From Refugees to Royalty

From Refugees to Royalty
Author: John Hilary
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780720621068

Nymans is one of the National Trust's most popular properties, a vision of English tradition amid a landscape of rolling woodland. Yet appearances can be deceptive. The manor house is just a hundred years old, and the Messel family who built it were not English aristocracy but German Jewish immigrants. The vision was their triumphant creation. From Refugees to Royalty is the first book to chart the extraordinary journey of the Messel family from their roots in Germany to their new life in England. At the heart of the story lies an astonishing irony. The earliest Messels were turned into refugees by an edict of the British royal family, when George III issued a decree expelling the Jews. Two hundred years later, the wheel came full circle when the youngest Messel, Tony Armstrong-Jones, walked down the aisle with Princess Margaret, four times great-granddaughter of George III. John Hilary is a great-great-grandson of Ludwig Messel, who founded the garden at Nymans. In this beautifully illustrated book, full of colour, heartache and celebrity, he documents the rich cultural legacy of the Messels as world-famous designers, collectors, scientists and architects.

We Were Royal Refugees

We Were Royal Refugees
Author: Chris Karuhije
Publisher: Word Alive Press
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2018-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1486615627

Six. That was the number of people killed every minute of every hour of the day, for one hundred days. The dead lay there mutilated, raped, disfigured, and dismembered. They were strewn across the African countryside, piled up in empty churches, and thrown in the lakes and rivers. Alphonse and Thacienne had their dream life. They were in love, they had five children, and they pastored a great church in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali. But in 1994 it all came to a cataclysmic end as almost one million people were slaughtered in an eruption of violence that lasted three months. As Alphonse is trapped in his church fighting to stay alive, Thacienne embarks on a courageous journey to get her children to safety, holding hope that she will be reunited with her husband. Written by one of the survivors,We Were Royal Refugees is the gripping and heart-wrenching true story of the horror, loss, forgiveness, and triumph of a family in one of the worst tragedies in modern history, the Rwandan genocide.

Governing Refugees

Governing Refugees
Author: Kirsten McConnachie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 113505133X

Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognized as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive. This book examines camp management and the administration of justice in refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border. Emphasising the work of refugees themselves in coping with and adapting to encampment, it considers themes of agency, sovereignty and legal pluralism in an analysis of local governance and the production of order beyond the state. Governing Refugees will appeal to anyone with relevant interests in law, anthropology and criminology, as well as those working in the area of refugee studies.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Author: Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 904
Release: 1927
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.

Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts

Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1907
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

First to ninth reports, 1870-1883/84, with appendices giving reports on unpublished manuscripts in private collections; Appendices after v. [15a] pt. 10 issued without general title.

The Royal Navy and the Palestine Patrol

The Royal Navy and the Palestine Patrol
Author: Ninian Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135283508

This is an entirely new Naval Staff History covering the period immediately after the Second World War and the Royal Navy operations to prevent illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine, at the time under British Mandate from the United Nations. The Palestine Patrol, as it became known, illustrates clearly the problems facing navies conducting operations other than war; in particular those involving maritime embargo measures.

DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border

DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2007-07-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780215035493

Burma suffers both from immense poverty and human rights abuses but it receives the lowest aid of all Least Developed Countries. The Committee believe that the international community must find a way to increase funding to the growing number of vulnerable people, especially those who have been forcibly displaced. As one of only four donors with staffed offices in Burma, DFID is in a lead position to help these people. Although it has quadrupled its Burma budget over the last six years, the Committee think that this should be scaled up and include specific funding for cross-border assistance. DFID's plan to relocate the management of its programme from Bangkok to Rangoon is criticised because it is thought that, to fully and independently engage with cross border assistance, a presence is needed in Thailand.

Refugees in the Age of Total War

Refugees in the Age of Total War
Author: Anna C. Bramwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000459578

This book, first published in 1988, charts society’s responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War. At the close of the war large areas of Europe lay in ruins, and large numbers of refugees faced upheaval and famine. Political considerations influenced the decisions as to who received assistance, and refugees were forcibly repatriated or resettled – and in the analysis of these matters and more, both the refugee crises of the 1940s and their relevance today are highlighted.

Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Asia Pacific Region

Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons in the Asia Pacific Region
Author: Angus Francis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317074254

The chapters in this book explore the impact of recent shifts in global and regional power and the subsequent development and enforcement of international refugee protection standards in the Asia Pacific region. Drawing on their expertise across a number of jurisdictions, the contributors assess the challenges confronting the implementation of international law in the region, as well as new opportunities for extending protection norms into national and regional dialogues. The case studies span key jurisdictions across the region and include a comparative analysis with China, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Australia. This topical and important book raises critical questions for the Asia Pacific region and sheds light on the challenges confronting the protection of refugees and displaced persons in this area. Interdisciplinary in its approach, it will be of interest to academics, researchers, students and policy-makers concerned with the rights and protection of refugees.