| Religion, Spirituality, and the Refugee Experience in Melbourne, Australia, 1990s-2010 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Ennis, Susan P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 113756377X ISBN-13: 9781137563774 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Security - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Political Science | Peace |
| Dewey: 200.869 |
| LCCN: 2015034939 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.98 lbs) 237 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An in-depth study of selected refugees from Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan, this book examines the relationship between the refugees' religious and spiritual beliefs and the refugee experience. Susan P. Ennis takes a close look at the circumstances of refugees' flight, their asylum, and their initial period of settlement in Melbourne, Australia during the period between the nineteen nineties and the early twenty-first century. Ennis finds that a sense of religiosity seemed to aid the refugees, in some way, during all stages of their journey. Furthermore, nearly half of the refugees she studied reported a shift in their religiosity over the course of their emigration. Based on her research, Ennis puts forward a framework of religiosity and the refugee experience grounded in shifting typologies at each stage of the refugee journey. |