Prof. Abdelmonem’s presentation at the United Nations | May 2024

Care in the Home, Care of the Common Home

The Search for Home among Forced Migrants and Refugees: People on the Move | Routledge

 

This book is now available for pre-order on October 18, 2024. Item will ship after November 8, 2024

  • CONTENTS

Introduction
Maria Sophia Aguirre

Part I: Analysis of Experience: Listening

1. Families Seeking Peace and Dignity: The Search for “Home” Among Forced Migrants and Refugees
Monsignor Robert J. Vitillo

2. Making a Digital Home? Homeliness at Times of Digital Co-presences and Absences
Myria Georgiou

3. Home Life and Familial Experiences of Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers with Young Children in the United States
Sandra Barrueco and John Paul Ryan

Part II: Practices that Effectively Assist in the Reconstruction of Home

4. Syrian Experiences of Forced Displacement: Resettlement and Remaking Home in Canada
Suzan Ilcan

5. The Case of Venezuelan International Migrants and How a Friendly Colombian Migration Policy Fostered Integration into Society
Magaly Sanchez-R

6. Investing for Inclusion: How Refugee Lens Investing Can Facilitate the Inclusion of the Forcibly Displaced into Local Host Communities
Christine Mahoney and John Kluge

Part III: Policy Recommendations

7. The Concept of “Home” in Human Rights Discourse with Special Reference to the Needs of Displaced Persons
Robert A. Destro

8. Building Home in U.S. Immigrant Integration and Inclusion Policies and Initiatives
Kelly Ryan and Heather Salfrank Joseph

Towards a sustainable and home-based economy: The changing landscape of work-life balance and the societal and environmental Impact of working from home as a business model

Remote economy and home-based work: digital homes changing economic and Work/Life balance

Schools as homes: educational environments, resilience and Architecture

Connected homes for older People: Role of family and locality in combating Climate Change

Net-Zero Homes as localities of households, neighborhoods, and natural environments

A community-centered approach to sustainable living and decision making: Campus BioMedico’ Social Green Master Plan as a case study

The effect of people’s behavior on the energy consumed in domestic heating, cooking and transportation