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The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move book cover

1st Edition

The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees People on the Move

Edited By Maria Sophia Aguirre, Antonio Argandoña Copyright 2025
198 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the role of "home" in the lives of displaced people, including voluntary and forced migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people and temporary workers. For displaced people, home is something lost, longed for and sometimes found anew. It is a community of people in an environment of relationships and a physical dwelling that provide a sense of safety,... Read more

Introduction
Maria Sophia Aguirre

Part I: Analysis of Experience: Listening

1. Families Seeking Peace and Dignity: The Search for “Home” Among Forced Migrants and Refugees
Monsignor Robert J. Vitillo

2. Making a Digital Home? Homeliness at Times of Digital Co-presences and Absences
Myria Georgiou

3. Home Life and Familial Experiences of Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers with Young Children in the United States
Sandra Barrueco and John Paul Ryan

Part II: Practices that Effectively Assist in the Reconstruction of Home

4. Syrian Experiences of Forced Displacement: Resettlement and Remaking Home in Canada
Suzan Ilcan

5. The Case of Venezuelan International Migrants and How a Friendly Colombian Migration Policy Fostered Integration into Society
Magaly Sanchez-R

6. Investing for Inclusion: How Refugee Lens Investing Can Facilitate the Inclusion of the Forcibly Displaced into Local Host Communities
Christine Mahoney and John Kluge

Part III: Policy Recommendations

7. The Concept of “Home” in Human Rights Discourse with Special Reference to the Needs of Displaced Persons
Robert A. Destro

8. Building Home in U.S. Immigrant Integration and Inclusion Policies and Initiatives
Kelly Ryan and Heather Salfrank Joseph

Biography

Maria Sophia Aguirre is Ordinary Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Catholic University of America.

Antonio Argandoña is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business Ethics at the IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain.

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