Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Confronting the World Crisis

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The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrants—voluntary and involuntary, internal and international, authorized and unauthorized. In the first two decades of this century alone, more than 65 million people have been forced to escape home into the unknown. The slow-motion disintegration of failing states with feeble institutions, war and terror, demographic imbalances, unchecked climate change, and cataclysmic environmental disruptions have contributed to the catastrophic migrations that are placing millions of human beings at grave risk.   Humanitarianism and Mass Migration fills a scholarly gap by examining the uncharted contours of mass migration. Exceptionally curated, it contains contributions from Jacqueline Bhabha, Richard Mollica, Irina Bokova, Pedro Noguera, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, James A. Banks, Mary Waters, and many others. The volume’s interdisciplinary and comparative approach showcases new research that reveals how current structures of health, mental health, and education are anachronistic and out of touch with the new cartographies of mass migrations. Envisioning a hopeful and realistic future, this book provides clear and concrete recommendations for what must be done to mine the inherent agency, cultural resources, resilience, and capacity for self-healing that will help forcefully displaced populations.   Cover HUMANITARIANISM AND MASS MIGRATION Title Copyright CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Catastrophic Migrations PART ONE. THE NEW CARTOGRAPHY OF MASS MIGRATION 1. Unchecked Climate Change and Mass Migration: A Probabilistic Case for Urgent Action 2. A Migration Becomes an Emergency: The Flight of Women and Children from the Northern Triangle and Its Antecedents PART TWO. FRAMES ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH ON THE MOVE 3. Children on the Move in the Twenty-First Century: Developing a Rights-Based Plan of Action 4. A Compassionate Perspective on Immigrant Children and Youth PART THREE. CATASTROPHIC MIGRANT LIVES AT THE MARGINS 5. The New H5 Model: Trauma and Recovery 6. Addressing Mental Health Disparities in Refugee Children through Family and Community-Based Prevention 7. Surveying the Hard-to-Survey: Refugees and Unaccompanied Minors in Greece 8. Mitigating the Impact of Forced Displacement and Refugee and Unauthorized Status on Youth: Integrating Developmental Processes with Intervention Research PART FOUR. THE WORK OF EDUCATION IN THE TRANSITIONS OF IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE YOUTH 9. Empowering Global Citizens for a Just and Peaceful World 10. Inclusion and Membership through Refugee Education? Tensions between Policy and Practice 11. Civic Education for Noncitizen and Citizen Students: A Conceptual Framework 12. Refugees in Education: What Can Science Education Contribute? 13. Lost in Transit: Education for Refugee Children in Sweden, Germany, and Turkey 14. From the Crisis of Connection to the Pursuit of Our Common Humanity: The Role of Schools in Responding to the Needs of Immigrant and Refugee Children 15. Children of Immigrants in the United States: Barriers and Paths to Integration and Well-Being 16. Improving the Education and Social Integration of Immigrant Students Epilogue: Pope Francis on Migration Contributors Index