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Accessing and navigating healthcare: A scoping review of the experiences of women of refugee background from Myanmar. [PDF]
Health Soc Care Community, 2022 Abstract Despite well‐documented health problems, healthcare access by women of refugee background in resettlement countries is typically poor. Suggested reasons include inadequate health literacy and resettlement challenges. A scoping review to explore the experiences of women of refugee background from Myanmar accessing and navigating healthcare was ...
Griffin G +4 more
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The secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay, Myanmar: Dhamma‐youns and wards
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 337-349, December 2022., 2022 This article examines the entangled secular/religious construction of neighbourhoods in Mandalay as dynamic, people‐based and relational processes that are centred in dhamma‐youns (dhamma halls) which work within and across administrative ward boundaries.
Jayde Lin Roberts
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How 'hate' hurts globally [PDF]
, 2016 We sat down for dinner with three armed guards defending the restaurant door. That’s when we first started mentally drafting this chapter. We weren’t in the heat of a war zone. It was a cold March evening in Brussels. Our dinner companions were two dozen
Iganski, Paul, Sweiry, Abe
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Centralizing Historical Tradition in Precolonial Burma: The Abhiraja/Dhajaraja Myth in Early Kon-baung Historical Texts [PDF]
, 2002 The Abhiraja/Dhajaraja story, the most important origin myth legitimizing Burmese kingship, is widely viewed as a central Burmese (Burman) tradition. Based on evidence from available pre-eighteenth century historical texts, many previously unexamined by ...
Charney, Michael W.
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Evolution of the Burmese vowel system [PDF]
, 2012 Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics has relied heavily on the spelling of Burmese and Tibetan words as found in standard modern dictionaries, at the expense of the earliest attested records.
Hill, Nathan W.
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The Apotheosis of Siti Khotijah: Islam and Muslims in a Balinese Galactic Polity [PDF]
, 2018 This article seeks to describe the way in which Gusti Ayu Made Rai, an eighteenth-century Balinese princess from Badung became Raden Ayu Siti Khotijah, one Indonesia's few widely recognized female Muslim saints.
Woodward, M. (Mark)
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Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison [PDF]
, 2011 Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest on questionable theoretical and empirical grounds.
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Art. XVI.—The Arakanese Dialect of the Burman Language [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1897 It is well known that the people of Arakan are an offshoot of the Burman race, the accepted account being that they first crossed the range of mountains called the Arakan Yoma about b.c. 825 under a Prince Kanruga-gyi. It seems probable that the small portion of the country then inhabited was settled by a few of the advance-guard of the Chin-Lushai or ...
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 161-180, January 2024.Abstract Does ethnic empowerment under colonial rule shape ethnic power even after independence? Existing research offers mixed arguments and rarely differentiates between different types of political empowerment. Drawing on the historical observation that the parliament and the security forces were two of the major sources of political power in newly ...
Tay Jeong, Choong Kyo Jeong
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The struggle for the Bay : the life and times of Sandwip, an almost unknown Portuguese port in the Bay of Bengal in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [PDF]
, 2008 This article places Sandwip, a lesser known salt trading island and port in the Bay of Bengal within the nexus of global trade and politics in the seventeenth century.
Rila Mukherjee
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