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Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes' victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad. During this difficult year of exile, the city of Athens was set on fire not once, but twice. In Athens Burning, Robert Garland explores the reasons behind the decision to abandon Attica, the peninsular...
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"Read J.C. Ballagh's 'White Servitude' (Baltimore, 1895). An organized system of kidnapping had prevailed along the British coast; you lads were seized and sold into slavery on the American Plantations." -Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Oct. 28, 1919
"Ballagh's monograph shows conscientious labor, good judgment, and a fair degree of skill in the arrangement of the matter." - Virginia Magazine of History, 1895
Has full justice been done to the great class...
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Par rapport à la taille de sa population, le Canada est l'un des pays qui accueillent le plus de personnes immigrantes (Beaudoin, 2016; May, 2022). Pour s'adapter aux réalités de la société d'accueil et s'y intégrer, les personnes immigrantes en général, et celles réfugiées en particulier, doivent effectuer de multiples nouveaux apprentissages sur le plan culturel, professionnel, notamment les particularités du marché du travail, mais...
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No one dreams of becoming a refugee. I know – I was one, a child fleeing war-torn Sarajevo. Though the Bosnian War has faded from global attention, for those it displaced, the struggle persists. Being a refugee is not a one-time event, but a lifelong series of petty humiliations as you chase the elusive prize of acceptance in a new homeland.
This collection shares raw stories from refugees like me who now call Canada home. On paper, Canada welcomes...
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Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of refugee survival in Paris and Nairobi: shelter, work, and political belonging.
Bhagat's book makes sense of a global refugee regime along the contradictory fault lines of passive humanitarianism,...
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"Tales of the Colorado Pioneers, by Alice Polk Hill, contains many interesting stories of early struggles of the men who settled and developed the Centennial State." -San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9, 1884
"Alice Polk Hill...has collected all the stories, witty pathetic, and exciting, of the early days in the Centennial State...far pleasanter to read the thrilling stories than live through their real trials." -Courier-Journal, Sept. 21, 1884
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"White Servitude in Maryland, argues that two thirds of teachers in colonial Maryland were servants. Servants in the northern colonies worked as masons, wagoners, bakers, carpenters, cooks, tailors, attorneys, and accountants." - Poverty in America (2008)
"Eugene McCormac writes that running away was characteristic of servitude and that it cut into profits." - Liberation Theology Along the Potomac (2011)
"In Eugene McCormac's study of indentured...
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"This history was in main prepared from statements from the original settlers of the Juniata Valley." -The News (Newport), Nov. 22, 1889
"The most interesting account of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley...massacres and abductions by the Indians." -Everett Press, Mar. 21, 1941
"Jones states that among the first settlers...was Captain Jack, certainly one of the most noted characters of his day." -Public Weekly (Chambersburg), Jan. 31, 1885
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Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Françoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups of Jews, including displaced persons, partisan fighters, hidden children, and refugees from Nazism.
Ouzan shows that personal success is not only a...
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After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of...
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"Reminiscences of a Ranger...by Horace Bell...published in 1881...became a classic work of frontier literature. Bell, a gold-seeker, volunteer lawman, soldier, lawyer and journalist, was a masterful story-teller and his colorful book has been aptly termed 'the finest memoirs of early Los Angeles'...accounts of gold rush bandits, gunfights, vigilantes and manhunts." -Tulsa World, Jan. 9, 2000
"Reminiscences of a Ranger...by Horace Bell...is the real...
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The story of a young Syrian refugee's attempt to reach Sweden, focusing on her ordeal in icy waters after the dilapidated fishing vessel in which she was traveling--along with 500 others--sinks.
Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, Doaa Al Zamel floated with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutched two children who had been thrust into her arms by their drowning relatives. Once an average Syrian girl, her life was upended...
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