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Refugees as planners : Palestinian refugees in Jordan and UNRWA, 1950-1957
… Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Jordan between 1950 and 1957. UNRWA started its operations in 1950 with plans for economic development. By 1957 there had been a clear shift in the agency's mandate to human development. There are many possible …
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Empowering Refugees Through Self-Education
<p>This project focuses on how to create easier access to education in refugee camps. This is discussed through the ideas of self-directed learning and cooperative learning. As well, the current need for education is explored. Several case studies are provided demonstrating that people without a …
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Addressing Health Disparities in Refugees
… Program Intern, it was my job to ensure that refugees coming to the United States had a place to seek medical care, advice, and preventative services. In order to improve access to health care for refugees, I assisted clients in choosing a medical provider, and accompanied clients to health …
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Reproductive Refugees: The Legacy of the One Child Policy on Chinese Refugees in the United States
<p>This paper analyzes the cases of Chinese refugees who were running from the People of Republic of China’s (PRC) one child policy to the United States from 1993-1995. I argue that the process of the one child policy’s enforcement to the asylum cases in the United States was a messy and confusing …
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Microfinance Partnerships: A Bridge for Refugees
… refugee population. With the global growth of refugees, the repositioning of refugees from either being cast aside as a potentially productive society or completely overlooked, is critical. Through my research in Ecuador, my thesis takes the viewpoint that refugees do, in fact, matter, and can …
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Ethiopian Refugees' Perspectives on Health Care
… 1. To interview ten individual Ethiopian refugees for their perspective on experiences with the healthcare services received previous to immigration to America.<br> 2. To interview the identified individual Ethiopian refugees for their perspectives on experiences with the American …
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Conflicts and refugees in developing countries
… of this dissertation is to investigate whether refugees and conflict help to explain Africa and other developing regions’ rate of economic growth. Economists, especially development economists, have been long engaged with the question of what makes different countries more or less successful …
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Interrogating community : dispersed refugees in Leeds
… in new UK social settings for recently-arrived refugees. Forms of familiarity and cultural reproduction are achieved through music, dancing, dress and food. Rather than simply representing 'home' culture, such practices create moments and places to contest both continuity and adaptation to the …
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Survival Strategies of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
I examined how Syrian refugees in Jordan use informal communication networks to cope with restrictive socio-economic and legal conditions. Based on 11 semi-structured interviews with Syrian refugees in Jordan, I uncovered how wasta (an informal practice rooted in family and communal bonds) and …
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Refugees, Sport and Belonging: A Photovoice Inquiry
… and social inclusion amongst six Eritrean refugees participating in an ethno-specific soccer team located in the City of Toronto, and the ways in which settlement occurs through the sports environment. This study uses photovoice methodology and draws on Maxwell et al.s (2013) modified …
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Transition in Occupations of Refugees During Resettlement
… In 2016, there were 22.5 million refugees worldwide (UNHCR, 2017). California resettled just over 5,000 of those 85,000 (Igielnik & Krogstad, 2017). Limited research has been conducted in the United States (U.S.) focusing on the refugee experience; furthermore, there is a …
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Clinical Psychologists’ experiences of working with refugees
Working therapeutically with refugees is considered to be a complex process. Literature available suggests a number of factors that contribute to the complexity, including: multifactorial presentations; cultural and political issues; therapists confronted with unfamiliar experiences and the impact …
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Investigating the antecedents and consequences of e-participation on refugees sustainable livelihoods a case: Palestinian refugees in the Gaza strip
… participation of civilians, both citizens and refugees in the context of politics. In addition, ICTs have enabled innovative forms of participation, both in terms of participation channels and the outcomes of participatory processes. However, studies on the impact of electronic participation on …
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CONTESTED HISTORIES AND IDENTITIES: ROMANI REFUGEES IN TORONTO
… useful in understanding the experiences of other refugees and minorities when examining state policies and is intended to fill the current gap in the anthropological literature on Romani communitie
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The Rough Road to Work for Rochester Refugees
Refugees face many hardships in adapting to life in new countries, including lack of familiarity with job markets, difficulties with cultural assimilation, and xenophobic resistance from locals. Monroe County and the City of Rochester in New York State have a significant refugee population who are …
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Why Refugees Rebel: Militarization in Jordan and Worldwide
… which will help explain the motivation of refugees to militarize and the framing used to mobilize them. In this framework, four conditions are necessary and sufficient to lead to refugee militarization in a particular host country at a particular time: a collective project to redeem the …
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Right-Wing Refugees and British Politics, 1830-1871
This thesis investigates the role of right-wing refugees in British politics during the middle years of the nineteenth century, considering the relationships which these refugees established with British politicians, and the difficulties which their multifarious activities created for the makers of …
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Quiet Neglect: Southeast Asian Refugees Amidst U.S. Denial
… 62 in-depth interviews with Southeast Asian refugees who were resettled in North Carolina and the service providers who work with them, I examine how the erasure of U.S. culpability and responsibility to SEAAs has impacted SEAAs’ racial experiences in their new homes. The chapters of the …
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Resettlement Challenges for Refugees in the United States
… the resettlement-related challenges that refugees encounter in the United States (U.S.). It utilized a qualitative research design with semi-structured interviews with three refugee families from different countries of origin: Afghanistan, Burma, and Iraq. The interviews were analyzed …
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