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Hannah Arendt vidste, hvad det vil sige at flygte. I 1933 tog hun, som mange andre tyske jøder, flugten fra det nazistiske Tyskland gennem Europa og til New York. Her brugte hun resten af sit liv på at tænke og skrive - ikke mindst om flygtninge, statsløshed og rettigheder. I denne bog samles tre af Arendts vigtigste flygtningetekster. Hannah Arendts personlige fortælling om at være flygtning er så stærk, at den bliver tidsløs.

Dunja Hayali über ein Deutschland, das auf dem Spiel steht: "Ich hatte nie das Gefühl, nicht deutsch zu sein. Erst als ich im Fernsehen auftauchte, begann man, mir meine Heimat abzusprechen. Heute frage ich mich: in was für einem Deutschland möchte ich und wollen wir eigentlich leben?" Dunja Hayali geht den Fragen auf den Grund, die unsere Nation unter Spannung setzen: wie wird "Heimat" definiert? Was wird aus Deutschland, wenn selbsternannte Heimatschützer diesen Begriff als Chiffre für Ausgrenzung missbrauchen? Und wie lässt sich dem Hass der Nationalisten begegnen und die liberale Gesellschaft erhalten?

Chi sono gli stranieri presenti oggi in Italia? Da dove arrivano e per quali ragioni? Come viene regolata la loro presenza? L'immigrazione è un fenomeno complesso, radicato nelle condizioni sociali del paese e nelle trasformazioni degli ultimi decenni. Un fenomeno parte di un processo più ampio che ha investito in tempi diversi tutti i paesi dell'Europa occidentale e che ha reso gli immigrati una presenza stabile.

Di immigrazione si parla molto, nelle cronache dei giornali e in tv, nei dibattiti pubblici e nelle discussioni private. Eppure molte domande sull'argomento restano ancora senza risposta. Da dove arrivano, e cosa cercano, i migranti che tentano la via del Mediterraneo? Cosa sono, e come si diffondono, le fake news sui flussi migratori? Quali sono i limiti e le responsabilità delle politiche italiane ed europee sull'accoglienza? Che cosa possiamo davvero fare?

"Il caso Diciotti. L'intervento della Chiesa per sbloccarlo (e dell'Irlanda). L'uomo che non conosce il mare indagato per sequestro di persona, sequestro di persona a scopo di coazione, arresto illegale, abuso d'ufficio e omissione di atti d'ufficio. Il sistema australiano. La recrudescenza del razzismo. L'ONU che riconosce che nei campi libici i migranti vengono torturati, la guerra civile a Tripoli, i "cani selvaggi" addosso a Papa Francesco.

Südliches Mittelmeer, Juni 2018. 235 Menschen drohen auf offener See zu ertrinken - ihr viel zu kleines Schlauchboot ist leck geschlagen und verliert seit Stunden an Luft. Claus-Peter Reisch, Kapitän des Schiffes Lifeline, handelt sofort und rettet mit seiner Crew den verzweifelten Flüchtlingen das Leben. Doch seinem Schiff wird überall die Landung verwehrt. Kein europäischer Staat will die Schutzsuchenden aufnehmen. Erst nach fünf langen Tagen, in denen Europa einmal mehr über die Verantwortlichkeiten streitet, darf Reisch endlich in Malta anlegen.

It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers - coyotes - and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished.

The 21st century has been an era of hardening borders-increased borderland patrols, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who can vacation (or do business) where they please, and others whose movements are restricted by armed guards. But as journalist Todd Miller finds in Empire of Borders, the US border is also becoming increasingly fluid, expanding thousands of miles outside of US territory often to protect Washington's interests.

In this audiobook, Melvin Delgado offers a compelling case for the centrality of sanctuary cities' cause to the very mission and professional identity of social workers and others in the human services and mental-health professions. He also presents a historical perspective on the rise of the sanctuary movements of the 1970s and 2000s, giving context for the current environment and immigration debate.

In The Great Great Wall, architectural historian and critic Ian Volner takes a deep dive into the story of Donald Trump’s wall. Volner follows the conception, selling, design, and construction (or lack thereof) of this expensive and consequential barrier, giving listeners a detailed description of what’s happening in Washington, DC - and along the border. He also travels far afield, to China, the Middle East, northern England, and back to our border to examine the barriers we’ve been building for centuries.

Many fantasize about dramatically changing their lives - living in accordance with their ideals rather than the exigencies of job, bills, and possessions. William Powers actually does it. Here, his family, with baby in tow, searches for balance, community, and happiness in a small town in Bolivia. They build an adobe house, plant a prolific orchard and organic garden, and weave their life into a community of permaculturists, bio-builders, artists, and creative businesspeople. Can this Transition Town succeed in the face of encroaching North American capitalism?

For six months, Army Captain Matt C. Pinsker was deployed to the Mexican-American border as a member of a unique mission. He and a handful of others were assigned to the Department of Justice as special prosecutors to handle the increasing number of immigration cases resulting from President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy. Once arrived, Captain Pinsker found himself dead center handling the near-impossible challenges of America's immigration crisis.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana, was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego. But then something changed. Over the past 10 years, Mexico’s third-largest city became one of the world’s most dangerous. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could be understood only as one symptom among many.

Multi-Grammy-winning producer and New York Times best-selling author Kabir Sehgal examines the relationship between the US and Mexico, accompanied by music from Grammy-winning musician Arturo O'Farrill and special guests, an extended foreword from historian Douglas Brinkley, and afterword by Ambassador Andrew Young.

At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on social media. One would think that competitors in the National Spelling Bee - the most popular brain sport in America - would be the worst off. Counterintuitively, anthropologist Shalini Shankar argues that Gen Z spelling bee competitors are learning crucial 21st-century skills from their high-powered lives, displaying a sophisticated understanding of self-promotion, self-direction, and social mobility.

Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and, along the way, turned into one of the most Muslim towns in the US. Now about 6,000 of Lewiston's 36,000 inhabitants are refugees and asylum seekers, many of them Somali. Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient city.

America Is Better Than This tells the inside story of how one senator, with no background as an immigration activist, became a leading advocate for reform of the brutal policies that have created a humanitarian crisis on the southern US border. It represents the heartfelt and candid voice of a concerned American who believes his country stands for something far bigger and better.

The Border Patrol has grown exponentially, ICE detention centers have cropped up across the country, and the southern border is more militarized than ever before, but we are no safer. Instead, families are being ripped apart, undocumented people are living in fear, and thousands of migrants have died in detention or crossing the border. Taking listeners to the border patrol outposts, unmarked graves, detention centers, and halls of power, Sand and Blood is a frightening, essential story we ignore at our peril.

A provocative account of the long, racist history of our immigration system, revealing how it has become the brutal machine that today upends the lives of millions of immigrants. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine". The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record - so-called "criminal aliens" - the majority of whose offenses are immigration-, drug-, or traffic-related.

In 2017, five-year-old Julia traveled with her mother, Guadalupe, from Honduras to the United States. Her harrowing journey took her through Mexico in the cargo section of a tractor trailer. Then she was separated from her mother, who was held hostage by smugglers who exploited her physically and financially. At the United States border, Julia came through the processing center as an unaccompanied minor after being separated from her stepdad who was deported.