LitArk » Books » Politics

Norman L. Zucker - Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America

Here you can read online Norman L. Zucker - Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 1996, publisher: Routledge, genre: Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Book:
Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America
Author:
Norman L Zucker / Naomi Flint Zucker
Publisher:
Routledge
Genre:
Books / Politics
Year:
1996
Rating:
3 / 5
Favourites:
Add to favourites
Your mark:
- 60
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Description
Author's other books
Similar books

Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Norman L. Zucker: author's other books

Who wrote Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

D E S P E R A T E

C R O S S I N G S

Books by Norman L. Zucker and Naomi Flink Zucker

The Guarded Gate: The Reality of American Refugee Policy (1987)

The Coming Crisis in Israel: Private Faith and Public Policy (1973)

Books by Norman L. Zucker

The American Party Process: Comments and Readings (1968)

George W. Norris: Gentle Knight of American Democracy (1966)

First published 1996 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notices
No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use of operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.

Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zucker, Norman L.

Desperate crossings : seeking refuge in America / Norman

L. Zucker, Naomi Flink Zucker

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-56324-727-5 (alk. paper).

ISBN 1-56324-728-3 (paperback : alk. paper)

1. Refugeesgovernment policyUnited States.

2. Asylum, Right ofUnited States. 3. United StatesEmigration

and immigration. I. Zucker, Naomi Flink. II. Title.

JV6601.Z83 1996

362.870973dc20 96-14378

CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563247286 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9781563247279 (hbk)

To Haras Harobed Rekcuz and Leonard P.Q. Swineley, who were there at the beginning.

Providing refuge to those facing persecution in their homeland goes to the very heart of the principles and moral precepts upon which this country and its Constitution were founded. It is unavoidable that some burdens result from the protection of these principles. To let these same principles go unprotected would amount to nothing less than a sacrilege.

Nuez v. Boldin

Contents

We began our research and writing on forced migration and refugees in 1980, in Washington, D.C., where Norman Zucker was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a contributor-consultant to the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy. Three months after our arrival in Washington, the Refugee Act was signed, and, soon thereafter, the Mariel boatlift began. We observed and gathered data on both events, milestones in American refugee history. Over the last decade and a half, we have written a book, The Guarded Gate: The Reality of American Refugee Policy, as well as book chapters and articles on the subject of refugees. This book is an outgrowth of investigations that, we began during the Mariel boatlift.

We have benefited from interviews with refugees, government officials, representatives of nongovernmental agencies, advocates, lawyers, and scholars. Many of these people began as colleagues and became our friends. Fellow scholars freely shared their unpublished materials, their ideas, their time, and their resources; we owe them an intellectual and personal debt.

We also were encouraged to use the facilities of the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada; the Refugee Studies Programme of Oxford University, Oxford, England; the Berlin Institute for Comparative Social Research, Berlin, Germany; and the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts. We profited from their resources and from the intellectual stimulation of their conferences. In Washington, D.C., the US Committee for Refugees and the Refugee Policy Group also shared their data with us.

Among the many who have helped us, the following people deserve particular thanks: Shara Abdulah, Howard Adelman, Belinda Allan, Deborah E. Anker, Robert L. Bach, Jochen Blaschke, Sharon Brown, Rolande Dorancy, John Evans, Steven Forester, Bill Frelick, Anne Fuller, Dennis Gallagher, Andreas Germershausen, Mark Gibney, Linda Gordon, Virginia Hamilton, Barbara E. Harrell-Bond, James C. Hathaway, Arthur C. Helton, Erwin A. Jaffe, Charles B. Keely, Harold Hongju Koh, Ira J. Kurzban, C. Michael Lanphier, Pamela H. Lewis, Cheryl Little, Gil Loescher, Jane Lowicki, Jocelyn McCalla, Hiram Ruiz, Julia A. Spinthourakis, Barry N. Stein, Dale F. (Rick) Swartz, Roger Zetter.

In tracking down the photographs, we were helped by Jerusalem Eyob, Virginia Hamilton, Betsy Lincoln, Darlene Pfluger, Eric Pumroy, brother Richard of Weston Priory, John Tenhula, and Marifrances Trivelli.

Gregg Beyer extended his help for many years and, in particular, carefully and critically read the manuscript.

Atle Grahl-Madsen and Jerry Tinker have died since we began our work, but we remain grateful for their friendship and help.

Margaret J. (Mimi) Keefe, Deborah Mongeau, Marie S. Rudd, and Michael C. Vocino, Jr., of the University of Rhode Island Library, handled our sometimes difficult requests with good humor and speed. Nicholas Ray was a conscientious and imaginative research assistant who cheerfully carried out a number of tasks.

We received from the University of Rhode Island Faculty Development Fund a number of grants for travel and research.

John T. Harney gave good counsel. Stephen J. Dalphin, our editor, understood from the start what we were trying to achieve and allowed us the (additional) time we needed.

As always, our children, Sara and Sam, gave us encouragement when we needed it, advice when we asked for it, and criticism whenever possible.

D E S P E R A T E

C R O S S I N G S

For nearly fifty years, from the conclusion of the Second World War until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world was divided into two camps, communist and non-communist. In geographic terms, the enemies were the East and the West, each fearing annihilation by the other. Today the Soviet Union is dead and communism an aged shadow, but a cold war of a different kind haunts us. The enemies now face off from north and south, and the threat is not annihilation, but invasion, invasion of the countries of the north by armies of migrants from the south. In this war, the armies of the north are border patrols and immigration authorities, the weapons restrictive laws, interdictions, humane deterrence, and forced repatriations. Political leaders in the north appeal to patriotism and to fear, the fear of strangers crossing their borders. But the enemy is not a monolith; all migrants are not driven by the same needs, not drawn by the same prospects. Many of these migrants are refugees, people driven by fear of persecution and drawn by hope of safe haven.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America»

Look at similar books to Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Rob Chilson

Refuge

Dr Anna Hayes

Cultures in Refuge: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia

John H. Groberg

Refuge and Reality: The Blessings of the Temple

Zoe Holman

Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe

The New York Times Editorial Staff

Seeking Asylum: The Human Cost

Stephan Bauman

Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis

Jane Marchese Robinson

Seeking Sanctuary: A History of Refugees in Britain

Lon Kurashige

Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings

Bandera

A Refuge of Lies: Reflections on Faith and Fiction

Jessica Goudeau

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Margrit Rosenberg Stenge

Silent Refuge

Terri Blackstock

Cape Refuge

Reviews about «Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America»

Discussion, reviews of the book Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America: Seeking Refuge in America and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.