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Costa Rica has a long-established humanitarian tradition as a country of asylum for refugees fleeing repressive regimes in other South American countries. Salvadorean refugees began arriving in Costa Rica in 1980, and many of them received assistance directed at making them self-sufficient. In Keeping Heads Above Water Tanya Basok focuses on the urban development programs funded and implemented by various international and domestic, governmental and non-governmental agencies. Basing her study on extensive field-work with Salvadorean refugees, she addresses the questions of why some small urban refugee enterprises failed, and how and why others survived and flourished.

Salvadorans --- Political refugees --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees --- Salvadoreans --- Salvadorians --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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"During the violent years of war marking Cuba's final push for independence from Spain, over 3,000 Cuban emigres, men and women, rich and poor, fled to Mexico.... Mexico was a key site ... from which the expatriates helped launch a mobile and politically active Cuban diaspora around the Gulf of Mexico"--

Political refugees --- Cubans --- Ethnology --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees --- Political activity --- History --- Caribbean Area --- Cuba

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Political refugees --- Social conditions. --- Australia --- Emigration and immigration. --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Refugees

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Dieser Band enthält die Dokumentation der ersten wissenschaftlichen Fachtagung zum Thema Flüchtlingskonversionen. Die internationalen Beitragenden beleuchten das Phänomen aus sozial- und religionswissenschaftlicher, philoso-phischer und theologischer, juristischer, politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Seit 2015 nimmt die Zahl geflohener Menschen aus mehrheitlich muslimischen Ländern, die sich im Lauf ihrer Migrationsgeschichte dem Christentum zuwenden, stark zu. Die Situation christlicher Kirchen und Gruppierungen in den Herkunftsländern befindet sich im Umbruch, und die europäischen Kirchen treffen auf neuartige Glaubensbiographien und Konversionsnarrative. Die aufnehmenden Zivilgesellschaften stehen vor einer großen Integrationsaufgabe, und die bleiberechtlichen Konsequenzen von Flüchtlingskonversionen stellen den Staat vor Herausforderungen. Die wissenschaftliche Befassung mit den vielschichtigen Aspekten des Themas ist eine dringende Aufgabe, die die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes interdisziplinär in Angriff nehmen.

Migration --- Religionswechsel --- Bleiberecht --- Taufe --- Kongressband --- Interdisziplinarität --- migration --- religious conversion --- asylum seekers --- baptism --- conference volume --- Europe.

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Since 2015, Germany has been hosting noticeable incoming flows of refugees and asylum seekers, leading, in 2020, the ranking of European countries and being the fifth in the world ranking for the number of hosted refugees. Despite the quality of life of refugees is expected to be improved in the aftermath of their arrival to Germany, refugees are still facing several problems of integration and economic deprivation (e.g., about 90% are unemployed). Hence, it is a worthwhile exercise to study how satisfied they are with their present life. Using a sample of 3,408 individuals from the German IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (regarding refugees and asylum seekers who came to the country between January 2013 and January 2016), we present some preliminary analyses on the life satisfaction (LS) of these vulnerable individuals. Particularly, satisfaction levels were arranged by quartile and an ordinal regression model was estimated to focus on the association among levels of LS and main socio-demographic characteristics. Syrians experience worst perceived quality of life (LS), such as older and higher educated people, other things being equal. Uncertainty, due to their legal status or to lesser support received by law, may explain that those with dismissed or pending asylum application are less satisfied than refugees. Family arrangements, as expected, has an impact, other things being equal, on the overall life satisfaction: the higher the number of co-residing household members the higher the LS; cohabiting partner of spouse affect positively LS. Noticeably, LS is positively associated with satisfaction in specific domains such as health, privacy in the current living arrangement, and neighbourhood safety. Interesting insights come out for policy design.

Social research & statistics --- Well-being --- quality of life --- asylum seekers --- IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey --- of Refugees