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From Probation to Partnership: Building Equitable Systems of Support in Community Colleges
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Community colleges serve as critical gateways to higher education for diverse student populations, yet traditional academic probation systems often exacerbate inequities by penalizing students facing systemic and personal challenges. This practitioner–scholar case study examines Clark State College's Academic Engagement Program (AEP), an ...
Elecia V. Spain, Michael B.Key
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe [PDF]
The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period.
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Timothy J. Hatton
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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Constructing Asylum Seeking Families
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2007 In this paper I show how families of asylum seekers are constructed by members of the public. A discourse analysis is conducted on a UK internet message board where members of the public were asked to comment on councils’ decisions not to implement ...
Simon Goodman
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Participation Paradox: Asylum Seekers’ Everyday Participation in Finland
Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchAsylum seekers are separated from the receiving society by the legislation, marginalising societal discourses and institutional practices of the reception system.
Martta Myllylä +2 more
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Harnessing Diversity: Majority‐Group Acculturation Predicts Creativity and Flourishing Over Time
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Creativity and flourishing are core aims of higher education (HE) institutions and government initiatives globally. Large‐scale projects have linked creativity and flourishing with cultural diversity, yet their associations with majority‐group acculturation (i.e., how members of dominant culture groups adopt minority‐cultural elements and/or ...
David Colledge +9 more
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Impact of the increased asylum seeker population on a UK mental health crisis service
BJPsych InternationalBackground A large proportion of applicants for asylum in the UK are housed in contingency hotels while awaiting the outcome of their claim. As the prevalence of severe mental illness (SMI) among asylum seekers is estimated to be around 61%, a ...
Helen Lashwood +3 more
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The Threat of Destitution as a Deterrent against Asylum Seeking in the European Union
Refuge, 2006 The problematization of asylum has detrimentally impacted on the provision of support for asylum seekers in host countries. The threat of destitution has become instrumental in restrictive asylum policies and is increasingly used as a deterrent against ...
Sylvie Da Lomba
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New issues in refugee research : the integration and onward migration of refugees in Scotland: a review of the evidence [PDF]
, 2009 Despite the operation of UK dispersal policy for nearly a decade, there has been little examination of the resulting impacts upon refugee mobility and integration.
Stewart, Emma
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The prevalence of Streptococcus equi subsp. equi carriers in the Netherlands
Equine Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Background Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) carriers are thought to be important drivers for strangles outbreaks. Limited data are available on the prevalence of carriers in European horse husbandry settings. Objectives To estimate the prevalence of S.
R. M. A. C. Houben +5 more
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