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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Refugee studies"”.
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The Entanglements of Canada's National Identity Building and Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflicts: Racial Capitalist Democracy and the Cold War Neoliberal Multicultural Subject
… racial capitalism, and critical refugee studies to theorize how the Vietnamese Canadian subjectivity is related to Canadas national identity formation. Adopting a critical ethnography methodology and discourse analysis, this study asks: What are the conditions of community …
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Human rights for whom? : sexual refugee applications in the 'gay capital' of Africa
… the evidentiary hurdles of sexuality-based refugee applications in Cape Town, the so-called gay capital of Africa. Amidst authorities' fear of bogus applicants, asylum-seekers fleeing homophobic persecution in their country of origin have to navigate the burden of proving to the South …
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Being branché : a story of refugee advocacy and networking in Montréal and in cyberspace
… an ethnographic study of Montreal's community of refugee advocates who work on behalf of refugees making requests to the Canadian government for asylum. The goal of this thesis is to portray who refugee advocates are, what they do, how they do it, and why. The study reveals that the work of …
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From Burma to Dallas: The Experience of Resettled Emerging Adult Karen Refugees
… 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 the stories of …
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Entangled Humanitarianism: The Shifting Ethical Landscape of Refugee Resettlement in Missoula, Montana
… as an altruistic “good” by examining the U.S. refugee resettlement program, and situating longstanding commitments to refugee resettlement within the framework of racializing and essentializing immigration policies, projects of governance and control, and narratives of belonging and …
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Beyond Resettlement: The Role of Ethiopian Refugee Diaspora in Homeland Peacebuilding
… at an alarming rate. As a consequence, refugees have become a growing concern among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. Although much attention has been afforded to refugee studies, the contributions of conflict-induced migrants towards homeland peacebuilding remain …
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Community Participation Among Refugees and Asylum Seekers Who Experienced Trauma
The global refugee crisis has resulted in millions of individuals and families displaced by war, persecution, and violence, many of whom arrive in host countries carrying histories of trauma and ongoing instability. For refugees and asylum seekers, rebuilding life is not only a matter of safety and …
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Moving, waiting, searching across borders: Gendered geographies of violence, disappearance and contestation in southern Mexico
… of political geography, critical border studies, refugee studies and transnational feminist approaches. The study and grounded analysis originate from feminist ethnographic and participatory action research with migrant women, feminist and women’s groups, collectives searching for the …
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From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Palestinian Youth as New Practitioners of Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan
Displaced in both 1948 and 1967, Palestinian refugees in the Middle East now number over 5 million and have lived in exile for decades with no sign of a permanent solution. Despite the duration of their displacement, Palestinian refugees remain marginal to prevailing literature on long-term …
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Excessive Presences: An Ethnography of Experiences of Crisis in the Italian Asylum System
… The research draws on information collected from refugees during eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Torino, Italy. The main research findings are twofold. Firstly, this thesis offers a new angle on the link between the social and the psychological. The research analyses the effects of …
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Life after asylum: investigating the precarious geographies of home with refugees leaving direct provision in Cork, Ireland
… and afterward. More broadly, research with refugees focuses on displacement, journeys to refuge, protection and experiences of seeking asylum yet rarely do academic inquiries focus specifically on the ‘move-on’ period after asylum when international protection has been granted. Thus, the …
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'Existential migration': voluntary migrants' experiences of not being-at-home in the world
… reformulating existing areas within migration studies, cultural anthropology, tourism studies, cross-cultural training, refugee studies, and psychotherapy. In contradistinction to most concepts, 'existential migration' is presented as a process concept, guided by the philosophical work of …
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Adoption Wars: American Missionaries and International Adoption in Twentieth-Century South Korea
… children, drawing links between critical refugee studies and critical adoption studies. Ultimately, this project intends to expose the hollowness of American multiculturalism that was percolated through Protestant missionary activity during the Cold War era, and how South Korea laid the …
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Apartheid in Schaarbeek: Belgian Migrant Labor and Human Rights in Europe’s Carbon Transition, 1945-1973
… temporality” within the scholarly fields of refugee studies and postwar Europe. These debates, often built on research in state archives, mark how guest workers became a body politic without citizenship – a marker of political agency – situated outside the imagined borders of a nation – in …
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Exile and Home: Narrative Identity in the Central American Community of the San Francisco Bay Area
<p>Research Topic</p> <p>This research studies the experiences of Central American immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and is focused on the mimetic power of the narrative to foster within the individual a sense of home, identity, and forgiveness, calling for meaningful …
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Syrian Refugee Storytelling and the ‘Survivor-Witness-Messenger’: Knowledge and Violence in Displacement Narratives
… approach to the study of Syrian refugee narratives (in original oral history interviews, memoirs and news media), the thesis carries out a discourse analysis of a variety of texts to examine how subjectivities and global relations of power are discursively produced and cited. …
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No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Making of a New Queer Identity
… find their lives unfolding in diasporic spaces. Refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity persecution make up 12% of all refugee cases in Canada, with queer African refugees constituting the largest group within this category. With this in mind, we now have to ask, “what kind …
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Feelings of home and belonging amongst Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds who live in New Zealand
… geographies of Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines feelings of being at home and belonging for 37 resettled Bhutanese women and girls, and eight men, aged between 12 and 85 years, all living under the third-country resettlement programme in …
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"In My Heart I Had a Feeling of Doing It": A Case Study of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Christianity
… 1980s, had a distinct conversion experience in refugees camps. Using first-person interviews and participant observation with a group of Lost Boys resettled in Denver, and historical and ethnographic data, this research seeks to explain why the Lost Boys converted to Christianity and the role …