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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"displaced people"”.
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Developing framework for the reconstruction of housing for the internally displaced people due to conflict
… a result of Boko Haram conflict in Nigeria, many people have been displaced and a lot of houses destroyed. The displaced people are presently domiciled in different temporary camps across the country and the camps are in bad condition without electricity, clean drinking water, food, medical …
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The Implications of War and Conflict on the Mental Health of Syrian and Iraqi Displaced People
… of Daesh. As a result, millions of civilian people were displaced from their homes. The present dissertation therefore purposes to study the experiences of the people forcibly displaced from Syria and Iraq as the two populations most affected by the civil war and armed conflict. The …
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Seeking Relief in the City: An Examination of Planning in Karachi to Support Internally Displaced People after the 2022 Floods in Pakistan
… devastation, resulting in millions of internally displaced people (IDPs) facing difficult choices. Karachi, the country’s largest city and capital of Sindh province, was the destination for tens of thousands of evacuees. Many of these rural-urban migrants ended up in relief camps lacking basic …
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Methods to Preserve Social Networks at Emergency Shelters
… focus of emergency management is to ensure that people evacuate safely. Lost in the process is a mechanism for keeping existing social structures intact, despite substantial evidence that maintaining social structures during and after disasters is beneficial. Instead of displaced people …
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Ambitions of cidade : war-displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola
… of Benguela, which received large numbers of war-displaced people, most of whom settled in bairros, informal settlements surrounding the cidade, the formally structured area of the town. The experience of displacement and establishment in urban areas is not marked only by material struggles and …
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Inching Closer: Life on the Sinking Island of Ghoramara
… policy or legal framework regarding Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in India. This documentary film has been conceptualized to highlight how the slowly transforming environment such as extensive soil erosion, dwindling livelihoods, and fading traditions affect this coastal community in India. …
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State-led urban development, displacement, resettlement, and livelihoods from a complexity perspective: A case study of Thu Thiem, Vietnam
Urban development has displaced millions and caused widespread impoverishment across the world. Most literature investigates this problem using an "inadequate-input" approach, which attributes failures in livelihood restoration for displaced people to a lack of input investment, e.g. resources and …
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State-led urban development, displacement, resettlement, and livelihoods from a complexity perspective: A case study of Thu Thiem, Vietnam
Urban development has displaced millions and caused widespread impoverishment across the world. Most literature investigates this problem using an "inadequate-input" approach, which attributes failures in livelihood restoration for displaced people to a lack of input investment, e.g. resources and …
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International displacement and state compliance with international human rights standards: the current protection of internally displaced persons' right to physical security in Nigeria
There are approximately 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world. A large majority of these people are internally displaced. Of the 40.8 million internally displaced persons' (IDPs) worldwide, Nigeria had a total of 1,955,000 IDPs at the end of 2016. Consequently, Nigeria is among the …
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“a Lonely Wandering Refugee”: Displaced Whites In The Trans-Mississippi West During The American Civil War, 1861-1868
… attention paid to the plight of Southern whites displaced by the war. In “’A Lonely Wandering Refugee’: Displaced Whites in the Trans-Mississippi West During the American Civil War, 1861-1868,” I argue that displaced whites, both during and after the war, were largely pushed off by the armies, …
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Contingent camps: An ethnographic study of contested encampment in the northern French and northern Moroccan borderlands
… deterrence practices intimately target migrant people. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among displaced people living in the borderlands of northern France (2017-2020) and northern Morocco (2019), it scrutinises how racialised acts of routine shelter destruction by police forces have come to be …
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Visual Recognition of Human Rights Violations
… is developed. Next, the problem of recognising displaced people from still images is considered. To solve this, a novel mechanism centred around the level of control each person feels of the situation is developed. By leveraging this mechanism, typical image classification turns into a uniform …
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"Obubomi Bulukhuni/It is a Hard Life, This": Journeys in and narratives of childhood cancer in a South African public healthcare context
… I argue that families become internally displaced to seek life-saving treatment for the child diagnosed with cancer. By actively engaging with theories of ‘home’ and ‘households’ I aim to present greater insights into the ways in which people create meanings for these terms in the …
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Between and Beyond Borders: Conflict, International Response, and Forced Migration
… and 2007. In facing violent conflicts, not all people leave their homes. Some people decide to stay. Some people seek a refuge outside their countries while others stay inside their countries. Some displaced people become involved in military actions while others stay in humanitarian camps with …
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Role of Social Media and Computing in Organizations aiding Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in the United States
Every year, an increasing number of displaced people arrive at the United States of America's border to request asylum. Several groups are working to help migrants by providing them with essential items and services, housing, and legal advice. Drawing on ethnographic findings, this work presents a …
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Ambitions of Cidade: War-Displacement and concepts of the urban among bairro residents in Benguela, Angola
… of Benguela, which received large numbers of war-displaced people, most of whom settled in bairros, informal settlements surrounding the cidade, the formally structured area of the town. The experience of displacement and establishment in urban areas is not marked only by material struggles and …
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Forecasting the vitality of the Fur language: A study in language use patterns and attitudes in Darfur
… 286 individuals in two towns and four Internally Displaced People camps in Darfur. It uses interviews to further explore language attitudes. The research shows that demographic variables such as gender, age, and level of education affect language use and attitudes and confirms that conflict has …
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Navigating the Paradox of Fear: Collaborative Research Exploring Resettlement and Vulnerability with Displaced Women in Colombia
… progressive attempts to support the internally displaced people, however there has been little qualitative research on the perception of this population, specifically mothers, as to whether this support is reaching them.</p>
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