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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Refugee Experience"”.
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Living Within Hyphenated Paradoxes - The Canadian Adolescent Refugee Experience
In 2018, the Canadian government admitted 46,500 refugees. This followed a remarkable record resettlement of Syrian refugees in Canada from 201517, with just under half aged 17 or younger. This dissertation addresses how adolescent refugees negotiate the issues and aftermath of living in civil …
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Sent to Coventry: the role played by social networks in the settlement of dispersed Congolese asylum seekers
… the void between asylum legislation and the refugee experience. As a result of asylum policies and their implementation, a liminal space emerges which asylum seekers are forced to inhabit while awaiting a decision on their asylum claim. This research is based on a framework that identifies …
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From Burma to Dallas: The Experience of Resettled Emerging Adult Karen Refugees
… been forcibly displaced giving them a shared experience with other refugees. However, their journeys are differentiated by the sociohistorical circumstances and personal developmental stages that contextualize each experience. Every refugee has a story to tell. This qualitative study explores …
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Transition in Occupations of Refugees During Resettlement
… In 2016, there were 22.5 million refugees worldwide (UNHCR, 2017). California resettled just over 5,000 of those 85,000 (Igielnik & Krogstad, 2017). Limited research has been conducted in the United States (U.S.) focusing on the refugee experience; furthermore, there is a …
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The Effects of Refugeedom on Adolescents in Greece and the UK: Negative Responses, Resilience and Adversity-activated Development.
Adolescent refugees may endure multiple adversities, experiencing pain and suffering and occasionally more severe psychological distress or psychopathology as a response to their circumstance. At the same time, they may prove incredibly resilient or develop positively exactly because of these …
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Family reunification within the refugee context: Is South Africa meeting its International, regional, constitutional and legal obligations towards refugees?
The refugee experience is such that it is common for family members to be separated from each other before or during their flight from the country of origin. In the face of persecution, families adopt strategies, some of which may necessitate temporary separation: sending a politically active adult …
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From Displaced Persons to Exiles: Nationalism, Anti-Communism, and the Shaping of Latvian American Diaspora
… Through secondary source analysis of Vietnamese refugee experience later in the twentieth century, this project also aims to question notions of “exile” and “refugee” as such, and interrogates how they were used in relation to different Cold War era anti-Communist immigrant groups to the U.S. …
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The Lived Experience of Afghan Women Refugees in Three Metropolitan Areas of the Southeastern US: A Phenomenological Study
<p>The global refugee crisis has reached epic proportions. Statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, 2016) reported that in 2015 a record 65.3 million people worldwide, or 39,976 people per day, were displaced, either within their native countries or as asylees and …
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When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo, Theology, and the Ethics of Contemporary Conflict
… conflict. I explore the 1996-1997 Rwandan refugee crisis through the voice of a Catholic survivor, Marie Béatrice Umutesi, and consider how her narrative challenges both just war interpretations of this violence and "bare life" readings of refugee experience. I then examine how the Catholic …
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Displaced to a place : interventions for refugee integration in cities
… of their displacement. With over 25.4 million refugees globally, the highest number in history, countries are forced to change how they respond to this crisis. In most cases, housing refugees in temporary camps is not sustainable over a long, and a majority of the global refugees end up living …
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SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS
… have previously found that school-age refugees and asylum-seekers are frequently characterized as experiencing physical, emotional, or psychological disabilities or disorders in schools because of the adversity that they face and a lack of adequate resources during their refugee …
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Memory and postmemory in the writing of North American writers of Lithuanian descent /
… to Siberia, World War II, the postwar experience, the refugee experience, immigration). They consider the impact of those historical events on their ancestors, themselves, and their descendants. All five embarked on postmemory rite of return journeys to Lithuania after Lituania’s …
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Atmintis ir postatmintis Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių kilmės rašytojų literatūroje /
… to Siberia, World War II, the postwar experience, the refugee experience, immigration). They consider the impact of those historical events on their ancestors, themselves, and their descendants. All five embarked on postmemory rite of return journeys to Lithuania after Lituania’s …
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The Story of Our Journey
… Audio and video interview footage provided by refugee advocacy organization Their Story is Our Story allows the refugees themselves to share details of their journeys from Africa to Italy, from Afghanistan to Central Europe through Greece, and from Honduras to the United States. In partnership …
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A grounded theory analysis of how the identities (refugee and sexuality) of sexual orientation and gender identity minoritised refugees are influenced by the migration process in the UK
… how sexual and gender identity minority (SOGI) refugees develop their SOGI and refugee identities as a result of the migration process in the UK. The literature has explored the legal, social, structural and political dimensions related to the lives of this population, with a recent focus on …
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Social justice journalism: valorising and empowering the experiences of ‘the other’
… on an award winning initiative called the Refugee Journalism Project that the author established following the Syrian Revolution, and the subsequent widespread migration to Europe in 2016. The work, which is ongoing, encompasses published journalism, workshops, mentoring, public events and …
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Refugee settlement: Acculturation, ethnic identity, ethnicity and social network development
Refugees arriving in Australia undergo a number of settlement processes including adaptation and acculturation, social support and network development, and an exploration of their ethnic identity. This research examines the settlement processes of mixed marriage refugees from what was Yugoslavia …
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Social Network and Support Experiences of Older African Refugees in Calgary: A Visual Story
… implications are particularly acute for older refugees, who, having been compelled to flee their home countries, often encounter compounded vulnerabilities such as poverty, language barriers, cultural dislocation, and age-based discrimination. As a result, older refugees represent one of the …
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