Urban Refugees

Koichi Koizumi, Professor in the Faculty of International Relations at Daito Bunka University, Tokyo.Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland.

• Introduction: Between a rock and a hard place: Urban refugees in a global context 1. Demonstrable needs: Protest, politics and refugees in Cairo 2. Casamance refugees in urban locations of The Gambia 3. The politics of mistrust: Congolese refugees and the institutions providing refugee protection in Kampala, Uganda 4. Increasing urban refugee protection in Nairobi: Political will or additional resources? 5. Practices of reception and integration of urban refugees: The case of Ravenna, Italy 6. Surviving the city: Refugees from Burma in New Delhi 7. Life in limbo: Unregistered urban refugees on the Thai–Burma Border 8. Urban refugees and the UNHCR in Kuala Lumpur: Dependency, assistance and survival 9. The Japanese pilot resettlement programme: Identifying constraints to domestic integration of refugees from Burma 10. Coping as an asylum seeker in Japan: Burmese in Shinjuku, Tokyo 11. Postscript:

"Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy is the first edited volume to tackle the topic of urban refugees and their survival ‘‘between a rock and a hard place". (…) this edited collection serves not only as a useful introduction to the phenomenon of urban refugees but will also be relevant to those with a particular interest in the refugee situation in one of the cities or countries covered." - Neil James Wilson, City University of London