Jeff B Crisp

The Story of an African Working Class: Ghanaian Miners' Struggles 1870-1980 (African History Archive)

Vividly telling the story of Ghana’s gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa, Jeff Crisp details the workers’ struggle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments, and authoritarian trade union leaders. Drawing on a wide range of original sourc...

The Refugee Convention at Fifty: A View from Forced Migration Studies (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies)

The year 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The Refugee Convention at Fifty is a commemorative volume, but it is one that points toward a future that will see a continued need for refugee protection. The volume performs a much-needed task for t...

Flucht als Politik - Berichte von fünf Kontinenten

Escape can be defined in terms of people leaving spatial situations in which they undergo, or feel endangered by violence or other disadvantages. Cases of escape have an enormous spectrum, and the political dimensions are identifiable in each of these cases. On the one hand they can be seen as direc...

The Refugee Convention at Fifty: A View from Forced Migration Studies (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies)

The year 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. The Refugee Convention at Fifty is a commemorative volume, but it is one that points toward a future that will see a continued need for refugee protection. The volume performs a much-needed task for t...

Poverty, International Migration and Asylum (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)

This book examines the economics of immigration and asylum migration, focusing on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context.

The Story of an African Working Class: Ghanaian Miners' Struggles, 1870-1980 (African History Archive)

This seminal work tells the story of Ghana's gold miners, one of the oldest and most militant groups of workers in Africa. It is a story of struggle against exploitative mining companies, repressive governments, and authoritarian trade union leaders. Drawing on a wide range of original sources, incl...

Refugees, persons of concern, and people on the move: the broadening boundaries of UNHCR.(Report): An article from: Refuge

This digital document is an article from Refuge, published by Centre for Refugee Studies on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 2693 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. Y...

Voluntary repatriation programmes for African refugees: A critical examination (Refugee issues)

The First of the Few

Geoffrey Crisp is a fictional character based on an amalgam of Vickers's test pilots, Jeffrey Quill (also an RAF veteran) and "Mutt" Summers. Quill actually flies a ...