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"James Grippando's crusader Jack Swyteck is back in his sixteenth adventure, a timely and pulse-pounding thriller"--
Julia Rodriguez and her teenage daughter Beatriz escaped bloodthirsty gangs, random violence and, Julia's abusive husband back in El Salvador. Arriving in Miami, mother and daughter struggled to carve their own piece of the American dream. While life in the States is hard, it is safer, until Julia's rejects her boss's unwanted sexual...
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Recipient of Christianity Today's Award of Merit in Politics and Public Life, 2016
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What will rule our hearts: fear or compassion?
We can't ignore the refugee crisis—arguably the greatest geo-political issue of our time—but how do we even begin to respond to something so massive and complex?
In Seeking Refuge, three experts from World Relief, a global
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"A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket...
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What is it like to be a young mother threatened with deportation to the country whose government has imprisoned you and whose soldiers have raped and tortured you? You don't want to leave your children behind, but how can you take them with you, knowing that your homeland, ruled by chaos and violence, is notorious for murdering failed asylum seekers? Regina Bakala found herself in just this situation ten years after escaping the Congo and settling...
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"The book is a triptych, beginning with the mutiny on the Hermione and the ensuing manhunt for members of her crew. The second section recounts the arrival of a handful of mutineers in the United States, including Jonathan Robbins, before examining in depth the political crisis that engulfed John Adams and the Federalist Party. The final three chapters focus on the election of 1800 and the protracted consequences of Robbins's martyrdom during the...
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This eye-opening documentary investigates the strange case of Anonymous hacktivist Matt DeHart, who fled the US to seek asylum in Canada after law enforcement brought charges against him for child pornography. But DeHart countered that he was framed, targeted for his support of Wikileaks, and that he was tortured in a US prison. Unfolding like a spy mystery, the film follows a multiyear quest for truth, with unexpected twists and turns until the very...
7) Human flow
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"Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change, and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. HUMAN FLOW, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretches...
8) Human flow
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"Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured...
9) Moolaadé
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Set in a small village, four young girls face ritual "purification" decide to flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from the mutilation. Collé invokes the time-honored custom of moolaadé (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives, and tension mounts as the ensuing stand-off pits Collé against village traditionalists. This endangers the prospective marriage of her daughter...
10) Asylum seekers
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Explores the history of the asylum process in North America, as well as the step-by-step process by which a person receives asylum. Includes examples of cases in which people have found safe haven in the United States and Canada.
13) Saint Judy
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The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood as she represents and fights for Asefa Ashwari, an Afghan woman who was forced to flee her home country after being persecuted by the Taliban for opening a school for girls. Despite setbacks and losses, their efforts culminate in arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as they seek to save not only Asefa's life, but countless others across the world.
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"Through the pages of this book, I invite you into various spaces of sanctuary--not as places of retreat, but for the deepened resistance, vision, and transformation that these days, and the gospel, require." Throughout her nearly forty years in ministry, Heidi Neumark has strived to make communities of faith into sanctuaries amid the turmoils of life. Now, with the social and political upheaval of the years since Donald Trump was elected president,...
16) Asylees
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Discusses the asylum process, differences between asylees and refugees, specific asylum cases, and changes in the laws since the 1960s and particularly since September 11, 2001.
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Justice League of America (2006) volume 4
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"The Justice League of America--the greatest heroes of Earth--first united to protect mankind from the gravest threats and most dangerous villains imaginable. But what happens when some of those very villains break into the League's headquarters... looking for protection? A covert task force has been kidnapping super-powered criminals and transporting them off-planet--where they're never heard from again. To avoid this fate, powerful super-villains...
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"Forty years ago, Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980 to protect people who flee persecution to seek safety in the United States. This legislation adopted a refugee definition based on the UN Refugee Convention and prescribed equitable and transparent procedures for a uniform asylum process. Until the Trump administration, this commitment to protect asylum seekers who had reached our borders was honored by Republican and Democratic administrations...
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Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue-either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case studies that analyze the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the contributors explore how states use evidentiary requirements...
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In this indictment of America's asylum process, two Haitian migrants find their lives in stasis after their journey through multiple countries stalls at the US-Mexico border in Tijuana. When friends Robens and James are separated, this contemplative look at a bond forged through struggle shifts into a moving exploration of the longing to discover one's place, and the barriers, both figurative and all too literal, that stand in the way.
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