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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Refugee Community"”.
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Refugee community organisations: a social capital analysis
This thesis considers how refugee-led community organisations generate social capital for their service users. The concept of social capital has become popular in policy debates in recent years, and previous research has attributed social capital creation for their service users to refugee …
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Refugee Community Organisations working in partnership: The quest for recognition
… grassroots resolution to the problem of refugee housing, settlement and integration, at a time when large numbers of people were arriving seeking asylum in the UK. Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) were engaged by the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (hact) to work alongside …
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The Relationship Between Trauma, Acculturation, and Mental Health Symptoms in a Somali Refugee Community
… conflict in Somali has resulted in millions of refugees and internally displaced persons for more than three decades. More than 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in the United States, striking a need for additional research about mental health needs and pre-migration experiences that …
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Placing the lived experience(s) of TB in a refugee community in Auckland, New Zealand
… the lived experience of TB within the Somali refugee community in Auckland, New Zealand. While migrants and refugees are frequently blamed for the resurgence in TB in Western countries, very little is known about the determinants that underlie this manifestation of the disease. The present …
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Equipping Send Network Churches of Atlanta to Understand and Minister to the Refugee Community of Clarkston, Georgia
Clarkston is a unique city with a refugee population from many countries. It has been a place for churches from different states to bring mission teams for missional engagement. Clarkston should be a city where local churches can also engage refugees in their Great Commission work. Therefore, this …
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"Sometimes it's hard here to call someone to ask for help" : social capital in a refugee community in Portland, Maine
… of the total immigrant population in the U.S., refugees play a significant role in many cities and towns that have recently received substantial numbers of refugees but have little experience with immigrants. Despite their access to temporary resettlement services funded by the federal …
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A study of the South Sudanese refugees' perspectives of settlement in the western suburbs of Melbourne
The refugee community from the South Sudan is among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable community groups in Australia. Their settlement situation is problematic due to the many issues confronting them, including a lack of sufficient support services and language and employment barriers. Since …
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Interrogating community : dispersed refugees in Leeds
Community is a key and contested concept much used in social sciences and public policy, including asylum and immigration policies. The notion of refugee community is often utilized uncritically to apply to national, ethnic or other groups, yet the existence of 'community' cannot be assumed. Where …
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Microfinance Partnerships: A Bridge for Refugees
… examines the extension of microfinance to a refugee community; the objective focuses on economic assistance and a bridge to provide the required basic needs, as reported by the refugee population. With the global growth of refugees, the repositioning of refugees from either being cast aside …
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Ethnic identity among diaspora peoples: how globalization and migration reshape the people group phenomenon
… in this dissertation reveals that Nepali refugees in Louisville have developed several identities that sometimes overlap and contradict one another when one tries to classify this population into distinct units or ethnic groups. Self-identity is important for evangelical mission …
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The Other Self : representations of Afghans in Iranian cinema
… The films, most of which are about the Afghan refugee community in Iran, are studied in relation to the contemporaneous policies and rhetoric of the Islamic Republic regarding Afghans and Afghanistan, as well as in relation to trends in Iranian nationalism and in constructs of national …
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The Role Of Online Social Media In The Acculturation Process Of North Korean Refugee Young Adults In South Korea
… influences on the acculturation of North Korean refugee young adults in South Korea, especially focusing on identifying the role of online social media. The study examined the acculturation and media patterns of the refugee young adults and found evidence that the use of South Korean media and …
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Beyond cerebration : the Cambodian struggle for representation in Lowell, Massachusetts
… This thesis began as a study of the Cambodian community in Lowell and their rise to civic participation thirty years since their first arriving. By researching the evolution of one refugee community in one post-industrial mill town, I sought to answer two questions: 1) How do new immigrants to …
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Acculturation and the mental health of young refugees resettled under the humanitarian Gateway Protection Programme in Greater Manchester
… seek refuge in countries of safety has led to a refugee crisis. The United Kingdom (UK) has engaged with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in playing a significant role in the long-term resettlement of some of those refugees, half of whom are children and young people. One …
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Gender roles and livelihood security among women in Zambia: The case of Angolan and Rwandan refugees in MEHEBA refugee settlement
Zambia has hosted many foreigners and refugees. Refugee population is spread in all corners of the country. Males account for seventy five per cent while females account for twenty five per cent of refugee population in camps (Zambia Statistical Year Book, 2013). Once settled, these refugees face a …
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Gender roles and livelihood security among women in Zambia: The case of Angolan and Rwandan refugees in MEHEBA refugee settlement
Zambia has hosted many foreigners and refugees. Refugee population is spread in all corners of the country. Males account for seventy five per cent while females account for twenty five per cent of refugee population in camps (Zambia Statistical Year Book, 2013). Once settled, these refugees face a …
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A study of the cultural appropriateness of service delivery models in the Australian mental health system
… health system in relation to the Vietnamese refugee community in Australia. Culture and mental health, as widely acknowledged in the field of transcultural psychiatry, are closely linked. No aspect of the diagnosis or treatment methods can be justified without reference to the cultural …
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An Examination of Refugees Strategies of Survival: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Status of Resettlement Organizations and the Promotion of Alternative Forms of Resettlement Setting
<p>Resettled Refugees require humanizing approaches to community integration that promote healthy levels of independence and connection to the U.S. cultural practices, similar to that of home communities. Instead, a host culture dominates with complex and "none-reachable" profit-making institutions …