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Protracted Refugee Situations: A Feminist Perspective on Refugee Depiction by UNHCR
Protracted refugee situations are some of the most complex political, human rights, and humanitarian challenges facing the international community today. While scholarship on the phenomenon typically focuses on empirical data using non-critical methods, this paper uses a feminist approach to study …
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Refugee housing in the United States: improving the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market
… between the US Reception & Placement (USRAP) refugee resettlement program and the health of the US’s refugee-welcoming rental market (RWRM). I focus on USRAP because it plays a unique and vital role in the international protection system for refugees and because the Biden Administration …
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Gender and Refugee status
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South African refugee law and policy in relation to the international refugee regime
… 2 Almost every book or article on the subject of refugee law begins with statistics indicating the growing number of refugees (usually with a note that most refugees are from African countries), a comment about the causes of refugee movement, followed by the assertion that there is little evidence …
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Narratives of refugee resettlement workers: The impact of recent policy changes on refugee resettlement
… case study captured the narratives of seven refugee resettlement workers in Texas to examine the impacts of refugee policy changes upon them and their organizations. The research questions were: (a) How do refugee resettlement workers describe the effects of recent refugee policies on their …
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Psychosocial Adjustment Among Refugee Children
<p>Refugee children are faced with multiple stressors. These stressors include unresolved issues with country of origin, transition to a new country, and long-term adjustment. War is a traumatic situation. For children who have gone through the trauma of war, parents may contribute one of the major …
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French for refugee service providers
This dissertation entitled French for Refugee Service Providers, aims to provide a curriculum for teaching French as a Foreign Language to those working with French-speaking refugees in South Africa. Firstly, the context of the project is thoroughly discussed, which substantiates the importance of …
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Refugee housing for Hong Kong
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1962.
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Democratizing Refugee Governance Through Critical Reflexivity
This dissertation considers how refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) are conceived in international relations, and how they are understood in relation to the global refugee regime complex. This research explores how cognitive frames are impeding fair/democratic governance of …
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Refugee migration stress and family function: A phenomenological study of refugee mothers from East and Central Africa
Refugee families who flee their homes as a result of conflict or persecution and face stressful migration experiences often struggle with trauma that may put them at increased risk for family discord and dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to use an interpretative phenomenological approach …
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SCHOOLING AT THE INTERSECTION OF REFUGEE IDENTITY AND (DIS)ABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FROM NORTH KOREAN STUDENTS WITH REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS
… have previously found that school-age refugees and asylum-seekers are frequently characterized as experiencing physical, emotional, or psychological disabilities or disorders in schools because of the adversity that they face and a lack of adequate resources during their refugee …
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Understanding bargaining outcomes in Europe’s migration and refugee crisis: The Refugee Relocation Scheme and the EU-Turkey Statement
… formulation of the two Council Decisions on refugee relocation and the amendment of the second of these by means of the EU-Turkey Statement. In so doing, it aims to further our understanding of how Member States and central EU institutions affect bargaining outcomes and respond to pressures …
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Women Refugee Students: United Nations' Visual Representation
… women experiencing (re)location in contemporary refugee crises through the lens of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) website. The researcher used visual analysis of digital media in the UNHCR’s ‘Her Turn’ multimedia report, which highlights girls’ education and the UNHCR’s …
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REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION IN CANADA
… thesis utilizes primary data collected from refugees in Ottawa and secondary data to argue that the system that is supposed to help is now failing these people. It shows exactly what kinds of obstacles are the most problematic to family reunification. It outlines the way that Canada’s …
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Participatory inclusion in the refugee resettlement process
… explores the disconnection that exists between refugee policy developers and those whom they intend to benefit by bringing the voices of refugees and their supporters into community discussions on policies and practices that directly affect the refugee resettlement experience. The purpose of …
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Refugee community organisations: a social capital analysis
This thesis considers how refugee-led community organisations generate social capital for their service users. The concept of social capital has become popular in policy debates in recent years, and previous research has attributed social capital creation for their service users to refugee …
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Interpreters as Agents in the Refugee Crisis
The so-called refugee ‘crisis’ could not be managed without the help of volunteers, on a global as well as on a local scale. The focus of this thesis is on one particular group of people whose commitment is crucial for handling the situation: interpreters in the refugee context in Germany. Since …
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Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’s Leadership in Jordan
… humanitarian crises, 80 percent of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons are women and children, indicating that women experience conflict and war differently. The emphasis on women’s vulnerability during conflicts and humanitarian crises leads to their exclusion from leadership …
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Educational Guide: Refugee Children's Storytelling across Curriculum
… is facing a continuous increase in the amount of refugees seeking refuge in the States. This continuous increase places a strain on the current education system that is underequipped to handle an influx of students with very special and unique needs. This thesis discusses these needs and one …
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Mass influx refugee situations: law and practice
The problem of refugees is a global one that is of concern to all states. There are rising numbers of refugees that are forced to migrate from their homes in search of safety. How states respond to refugee situations is very important for the protection of refugee's rights. The international …
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