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Forced Migration Studies eBook Series

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  • Possibilities of Educational Pathways to Refugee Resettlement

    A Personal Journey from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Australia

    by Dr William Mude, PhD, Dr Sally Baker, PhD, Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff, JD, Professor Laura Hammond, PhD ...
    Series series Forced Migration Studies
    How can the lived experience of a refugee demonstrate the transformative power of education, and how can we better support education programmes for refugees?Through a series of vignettes, author William Mude traces his personal journey from schooling in a refugee camp in Uganda, to a serendipitous connection in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and his subsequent career in public health and academia ... Read more

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  • Mission Driven Bureaucrats

    Empowering People To Help Government Do Better

    by Dan Honig ...
    This book argues that the performance of our governments can be transformed by managing bureaucrats for their empowerment rather than compliance. Aimed at public sector workers, leaders, academics, and citizens alike, it contends that public sectors too often rely on a managerial approach which seeks to tightly monitor and control employees, and thus demotivates and repels the mission motivated. ... Read more

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  • Child Brides, Global Consequences

    How to End Child Marriage

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Our Stories, Our Voices, Our Identities

    The New Zealand Resettlement Storybook

    by Abann Kamyay Ajak Yor ...
    The New Zealand Resettlement Storybook is an introductory narrative to encourage relationship building between resettled people and New Zealand society. The stories in this book recall the lived experiences of individuals from a forced migrant background, i.e., those who were forced, because of civil war and persecution, to leave their country of origin without having the choice to immigrate. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Edited by Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Read more

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  • Educating Children in Conflict Zones

    Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change--A Tribute to Jackie Kirk

    by Karen Mundy, Sarah Dryden-Peterson ...
    Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers on education in war and other conflict zones, the volume provides a comprehensive and critical ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Humanitarian Parent

    Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

    by Merit Hietanen ...
    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the world changes and the sector diversifies, how can family life be reconciled with the challenges and ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Beyond Refuge

    Stories of Resettlement in Auckland

    by Abann Kamyay Ajak Yor ...
    Beyond Refuge is a new way to brining resettled people and host society together to share settlement and integration lived experience that might encourage connection, understanding and relationship building. Stories of resettlement in Auckland is about sharing the collective voice of resettled people with wider New Zealand society and the world. In this storybook, new settlers from refugee ... Read more

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  • Quality Education

    by Dr Rashid Alleem ...
    The book Quality Education is an effort to highlight many individuals and innovative organizations in the world who are making progress and improving millions of people’s lives through quality education. The book gives a strong message that Quality Education is, the biggest gift we can give to the next generation. Each and every child deserves it. ... Read more

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  • Refugee Economies

    Forced Displacement and Development

    by Alexander Betts, Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, Naohiko Omata ...
    Refugees have rarely been studied by economists. Despite some pioneering research on the economic lives of refugees, there remains a lack of theory and empirical data through which to understand, and build upon, refugees' own engagement with markets. Yet, understanding these economic systems may hold the key to rethinking our entire approach to refugee assistance. If we can improve our knowledge ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Development As Leadership-Led Change: A Report For The Global Leadership Initiative

    by Andrews Matthews; McConnell Jesse; Wescott Alison ...
    Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence.This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global Leadership Initiative and led by the World Bank Institute (WBI), to examine leadership in the change ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Governance for Development in Africa

    Solving Collective Action Problems

    by David Booth, Diana Cammack ...
    Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially argue that externally imposed 'good governance' approaches make unrealistic assumptions about the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD