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OverviewThe notion of America as land of refuge is vital to American civic consciousness yet over the past seventy years the country has had a complicated and sometimes fickle relationship with its refugee populations. Attitudes and policies toward refugees from the government, voluntary organizations, and the general public have ranged from acceptance to rejection; from well-wrought program efforts to botched ones. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical material, and based on the author’s three-decade experience in refugee research and policy, Safe Haven? provides an integrated portrait of this crucial component of American immigration—and of American engagement with the world. Covering seven decades of immigration history, Haines shows how refugees, their supporters and detractors continue to struggle with national identities and the effect this struggle has had on American institutions and attitudes.|The notion of America as land of refuge is vital to American civic consciousness yet over the past seventy years the country has had a complicated and sometimes fickle relationship with its refugee populations. Attitudes and policies toward refugees from the government, voluntary organizations, and the general public have ranged from acceptance to rejection; from well-wrought program efforts to botched ones. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical material, and based on the author’s three-decade experience in refugee research and policy, Safe Haven? provides an integrated portrait of this crucial component of American immigration—and of American engagement with the world. Covering seven decades of immigration history, Haines shows how refugees, their supporters and detractors continue to struggle with national identities and the effect this struggle has had on American institutions and attitudes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David HainesPublisher: Kumarian Press Imprint: Kumarian Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9781565493315ISBN 10: 1565493311 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 November 2010 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsSafe Haven? is a long overdue exploration of America s relationship to refugees and their relationship to their new country. Having worked with refugees for over 35 years, I read with great delight his assertion that it is refugees ' who break down the boundaries between the world as Americans understand it and want it to be and a rather different world: one that is disorderly, resists American preconceptions, and eludes American efforts at control.' This book chronicles the twists and turns of various policies and points of view that have impacted the U.S. Refugee Program throughout 30 years while refugees from all around the globe undergo their own individual struggle. Haines demonstrates that the moral significance of particular groups of refugees is as much tempered by political and ethnic concerns as by universal principles. He shows us how truly complex the experiences and identities of refugees are, and evaluates decades of programs to receive and assimilate refugees into the United States. Safe Haven? is essential reading for anyone studying or working with refugees in the U.S. Prior to the publication of Safe Haven? , the literature on refugees in US was fragmented, spread across a wide range of sources, and addressed disparate disciplines, historical periods, aspects of adaptation, nationality and religious groups, and policy concerns. As a consequence, readers were without an integrated, critical and comparative perspective on the topic. In this exquisitely researched, wide-ranging and beautifully written book, David Haines, the leading authority on American refugees, draws on four decades of personal involvement with the subject together with an exhaustive review of literature and data to historicize, contextualize and evaluate the experiences of refugees who have settled in the US since WWII. In so doing, he provides scholars, students, resettlement staff and policy makers with a detailed yet wide-ranging understanding of the experience of refugees in the United States. In so doing, the book provides invaluable lessons about both the refugees as well as the society that they are joining. The book is concise, with some chapters casting a broader view and others more pointedly exploring certain aspects of newcomer welcome and adaptation. Overall, this work provides an important summary and inquiry into the challenges of US resettlement research, policy, and programming... The author s analysis thoroughly explores points included and articulates philosophical underpinnings of resettlement that will challenge those who seek simple answers to questions of how refugees fare in the US and who or what is responsible for their success or lack thereof. Practitioners, researchers, and policy makers familiar with resettlement will benefit from this work s comprehensive analysis and compelling insights, while the book is also recommended for others interested in better understandingthe magnitude and intricacies of US refugee resettlement. Using a variety of lenses historical, sociological, journalistic Haines comprehensively documents both sides of the relationship between resettled refugees and their American hosts. Haines brings his long personal history with refugees dating to the Vietnam War era together with his skills and knowledge from academia and government service to weave a historical and contemporary tapestry of refugee life in America that is both personal and analytic. He correctly identifies, feels, and examines the pulse that runs through the uniquely American response to refugees as being based less on abstract universal principles than on the personal, parochial, and often political connections and considerations that tie or cut the bonds between refugees and their American hosts. As such, he shows the underlying tensions and contradictions of a relationship that is at once self-serving and generous, progressive and regressive, accepting and rejecting. Prior to the publication of Safe Haven? , the literature on refugees in US was fragmented, spread across a wide range of sources, and addressed disparate disciplines, historical periods, aspects of adaptation, nationality and religious groups, and policy concerns. As a consequence, readers were without an integrated, critical and comparative perspective on the topic. In this exquisitely researched, wide-ranging and beautifully written book, David Haines, the leading authority on American refugees, draws on four decades of personal involvement with the subject together with an exhaustive review of literature and data to historicize, contextualize and evaluate the experiences of refugees who have settled in the US since WWII. In so doing, he provides scholars, students, resettlement staff and policy makers with a detailed yet wide-ranging understanding of the experience of refugees in the United States. In so doing, the book provides invaluable lessons about both the refugees as well as the society that they are joining. Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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