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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"resettling"”.
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Understanding the Afghan Diaspora: Exploring the Factors Driving Migration and the Impact of Migration Policies on Recent Afghan Evacuees Resettling in the United States
<p>Afghanistan has been at war with the West since the late 1900’s, remaining in a state of constant turmoil. During the Cold War (1979), Afghanistan had fought a war with the Soviet Union, known as the Soviet- Afghan War. During this time, Afghanistan was invaded by both the Soviet and US, …
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'Should I Have Done More?': Proxy Agency, Gathered Ethos, and Volunteer Responsibility in the Rhetoric of Health Resettlement for Refugees
… rhetorically position their relationship with resettling clients, this study uses interview data from a local, volunteer-run community resettlement organization to provide a rhetorical examination of health resettlement. An analysis finds that in both contrast and response to a rhetoric of …
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Changes in Shared Decision-Making Roles and Perceived Stress in Syrian Refugee Parents Resettled in the Greater Toronto Area: A Cross-Sectional Study
… stress among 148 Syrian refugee parents after resettling in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) using a generalized estimated equation (GEE) model. An acculturative shift was observed among those participants who reported 'toward shared,’ and among parents who were classified as ‘not shared’, the …
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Health Care Utilization among Bhutanese Refugees in Philadelphia: Exploring Vulnerabilities, Access, and Needs
… across the United States and to refugees resettling in other Western countries.</p>
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Threshold of Refuge
… memory left in void. As refugees, the Rohingya resettling in the United States have been displaced out of time and place. This project proposal aims to reconnect persons to place and community. Surrounded on all sides by remnant chestnut oak forest, the "rock oak" of the Appalachian, this …
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An Investigation into the Barriers to Education and Employment for Refugees in Wales
… highlights the successes and challenges of resettling refugees in some of the UK’s most deprived localities.
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A multidimensional community development model for resettlement communitites: a case study in the Phillipines
… area, governments have begun relocating and resettling slum communities to outer areas of the metropolis. As a result, the displacement of people from former jobs, social networks, and cultural lifestyles have affected individual attitudes and created communities with limited community …
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The Life Experiences of Ten Female Refugees from Iraq and Iran: An Oral History Research Study
… push factors for leaving their home country and resettling in the United States, such as religious persecution in their homelands as a push factor and the availability of education in the United States as a pull factor. In addition, the findings revealed the hardships the refugees were exposed to …
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Federal and Local Acceptance of Refugees: The Dual Structures Promoting Community Inclusion
… and nongovernmental organizations play in resettling refugees in U.S. cities? To answer this question, I conducted a case study of the refugee resettlement structure and process as it occurs in the city of Roanoke, Virginia. I find that two governance structures dictate how refugees are …
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Exploring mechanisms for improved air quality in Mumbai resettlement dwellings : evidence from fieldwork and simulation
… a higher standard of living for slum dwellers by resettling them in permanent multistory structures. However, existing resettlement schemes result in environmental conditions that are often no better than the places from which people were located, with dense clusters of high-rise buildings being …
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More than English: Karen refugees negotiating their lifestyle in a cosmopolitan city
… U.S., specifically for this study, Trident City. Resettling in a new environment, particularly a cosmopolitan one in which the Karen refugees have to adjust their new lives to a neoliberal lifestyle, is a very difficult challenge. The challenge becomes obvious when we see a large number of …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
… which are then reinforced with the resettling of numerous French exiles in London from the 1660s onwards. Chapter Two turns to the salon's sensory environment, establishing its size, location, and interior experience. Chapter Three examines the religious dynamics of the salon as a …
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Making land fly : the institutionalization of China's land quota markets and its implications for urbanization, property rights, and intergovernmental politics
… by demolishing sparsely located farmhouses, and resettling peasants into high-density apartments. These quotas are then sold in new land quota markets to real estate developers. I find that China's land quota markets alter the traditional calculus of location and land use theory: the rural …
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Architectural fusion and indigenous ideology in early colonial Mexico: a case study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, demonstrating cultural transmission and transformation through negotiation and consent in planning a new urban environment
… urbanization on the valley floor, relocating and resettling their community from its pre-Columbian mountain-top redoubt. The effect of changes in the total formal environment on the indigenous mental world is examined using a holistic approach suggested by the interpretation of Focillon and Kubler …
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A study of the South Sudanese refugees' perspectives of settlement in the western suburbs of Melbourne
… and language and employment barriers. Since resettling in Australia, the South Sudanese refugee community has faced settlement difficulties like making adjustments to the Australian way of life. The reality is that refugee community groups from non-English countries that resettle in developed …
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The effect of UNHCR operations in the development of Turkey's asylum framework
… asylum claims, determining refugee status, and resettling refugees out of Turkey. The EU is an important actor for Turkey’s asylum reform process, but they are not the only actor enacting change and they might not even be the most influential actor. The Turkey-UNHCR relationship, especially in …
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Rebuilding In Post War Syria
… how can architecture alleviate the problem of resettling displaced populations in post-war zones? And in the process how can it help communities restore what they lost and potentially establish a better future? And is there perhaps a practical approach to resettlement that spurs a positive …
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Ecology, Agriculture and Proletarianization : A study of the sinazongwe area in Gwembe Valley of the Southern Province of Zambia : 1900 to 1989
… The chapter further looks at the process of resettling the people displaced by the flooding of Lake Kariba and the problem of land shortage as a result of population pressure.We will further demonstrate how the resettled people suffered a prolonged drought in the 1980's and discuss the impact …
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Ecology, Agriculture and Proletarianization : A study of the sinazongwe area in Gwembe Valley of the Southern Province of Zambia : 1900 to 1989
… The chapter further looks at the process of resettling the people displaced by the flooding of Lake Kariba and the problem of land shortage as a result of population pressure.We will further demonstrate how the resettled people suffered a prolonged drought in the 1980's and discuss the impact …
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