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Author Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena, 1978- author.

Title South-south educational migration, humanitarianism and development : views from Cuba, North Africa and the Middle East / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 157 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in development, mobilities, and migration
Routledge studies in development, mobilities, and migration.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1 South-South educational migration and development; 2 South-South cooperation: from dependency to self-sufficiency?; 3 The Cuban-MENA educational migration nexus: views from the Caribbean; 4 Paradoxes of educational migration to Cuba: views from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria; 5 Solidarity, ideology and circumstantial humanitarianism: views from the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon; 6 Libyan hostipitality through Sahrawi and Palestinian eyes
Summary This ground-breaking book is one of the first to analyse the important phenomenon of South-South educational migration for refugees. It focuses particularly on South-South scholarship programmes in Cuba and Libya, which have granted free education to children, adolescents and young adults from two of the world's most protracted refugee situations: Sahrawis and Palestinians. Through in-depth multi-sited fieldwork conducted with and about Sahrawi and Palestinian refugee students in Cuba and Libya, and following their return to the desert-based Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria and the urban Palest
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Economic development -- Developing countries
Economic development -- Cuba
Economic development -- Africa, North
Economic development -- Middle East
Humanitarianism -- Developing countries
Humanitarianism -- Cuba
Humanitarianism -- Africa, North
Humanitarianism -- Middle East
Emigration and immigration.
migrations (events)
Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
emigration.
immigration.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic development
Emigration and immigration
Humanitarianism
North Africa
Cuba
Developing countries
Middle East
Form Electronic book
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