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Auteur(s) : Shum, Terrance Chun Tat
Titre(s) : Asylum-seeking journeys in Asia [Texte imprimé] : refugees in Hong Kong and Bangkok / Terence Chun Tat Shum
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
Description matérielle : xii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge series on Asian migration ; 4
Lien à la collection : Routledge series on Asian migration
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index
"This book looks in detail at the journeys to asylum in Asia which are largely neglected
in the media and academic analyses, despite Asia becoming the most essential region
for asylum, receiving refugees from both within and outside of the continent. Treating
asylum-seeking journeys as a transnational space, the author investigates the actual
asylum-seeking process from homelands to either Hong Kong or Bangkok. Today, refugees
undertake multiple, long, and life-threatening journeys before arriving in receiving
societies; from the moment of arrival in Hong Kong or Bangkok, they face a wide array
of challenges. An ethnographic account of how refugees navigate and negotiate their
journeys to asylum, this book highlights the social, political, economic, and psychological
processes involved in "becoming" and "being" a refugee. This encompasses not only
the physical movement of refugees, but also their embodiments and emotional encounters.
The author offers a micro-level analysis of asylum-seeking journeys - from the aspiration
to flee, to migration preparation, to border crossing, to home-making in prolonged
displacement. All of these stages reveal how these journeys create ever-evolving realities
with new constellations of options and constraints. By focusing on refugees' understanding,
perception of, and interaction with the people, environments, and situations around
them, this book illustrates how refugee life plans are shaped and reshaped by the
embodied experience of their journeys, and how their ideas of home have changed over
time. Asylum-seeking Journeys in Asia will appeal to scholars and students in the
fields of migration and refugee studies, diaspora studies, globalisation, and Asian
studies"
Sujet(s) : Réfugiés -- Hong Kong (Chine)
Réfugiés -- Bangkok (Thaïlande)
Émigration et immigration -- Hong Kong (Chine)
Émigration et immigration -- Bangkok (Thaïlande)
Indice(s) Dewey :
304.809 5 (23e éd.) = Mouvements de populations - Asie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138551923. - ISBN 1138551929. - ISBN 9781351375207 (erroné). - ISBN 9781315147864
(erroné). - ISBN 9781351375214 (erroné). - ISBN 9781351375221 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457291723
Notice n° :
FRBNF45729172
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