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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"encampment"”.
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Contingent camps: An ethnographic study of contested encampment in the northern French and northern Moroccan borderlands
… in the shadows of borders zones where makeshift encampment is no longer tolerated, and violent 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 …
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Liminal Boundaries and Vulnerabilities to Radicalisation in the Context of Securitisation of Migration
… of physical, mental and other expressions of encampment inimical to freedoms. As such, three interlocking formulations of encampment, which is a measure of securitisation, arise. The first manifestation of encampment arises from the practice of the interminable spatial confinement of refugees …
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Refugee entrepreneurship in Malawi: the nexus between social capital and entrepreneurship among refugees in adversity
… host countries leads to harsh policies including encampment policies that restrict refugees to camps. Despite these restrictions and tough conditions in camps setups many refugees continue to thrive with entrepreneurship. Thus, the problem being addressed in this thesis is to explore how social …
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“We are all going into log huts – a sweet life after a most fatiguing campaign”: The Evolution and Archaeology of American Military Encampments of the Revolutionary War
… history and archaeology of the American military encampments of the American Revolution. The organization of this dissertation reflects the purpose and methodology of the study to create context — both historically and archaeologically — for the American military encampments of the American …
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The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died: The Politics of Crisis and Homelessness in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… group of housing activists set up a tent city encampment in a plaza adjacent to New Orleans City Hall. The action resulted in the creation of Homeless Pride, a small group of politicized Plaza residents. Six months later, hundreds of homeless people were moved from the park, and it was fenced …
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The city and the slum: an action research on a Moroccan and a Roma Xoraxanè community in Rome.
… reference to the Italian phenomenon of the Roma encampments. The study is important because through the research on a single case study, the encampment of “Casilino 700”, I had the possibility of investigate and evidentiate the dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion through the analysis of …
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The Impetus For Transitions From Relief to Development In Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
… As a result of war, displacement, and encampment, land access and tenure have also become contentious issues. Development projects carried out by both the Ugandan Government and International NGOs in the region have by and large been ill-considered and in some ways have actually created …
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Liberalizing Democracy: Property, Citizenship, and the Constrained Promise of Self-Governing Houseless Communities
… in unsheltered houselessness, houseless encampments are becoming far more common throughout urban landscapes. Along with the increase of encampments there has been new rights-claims by houseless communities, claims for rights to organize communities on public and private properties. As a …
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"Freedom From Camps": Housing and Power In theExperience of Sri Lankan Long-Term Refugees In India
… to carve out new lives for themselves? How has encampment influenced the ways refugees construct an ideal future? For the last three decades, by living in militarized 10x10 spaces in overcrowded camps, the Sri Lankan refugees face severe economic, social, and cultural problems in their exile …
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An investigation of factors that cause conflict between refugees and the host communities in Lusaka district.
… among others. From inception, Zambia has an encampment policy which entails that refugees are supposed to reside in specified settlement camps and movement to other parts of the country is restricted. However, the world is changing and refugees globally are opting to live in urban areas as …
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An investigation of factors that cause conflict between refugees and the host communities in Lusaka district.
… among others. From inception, Zambia has an encampment policy which entails that refugees are supposed to reside in specified settlement camps and movement to other parts of the country is restricted. However, the world is changing and refugees globally are opting to live in urban areas as …
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Apprentices to power: the cultivation of American youth nationalism, 1935-1970
… America; and the Society for Ethical Culture’s Encampment for Citizenship (EFC), as well as smaller, likeminded initiatives. From small pilot projects, the programs grew into quasi-official youth movements for the United States responsible for training millions of adolescents and young people in …
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Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises
… how the predominant solution to refugee crises, encampment, enacts and intensifies displacement over time. Contributing to the notion of wicked problems, this paper specifies the underlying practices of such problems’ inherent intractability, referring to temporal and spatial containment. The …
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The Open City: A Grammatology of Migrant-Rights Movements and the Logic of Sovereignty
… detention, deportation and encampment. In departure from this logic, and signaling the possibilia of radically new institutional frameworks, attention to migrant-rights movements supports a distinct grammar of cosmopolitan democracy not yet captured by scholars, including a …
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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence, Support, and Justice
… state law enforcement agencies. The context of encampment, a complex governance system in camps, and the plural state legal system impact victim-survivors experiences of accessing justice. This is the first study of its kind; it provides thematic insights, theoretical contributions and poses …
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Refugee woman and the experiences of local integration in Nairobi, Kenya
… for themselves in a country which advocates encampment and expects refugees to reside in the designated areas. Through their own agency, refugee women are able to navigate structural barriers meant to deter integration in ways that demonstrate that the absence of an official integration …
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Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
… nuns in Yachen, a mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in post-Mao China. Over 10,000 nuns make up the vast majority of the permanent residents in this community (approximately 2,000 monks …
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The Grey Matters: Investigating the Wingfield Strip as an Urban Borderspace
… refugee policy, favouring urban integration over encampment, has been widely applauded as a progressive measure for refugee protection. While this policy bodes well for visions of inclusive urban citizenship, in practice, refugees and asylum seekers in the country face major barriers to legal and …
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Reciprocity: Seattle's Housed Community Hosts a Network of Villages for Seattle's Unhoused Families
King County and the City of Seattle have been unable to reach their ten-year 2015 challenge to end homelessness; instead the rate of homelessness has increased 21% in the last year alone. Despite the difficulties in resolving homelessness here, other places faced with a similar homeless situation …
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Social Capital, Structural Holes, and entrepreneurship: A study on refugees entrepreneurship in Kenya
… Kenya presents a unique context through its encampment policy by which more than 500,000 refugees and asylum seekers are put in refugee camps in rural parts of the country under restrictions of movement and lack of rights to work. While refugees in institutionalised camps are constrained to …
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