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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Political refugees"”.
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Dockings : transitional housing for political refugees, Stockholm, Sweden
… define and delineate the unfamiliar society; for refugees, any period of assimilation is also likely to include the need for recovery from involuntary losses and psychological traumas that may have been both the motivation for leaving and part of the journey. This is a process that takes emotion, …
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Exploring Iranian political refugees’ experiences in Britain - phoenix rises from the ashes - an existential-phenomenological study
… spiralling crisis for host countries and for the refugees themselves needs to be addressed psychologically, as well as politically and sociologically. This study focuses on the lived experience of nine Iranian political refugees in the UK. My main sampling criterion is the willingness of …
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Space-times of Exile: Mobility, Temporality, and Place-making among Kurdish and Left-wing Political Refugees from Turkey in Greece
… fieldwork among Kurdish and left-wing political refugees from Turkey and North Kurdistan (Eastern and Southeastern Turkey) in Greece between 2020 and 2022, this dissertation addresses questions of space and time in political exile as a lived experience of displacement/emplacement. Since …
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British extradition policy and the problem of the political offender (1842-1914)
… with particular reference to the definition of political offences and the position of political refugees in extradition law and practice. The attention of policy-makers and public opinion was always mainly focused upon these two issues, and this study will therefore concentrate upon them. In …
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Shelter, Knowledge, Activism: A Refuge in the Canadian Forest for Political Exiles and Intellectual Dissidents of Totalitarian Regimes
… project, a retreat for scholars, activists and political refugees, expresses my belief in protecting the intellectual freedoms and the rights of those being persecuted by totalitarian powers for voicing their ideas and opinions. Beyond a remote village in Gatineau Park, the project proposes to …
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Ukrainian Ostarbeiters in Canada: Individual and Collective Remembering
… tendency to generalize all DPs under the title “political refugees” without distinguishing Ostarbeiters as a separate category within this group. This thesis addresses the historiographical gap mentioned above. It establishes background that is essential for readers’ understanding of the …
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"""Stories from our people"": immigrants, brokers, and literacy as affinity"
… investment as it unfolds in the lives of political refugees (Chapter three) and economic immigrants (Chapter four). The regulation of the personal through documents and institutional bureaucracies creates spaces of in-betweenness where brokers intervene to facilitate mediation. Such spaces …
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Arriving in limbo : the experience of refugee integration
Throughout the years refugees have been considered as displaced and homeless people, deprived from policies concerning them, especially strategies for integration. This situation causes considerable difficulty in the process of their settlement and as a result difficulty in the process of …