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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"loss of home"”.
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‘Being-at-home’ and homelessness: an interpretive phenomenological analysis of the experiences of Syrian involuntary immigrants living in Istanbul, Turkey
… acknowledge the individually varying experiences of displaced people. Employing interpretative phenomenological analysis, this dissertation addresses this gap in the literature and explores the experiences of Syrian war immigrants living in Turkey in relation to ‘being-at-home’ and ‘homelessness’. …
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The Cherry Orchard
Similar to the namesake of this manuscript, Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard, the poems that make up this collection explore loss—loss of home, loss of time, loss of loved ones, loss of self. Some of the poems originate from personal experiences, while others utilize modes like the …
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Effects of Customary Law in Widows’ Inheritance Rights to Matrimonial Properties at Ruanda Ward in Mbeya City, Tanzania
This study investigated the effects of customary law on widows‟ inheritance rights in matrimonial properties. The study sampled a total of 120 respondents using simple random, purposive and snow ball sampling techniques. Data were collected using questionnaires on a face to face, interview, …
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Effects of Customary Law in Widows’ Inheritance Rights to Matrimonial Properties at Ruanda Ward in Mbeya City, Tanzania
This study investigated the effects of customary law on widows‟ inheritance rights in matrimonial properties. The study sampled a total of 120 respondents using simple random, purposive and snow ball sampling techniques. Data were collected using questionnaires on a face to face, interview, …
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Three Essays in Housing Economics
… in people's lives, which arouses great interests of economists. This dissertation consists of three chapters on house price: the first chapter studies spatial correlation of house prices at the state level; the second chapter studies the effect of house price on marital stability of individual …
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Workplace Suicides Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2013-2020
This study examines the occurrence of workplace suicides and their contextual factors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the Centers for Disease Control's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). The study analyzes demographic, geographical, occupation, and …
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Transforming Narratives: Subjectivity and Metamorphosis in Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Alejo Carpentier, Vassilis Vassilikos, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Darrieussecq
… project explores the narrative representations of transforming subjectivity in modernist and post-modernist texts that deploy the trope of metamorphosis. Subjectivity is explored within a psychoanalytic framework and from a comparative lens, through the juxtaposition of selected short stories …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… it was during the Romantic era that ‘the concept of migration acquired the complex semantic and ideological range familiar to the twenty-first century’. This dissertation builds on Wiley’s insight to compare depictions of forced displacement in British Romantic poetry to contemporary poetry …
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Savings and shock-coping behavior in South Africa's metropolitan townships
… we want to determine if the availability of instruments like mobile-money solutions, that allow households to save anywhere , anytime, next to community savings schemes like stokvels and more traditional ones like funeral plans, insurance and bank accounts affects the savings behavior to …
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Contributing factors to the development of positive responses to the adversity endured by Sierra Leonean refugee women living in the United Kingdom
The basic rationale of this research was to identify as many relevant factors and issues as possible that have enabled Sierra Leonean women emerging from a brutal civil/rebel war in Sierra Leone to develop resilience( “To spring back into shape” –Oxford English Dictionary) and Adversity-Activated …
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Nach dem Lebensbruch
Im Kontext der algerischen Unabhängigkeit verließen die meisten französisch-jüdischen Staatsbürger/innen die vormalige Kolonie in Nordafrika. Der seinerseits algerischstämmige, jüdische, französische Historiker Benjamin Stora sieht in dieser Übersiedlung das letzte von drei Exilen, in die sich die …