This is a study on the creative appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong, home and away. With a focus on Cameroonian migrants from Pinyin and Mankon who are currently living in Cape Town and the Netherlands, this book examines the workings of the social fabric of mobile communities. It sheds light on how these communities are crafting lives for themselves in the host country and simultaneously linking up with the home country thanks to advances in ICTs and road and air transport. ICTs and mobilities have complemented social relational interaction and provide migrants today with opportunities to partake in cultural practices that express their Pinyin-ness and Mankon-ness. Pinyin and Mankon migrants are still as rooted in the past as they are in the present. They were born into a community with its own sense of home, moral ethos and cultural pride but live in a context of accelerated ICTs and mobility that is fast changing the way they live their lives. Drawing on this detailed ethnographic case study and related literature, Henrietta Nyamnjoh argues that while ICTs continue to enhance mobility for those who move and for those who stay put, they have become inextricably linked in forging networks and reconfiguring existing ones. Contrary to earlier studies that predicted radical social change and the passing of traditional societies in the face of new technologies, ICTs have been appropriated to enhance the workings of existing social relations and ways of life while simultaneously pointing to new directions in ever more creative and innovative ways.