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  4. Human Geography
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Human Geography

This guide highlights the resources for Human Geography, the study of human settlements in their places.
  • Defining human geography
  • Cultural geography
  • Economic geography
  • Feminist geography
  • Migration studies
    • Migration and detention
    • Diaporas
    • Refugees
    • Statelessness
  • Political geography
    • Feminist political geography
  • Geopolitics
  • Population studies
  • Place
  • Travel and tourism
  • Urban geography
    • The City
    • Gentrification
    • Redlining
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Films about refugees

Find more films about refugees in the library's online catalog.

  • ImageAugust 14, 1961 by Universal Newsreels
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    Call Number: Streaming video
    This newsreel, produced by Universal Pictures Company, features the closing of the border in East Berlin.
  • Als Paul über das Meer kam: Tagebuch einer Begegnung by Jakob Preuss
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    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    An unusual friendship grows in a politically problematic context. Paul is a migrant from Cameroon. He has made his way across the Sahara to the Moroccan coast where he now lives in a forest waiting for the right moment to cross the Mediterranean Sea. This is where he meets Jakob, a filmmaker from Berlin, who is filming along Europe's borders. After Paul manages to cross over to Spain on a rubber boat, he meets Jakob again at a shelter for migrants. When Paul decides to continue on from Spain to Germany, Jakob has to decide: will he become an active part of Paul's pursuit of a better life? Or remain a detached filmmaker?
  • Resource logoPBS NewsHour. What asylum-seekers meet when they try to cross legally by NewsHour Productions
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    Call Number: Streaming video
    U.S. officials have maintained that potential asylum-seekers entering at legal border crossings will not be prosecuted and will be processed in turn. But the process isn't always that easy. In a cross-border report from Juarez and El Paso, Amna Nawaz follows a grandmother and granddaughter who are fleeing cartel violence.
  • Movie poster artWe cannot go there now, my dear by Carol Mansour
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    Call Number: Streaming video
    We Cannot Go There Now, My Dear highlights the story of Palestinian refugees that have been living in Syria since they had been forced to flee Palestine in 1948. As the Syrian crisis intensifies, they alongside the Syrians have been affected by the war. Their story, however, is more complex. By fleeing Syria and seeking refuge in Lebanon they are becoming a special category of refugees: they are refugees twice over. As Palestinians they are not entirely welcome in Lebanon. As refugees, their travel documents are not recognized. As Palestinians, this is the second time they lose everything and find themselves once more homeless and stateless. ...

A short definition for "refugee"

A person forced from their home and seeking refuge, usually in another country. Refugees within countries are termed internally displaced persons (IDPs), and they usually outnumber those who have crossed international boundaries. In international law, the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 (amended 1967) defines a refugee as:

‘A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.’

Refugees conventionally described individuals fleeing oppression imposed by their home country governments, e.g. Jews in Nazi Germany. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also includes people forced from home by conflict, e.g. from the Darfur region of Sudan. The UN recognizes as a separate category those Palestinians who fled or were forced from the land currently constituting the state of Israel; they are administered by a separate agency, the UNRWA. In recent years, humanitarian agencies and academics have popularized the idea of environmental refugees displaced by natural disasters, e.g. by Hurricane Katrina from New Orleans.  ...

Rogers, A., Castree, N., & Kitchin, R. (2013). Refugee. In A Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 15 Sep. 2023

Finding resources in the library's collections

  • refugees
  • refugee childrens
  • statelessness

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover ArtRefugees: a very short introduction by Gil Loescher
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    ISBN: 9780198811787
    Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even today, the international community struggles to provide an adequate response to this vast population in need. This Very Short Introduction covers a broad range of issues around the causes and impact of the contemporary refugee crisis for both receiving states and societies, for global order, and for refugees and other forced migrants themselves. ...
  • Cover ArtThe refugee system: a sociological approach by Rawan Arar; David Scott FitzGerald
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry HV 640 .A73 2023
    ISBN: 9781509542789
    Some people facing violence and persecution flee. Others stay. How do households in danger decide who should go, where to relocate, and whether to keep moving? What are the conditions in countries of origin, transit, and reception that shape people's options? This incisive book tells the story of how one Syrian family, spread across several countries, tried to survive the civil war and live in dignity. This story forms a backdrop to explore and explain the refugee system. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover ArtThe global shelter imaginary: Ikea humanitarianism and rightless relief by Andrew Herscher; Daniel Bertrand Monk
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781517912222
    Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation's Better Shelter to Airbnb's Open Homes program, the consumer economy has engaged the global refugee crisis with seemingly new tactics that normalize an institutionally sanctioned politics of evasion. Exploring "the global shelter imaginary," this book charts the ways shelter functions as a form of rightless relief that expels recognition of the rights of the displaced and advances political paradoxes of displacement itself.
  • Cover ArtImmigrant and refugee children and families: culturally responsive practice by Alan Dettlaff; Rowena Fong, eds.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780231172851
    Designed for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families provides the best knowledge for culturally responsive practice with immigrant children, adolescents, and families. ...
  • Cover ArtRefugees on the move: crisis and response in Turkey and Europe by Erol Balkan; Zümray Kutlu Tonak, eds.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781800733855
    Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. It examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, the difficulties they face during their journeys, the daily challenges and obstacles they experience, and host governments' attempts to manage and overcome the so-called "refugee crisis."
  • Cover ArtRefuge in a moving world: tracing refugee and migrant journeys across disciplines by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, ed.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781787353183
    The journeys and experiences of refugees and migrants are deeply complex and highly varied. It takes critical reflections from a diverse range of fields and angles to communicate the nuanced tangles of power structures and inequalities on local, national, and international levels. Bringing together over thirty contributions, Refuge in a Moving World discusses migration and displacement from a kaleidoscopic collection of voices. ...

Other library resource(s)

  • Cover ArtGeography of refugees from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Jessie Clark
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199874002
    While there is debate about terminology, ‘refugee’ broadly defined refers to people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. In 2019, there were 26 million refugees, 45.7 million internally displaced persons, and 4.2 million asylum seekers according to the UNHCR. By legal definition, refugees are those who cross international borders and are legally processed in another country; asylum seekers are those seeking legal protections in other countries; and internally displaced persons (IDPs) are individuals who have been displaced within the boundaries of their country. ...

Internet resource(s)

  • Department of Homeland Security logo
    Refugees and Asylees from Homeland Security
    • Link
    A refugee is a person outside his or her country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. An asylee is a person who meets the definition of refugee and is already present in the United States or is seeking admission at a port of entry. ...
  • Department of Homeland Security logo
    Refugees and Asylees Annual Flow Reports
    • Database
    • Link
    The Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS) annual flow reports on refugees and asylees contain information obtained from the Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS) of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the U.S. Department of State on the numbers and demographic profiles of persons admitted to the United States as refugees, and those applying for and granted asylum status during a given fiscal year. ...
  • Matter of Fact logo
    Statelessness stories from Matter of Fact
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    Three stories about stateless immigrants.

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