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Showing 1 to 20 of 346 for “"asylum"”.
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Asylum story
asylum story is a short literary novel set in South Africa in the year 2019. The protagonist is infected with a deadly new respiratory disease and being held in a quarantine facility near a fictional town in the Karoo. The novel spans a six-month period during which the protagonist becomes involved …
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'Perceiving Italy' : an exploration of asylum-seekers' strategies. The case of Eritrean asylum-seekers.
… way perceptions and emotions shape the agency of asylum seekers. Using Eritrean asylum seekers that travel to Italy and their perceptions of the Italian asylum system as a case study, it explores how perceptions of Italy and its asylum system shape the strategies of Eritrean asylum seekers at …
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"Fit objects for an asylum": The Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum and its patients, 1852-1899
… uses the records of the Hampshire County Asylum (HCA) between its<br/>opening in 1852 and the end of the nineteenth century to offer a different perspective<br/>on asylum history. Though it discusses the asylum in legal, medical and social welfare<br/>contexts it focuses on the experience …
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Detention of Asylum-Seekers: Comparison of the Asylum and Detention Practices in United States and Sweden
… This research paper compares and contrasts the asylum process in US and Sweden. It analyzes the similarities and differences in their refugee policies and how asylumseeker rights are undermined or supported in the detention centers. The research discusses the historical origin of the …
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Childhood and asylum : the legal protection of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people in the United Kingdom asylum and social care systems / Ibidunni Francisca Idowu-Eberendu
… thesis is the legal protection of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and separated children in the United Kingdom asylum and social care systems. The thesis investigates if the standard of legal protection conferred upon unaccompanied asylum seeking and separated children in the United Kingdom asylum …
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The Impact of European Union Asylum Policy on Domestic Asylum Policy in Germany and Britain: 1990-2007
… towards the establishment of a common European asylum policy. The question of the impact of this cooperation on domestic asylum policy has so far received surprisingly little attention. Most explanations have focused on how an agreement on restrictive policies was achieved at EU level, and …
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The sexual politics of asylum: lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
… explores lived experiences of sexual minority asylum seekers and refugees in the UK and the analysis emerges from a two-year long ethnography with 60 people. I chose to focus on sexuality in the context of asylum in order to trace parallelisms and differences amongst the conditions of …
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Inside the Walls of the Asylum: Exploring the Lives of Individuals in the Mississippi State Asylum (1855-1935)
<p>The Mississippi State Asylum (MSA), established in 1855, was the first such institution in but has been largely forgotten about since its closure in 1935. The cemetery associated with the facility, which is located on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus, was recently rediscovered …
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A new materialist exploration of Sexual and Gender Minorities asylum seekers and refugees’ experiences of the UK’s asylum process
… exploration of sexual and gender minority asylum seekers and refugees lived and embodied experiences of the UK’s refugee status determination process. It explores specifically experiences of sexual minorities who were forced to flee their homeland to the UK where they later sought sanctuary …
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Theatre of Testimony: An investigation in devising Asylum
… are seeking to incorporate the testimony of asylum seekers into their work. This necessitates a need to critically reflect on the influences that shape and structure the staging of testimonies. This study argues that increased migration and the mounting number arrivals of asylum seekers on …
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Inequalities in the Common European Asylum System: The role of Greek libraries as information resources in the midst of asylum system shortcomings
Historically, the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) has proven challenging for the member states on the periphery of the EU – the same member states that are currently experiencing high volumes of asylum seekers. This inability to address the needs of these member states was particularly …
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Promoting Resilience in Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Minors
… received 20,000 applications from unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (UAMs) applying for international protection, and 60,000 UAMs from Central America were apprehended at the US-Mexico border. These unaccompanied minors are vulnerable, and the traumas they face impact their mental health. As …
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Daily occupations among asylum seekers- Experience, performance and perception
Asylum seekers often find themselves in a situation where the structure and content of daily occupations have been disrupted and they might have limited access to paid work and education. Studies have shown that asylum seekers experience occupational depri- vation and a change in daily occupations …
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Suicide, lunacy and the asylum in nineteenth-century England
… admissions to nineteenth-century public lunatic asylums. They formed a distinct patient category that required treatment and management strategies that were capable of frustrating their suicidal propensity and alleviating their mental affliction. Yet despite being relatively large in number, the …
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Hope in the untenable: Seeking asylum in Samos, Greece
… in a smuggler’s boat with the intent of claiming asylum within the bounds of the European Union. Upon arrival on the Greek isle of Samos, one of five Greek islands in the Aegean hosting a hotspot or refugee camp, those seeking asylum are met with circumstances which often disappoint the hopes …
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RE-EVALUATING VULNERABILITY IN THE COMMON EUROPEAN ASYLUM SYSTEM: TOWARDS A MORE SENSITIVE AND EFFECTIVE IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS.
… function of vulnerability in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), where the concept has become increasingly central yet remains theoretically fragile and operationally inconsistent. Although European Union (EU) legislation and European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) guidance invoke …
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Community Participation Among Refugees and Asylum Seekers Who Experienced Trauma
… trauma and ongoing instability. For refugees and asylum seekers, rebuilding life is not only a matter of safety and survival, but also of reestablishing their participation in daily life, reclaiming their identity, and securing a sense of belonging in their new communities. Despite this, refugees …
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URBAN EXILES. MIGRATION GOVERNANCE, ASYLUM, DISPLACEMENT AND SEGREGATION IN ATHENS.
… confinement and the ongoing transformation of asylum in a new form of urban exile. Finally, the Eleonas case highlights how the analysis of dispersal and displacement technologies and trajectories can help shed light on new forms of segregation, but also on the ways in which urban and migration …
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UK Immigration Policy and the Welfare of Children Seeking Asylum
… who come to the UK either as dependents of adult asylum seekers or as unaccompanied children seeking asylum in their own right are obscured by a political discourse that is focussed on problematizing immigration control and a 'managed migration' agenda. In response there is an emerging body of …
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