Book Reviews

I plan to make a more concerted effort to highlight book reviews, both in full-text and in bibliographic form (e.g., like those that are published in newly available journals). Below are some reviews I came across recently. They can be found via a variety of sources including:

Book Review Sites:

Excluded from the Record: Women, Refugees and Relief, 1914-1929, by Katherine Storr. Peter Lang Publishing, 2010 [text]
- Posted on H-Net Reviews; use search to locate additional reviews; general RSS feed available.

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives, ed. by Susan Kneebone. Cambridge University Press, 2009 [text]
- Posted on Law & Politics Book Review; use search to locate additional reviews; general RSS feed available.

Journals (although note that these tend to require a subscription to access the full-text):

Materialising Exile: Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in Thailand, by Sandra Dudley. Berghahn Books, 2010 [citation]
- Reviewed in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.

Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills, and Advocacy, ed. by Fernando Chang-Muy and Elaine Congress. Springer, 2008 [text]
- Reviewed in the Journal of Global Social Work Practice.

News Sources:

Climate Refugees, by Collectif Argos. MIT Press, 2010 [text]
- Article in the National Catholic Reporter.

Repositories:

The Human Rights of Non-Citizens, by David Weissbrodt. Oxford University Press, 2008 [text]
- Posted on bepress Legal Repository.


And if you would like to review a book yourself, consider one of the titles listed on the Human Rights & Human Welfare site!

Tagged Publications.