Rosewater - Previously Published as 'Then They Came For Me'

Rosewater - Previously Published as 'Then They Came For Me'
by Maziar Bahari (Author), Aimee Molloy (Author), Stephen Hoye (Narrator)
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Human Rights

Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives

Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Laura T. Murphy (Author)

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Human Rights

Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths, and Olaudah Equianos of our time, testifying to the widespread existence of a human rights tragedy and the urgent need to address it.

Through storytelling and firsthand testimony, this anthology shapes a twenty-first-century narrative that many believe died with the end of slavery in the Americas. Organized around such issues as the need for work, the punishment of defiance, and the move toward activism, the collection isolates the causes, mechanisms, and responses to slavery that allow the phenomenon to endure. Enhancing scholarship in women's studies, sociology, criminology, law, social work, and literary studies, the text establishes a common trajectory of vulnerability, enslavement, captivity, escape, and recovery, creating an invaluable resource for activists, scholars, legislators, and service providers.

• Rank: #73541 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .70" h x 6.00" w x 8.90" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America

Global Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America
Alvaro Vargas Llosa (Author)

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Human Rights

Migration has been happening, in varying forms, for millennia but it still elicits fear and mistrust, and not just on the part of the Areceiving” society. Communities from where people migrate often disapprove of the migrants’ decision and consider it treacherous. The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion particularly in the United States and Europe. Global Crossings cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood and misrepresentation that dominates the debate, clarifying the causes and consequences of human migration. Why do millions of people continue to risk their lives, and oftentimes lose it, in the pursuit of a chance to establish themselves in a foreign land? The book first looks at the immigrant experience, which connects the present to the past, and America to the rest of the world, and explores who immigrants are and why they move. The conduct of today is no different than that in the past. And contrary to the claims by immigration critics, the patterns of contemporary migration do not differ fundamentally from those of other epochs. Global Crossings then discusses immigration and culture. To what degree are foreigners culturally different? Can natives adapt? Can immigrants assimilate into the new society? In assessing whether critics are justified in pointing to a major cultural shift Alvaro Vargas Llosa reviews such topics as religion, education, entrepreneurial spirit, and attitudes toward the receiving society. The book analyzes such economic factors as jobs, wages, education, and the welfare state. How can an economy continue to operate even in the face of major legal obstacles, and how have recessions and times of prosperity influencedAmore significantly than government effortsAthe number of immigrants coming into the United States and other countries? Vargas Llosa finds that immigration’s contributions to an economy far outweigh the costs. Finally Global Crossings makes a call for

• Rank: #86238 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-07-01
• Released on: 2013-06-01
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1