Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Asylum Seeker"”.
-
The right to education of asylum seeker and refugee children
This research reviews the application of the law on the right of refugee children to education and the challenges inhibiting this right. Radical changes in the legal framework protecting refugee children's right to education has occurred since South Africa became a democratic state in 1994. The …
-
The Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in the Republic of Ireland: A Social Movement Perspective
… is an in-depth analysis of the Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in the Republic of Ireland between 1994 and 2004. It seeks to understand and analyse this development of the Grassroots Pro-Asylum Seeker Movement in Ireland from a social movement perspective. The movement itself contains …
-
More than a Game? Exploring Sport's Role in Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Settlement in Glasgow, Scotland
Up until recently, refugees and asylum-seekers, and even more so, the relationship between sport and settlement, has generally been written out of discussions surrounding sport for development (SFD). This study seeks to fill some of this lacuna through a critical analysis of a grassroots, community …
-
Geographies of Containment: Logics of Enclosure in Aboriginal and Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia's Northern Territory
… their consequences for people's everyday lives. Asylum seekers in Australia face policies of mandatory detention while they wait and hope for refugee status, and Darwin's many immigration detention centers have earned it the name `Detention Capital of Australia.' Aboriginal communities in the …
-
Liberal Democracy's Asylum Seeker Paradox: A Case Study of Australian Labor Party's Policies on Offshore Detention
This thesis asks why the Australian Labor Party was opposed to the policy of offshore detention for unauthorized maritime arrivals from 2002 to 2008, when they ended it, only to bring it back a few years later in 2011? The Australian Labor Party, the major left-wing party in Australia, campaigned …
-
Beyond the wire : Levinas vis-à-vis Villawood : a study of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy as an ethical foundation for asylum seeker policy
‘Beyond the Wire’ accounts for the seeker of asylum who unwittingly becomes entangled in the Australian detention regime. This thesis provides a lens through personal visits to Villawood Detention Centre—1999–2004—for studying the interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences behind the wire. …
-
An exploratory study of the role that identity documents play in the integration of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa: reflections from Cape Town
… the top regional destinations for refugees and asylum seekers. The South African government has chosen to adopt local integration as its main strategy in dealing with the refugees and asylum seekers it currently hosts, as opposed to housing refugees in camps. This step has been hailed as …
-
Barriers to access to mental health care services in the Cape Metropole, faced by refugee and asylum seeker women who have been exposed to trauma
Through use of a phenomenological design, this qualitative study investigated barriers to accessing mental health care by female refugees living in the Cape Metropole who have mental health problems as a result of exposure to trauma. A high number of female refugees in the Cape Metropole have been …
-
Supporting the integration of refugee and asylum-seeking health professionals into the South African Health System
… the integration challenges faced by refugee and asylum-seeking health professionals in gaining professional recognition and accessing employment in health professions in South Africa. Despite South Africa's progressive legal framework, practical pathways for qualification recognition and …
-
Dealt with on their merits? : the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK and France
This study examines the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK and France. The need for such a study arises from the apparent contradiction between, on the one hand, the commitment of EU states to give protection to people fleeing persecution (they are all signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention) …
-
The political representation of asylum seekers by migrant NGOs in Ireland: examining the policy and practice of deliberative engagement
… thesis explores the political representation of asylum seekers in Ireland through an examination of the policies and practices of migrant NGOs. The rationale for undertaking the study stems from an interest in the way asylum seeker participation is facilitated and a concern that despite the …
-
Legalising the illegal: an assessment of the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) and Zimbabwe Special Dispensation Permit (ZSP) regularisation projects
… of illegal migration and the clogging up of the asylum seeker management system in the early 2000s. In 2009, SA launched the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) in order to achieve four main objectives: to reduce pressure on the asylum management system, to curb the deportation of illegal …
-
The political origins and development of Australia’s people smuggling legislation: Evil smugglers or extreme rhetoric?
… response to the voyage facilitators of maritime asylum seekers, commonly known as ‘people smugglers’. It does so by examining a number of Parliamentary debates and previously confidential Cabinet papers. Negative depictions of asylum seekers and their voyage facilitators as well as the prevailing …
-
From Oppression to Education: Transgressing to Freedom?
… and constantly being positioned as a threat, an asylum seeker, as a person who is in the process to be recognised as a refugee, became a scapegoat of political agendas and discourses at the highest levels of the patriarchal structures. This study seeks to understand an impact of the Direct …
-
Into The Red: A Look into the Reasons Why Refugees Decide to Flee, Settle or Migrate to and from Morocco
… some of the main reasons why refugees and asylum seekers, particularly from sub-Saharan African countries, embark on a journey and decide to settle, flee or migrate to and from Morocco. Because of this phenomenon, Morocco has seen a 96% increase of refugees migrating to the borders of …
-
The use and formation of social networks among asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland
… use and formation of social networks among the asylum seeker and refugee population in Northern Ireland. The social network perspective considers the phenomenon of migration as being socially embedded and places social relationships as its most important feature. Whilst the significance of …
-
Meeting Needs with Therapy: Refugee and Therapist Experiences of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
… wellbeing, identifying that refugees and asylum seekers require help and support in many areas of their lives. One of the resources available to them in the UKis psychodynamic psychotherapy. This study was the first of its kind to explore the experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy from …
-
Asylum Seekers and Primary Care in Malta: A Critical Exploration of Healthcare Encounters
… of literature that highlights disparities in asylum seeker health and healthcare access and the difficulties that healthcare professionals face when providing care to asylum seekers and refugee populations. Few studies, however, have explored these processes within the context of Maltese …
-
POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION: VOICE, AUDIENCES, AND NARRATIVE AUTHORITY
… of the childhood story (Chapter One) and the ‘asylum story’ demanded of asylum seekers (Chapter Two). The second section is devoted to downright unnatural, anti-mimetic narrative forms. It focuses on two tropes of what has been labelled the Iraqi Gothic: the dead narrator (chapter Three), and …
Page 1 of 2