Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees

<p>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. </p><p>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 security hope and belonging. Much of the efforts of refugees migrants and exiles are devoted to rebuilding a home through a combination of personal effort and collaboration with the political and social environment of the host community. Maria Sophia Aguirre and Antonio Argandoña bring together an interdisciplinary collection of contributors to analyse these challenges through the lenses of economics law sociology psychology communications management and political science. The book offers numerous suggestions for assistance aimed not only at the short-term problems of displaced people but also at ensuring their human dignity. </p><p>This volume will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of migration and of public policy related to the handling of migrants. </p>