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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"urban refugees"”.
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Mobile phone use for empowerment in the context of social exclusion: an ethnographic study of urban refugees in South Africa
… been made to find ways to address the problem of urban refugees who are now acknowledged as a universal, continuing, and recurring phenomenon. There is a dominant optimism about the contribution of mobile phones to the empowerment of refugees in the host countries. However, there is a dearth of …
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Challenges and Livelihood Strategies of Darfurian Refugees Living in Kampala, Uganda
<p>The phenomenon of urban refugees poses many challenges to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), host governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are providing services to them, thereby posing many challenges to the refugees themselves in having their needs …
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Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing in an Environment of Risk: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Urban Congolese Refugee Resilience in Kenya
… forcibly displaced groups. Eighty-six percent of refugees are hosted in developing countries, while 58% migrate to urban centers in search of opportunities. Although there are benefits to urban migration, refugees residing in Nairobi, Kenya are vulnerable to police extortion, arrests, …
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Muslim Brothers or Overstaying Guests? The Reception of Syrian Refugees in Southeastern Turkey
… party has staged a warm welcome for Syrian refugees. Their refugee regime, however, has remained weak in regards to law and policy. Retaining the geographical limitation stipulated in the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Turks have attempted to locate the …
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Ethnicized displacements: Urban lives of Afghan Pashtuns and Afghanistani Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan
This dissertation compares the urban lives of displaced Afghan Pashtuns and Afghanistani Hazaras, focusing on how ethnicization of their subnational identities shapes their everyday experiences. I explore how displaced Afghans in Quetta, Pakistan, navigate and resist multi-layered minoritization, …