This second edition of John Hudson's well-known textbook comes 18 years after the first edition. Hudson says regional geography "tends to be long on facts", and offers "a framework for those facts and an interpretation of their relevance ... " (xv). That's common in textbooks, but I think it reduces the value of those many references (some textbooks in regional geography do have citations). [Extracted from the article]
*REFUGEES, *GEOGRAPHY, *QUALITY of life, *UNDOCUMENTED immigrants, *PARENTS, *AFGHANS
Abstract
The last part of this book, "Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism", presents a fair and accurate representation of refugee populations in the field of critical geographies of migration. In this section of the book, the authors provide an essential insight into the politics of asylum and refugees. Yolan Weima and Jennifer Hyndman's contribution (Chapter 2) raises the issue of the traditional refugee management regime, which characterizes refugees as passive and apolitical. [Extracted from the article]