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Access to justice by refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa [PDF]
, 2011 Premised on the fact that access to justice is essential, if rights are to be actually enjoyed, this thesis set out to examine the extent to which refugees and asylum seekers are able to access justice in South Africa, both for the enforcement of their ...
Okpechi, Abiola
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Migracijske i etničke teme, 2014 This article examines the changes towards more gender-sensitive interpretations of refugee status in international and national asylum laws and policies within the context of contemporary and historical global power relations.
Marina Matešić
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An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
Journal of Economic Behavior & OrganizationWe formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social welfare function, SWF, where the social welfare of a population is determined both by the population's aggregate absolute income and by the ...
Stark, Oded, Kosiorowski, Grzegorz
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Dispersal: a barrier to integration? : the UK dispersal policy for asylum seekers and refugees since 1999 : the case of Iraqi Kurds [PDF]
The large rise in the number of asylum seekers coming to Britain in the 1990s and since then has made asylum policy and associated matters an increasingly important issue for the government.
Mallinson, Saran Michelle
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Coyote density, demography, and genetic structure across North Carolina's barrier islands
The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.Coyotes colonized North Carolina's barrier islands beginning in the late 2000s, where park managers have documented that they prey on protected shorebird and sea turtle nests. Using fecal DNA, we estimated coyote density across 7 islands, which ranged from 0.04–1.01 coyotes/km2 and generally declined with isolation. Abstract Beginning in the late 2000s,
Daniel Sossover +3 more
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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Cities of refuge Asylum and the politics of hospitality [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis draws upon ethnographic work in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to interrogate asylum as a spatial experience. Arguing that the routine framing of asylum as either an issue of national securitisation or cosmopolitan and humanitarian ethics serves
Darling, Jonathan Mark, Darling, J.
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Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
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Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness
Journal of Public EconomicsData from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate an unprecedented 43 percent increase in the number of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States between 2022 and 2024, reversing the gradual decline over the preceding sixteen years.
Bruce Meyer +2 more
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The untapped potential of urban nature to generate well‐being within migrant communities
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Urban nature supports mental health in cities, with benefits including reduced stress and anxiety, enhanced positive emotions and increased social connection. However, most evidence concerns dominant communities in high‐income countries, neglecting marginalised groups such as migrants, refugees, sexual minorities and neurodivergent individuals.
Catalina Mardones +3 more
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