Mistrusting Refugees

Bys: E. Valentine Daniel, Lal Jayawardena, John Chr. Knudsen

Book Overview

The twentieth century has seen people displaced on an unprecedented scale and has brought concerns about refugees into sharp focus. There are forty million refugees in the world--1 in 130 inhabitants of this planet. In this first interdisciplinary study of the issue, fifteen scholars from diverse fields focus on the worldwide disruption of "trust" as a sentiment, a concept, and an experience.

Contributors provide a rich array of essays that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520088999
• ISBN13: 9780520088993
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"