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Researching health and internal displacement: Introduction to the special series [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Migration and Health
This special series on ‘health and internal displacement’ is concerned primarily with the health needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in conflict contexts. Curated by editors from the recently established Health and Internal Displacement Network (
Jina Swartz   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Internal displacement in Colombia: Fifteen distinguishing features. [PDF]

open access: yesDisaster Health, 2014
This commentary aims to delineate the distinguishing features of conflict-induced internal displacement in the nation of Colombia, South America. Even as Colombia is currently implementing a spectrum of legal, social, economic, and health programs for "victims of armed conflict," with particular focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs), the ...
Shultz JM   +5 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Internal displacement in Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2008
Climate change in Nigeria is having a very real impactand needs urgent attention.
Ujah Oliver Chinedu
doaj   +1 more source

Internally Displaced Persons [PDF]

open access: yesPrehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2001
AbstractThere were estimated to be over 20 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the end of 1999, a number that surpasses global estimates of refugees. Displacement exposes IDPs to new hazards and accrued vulnerability. These dynamics result in greater risk for the development of illness and death.
Leus, Xavier   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring interactions between socioeconomic context and natural hazards on human population displacement

open access: yesNature Communications, 2023
Climate change is leading to more extreme weather hazards, forcing human populations to be displaced. We employ explainable machine learning techniques to model and understand internal displacement flows and patterns from observational data alone.
Michele Ronco   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

"This is our land": ethnic violence and internal displacement in north-east India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
"This report focuses on the situation of people internally displaced by three situations of generalised violence, which between them caused the displacement of over 800,000 people within the region: violence and displacement in Assam and Meghalaya states
[Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre]
core   +5 more sources

Transnationalization of human rights norms and its impact on internally displaced Kurds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper addresses the less researched topic of internal displacement as a human rights issue and analyzes the extent that the transnationalization of human rights issues and the pressures from regional organizations affected the rights of ethnic ...
Celik, Ayse Betul, Çelik, Ayşe Betül
core   +1 more source

Challenging (Internal) Integration: Debating Internal Displacement and Integration in Greek-Cypriot Refugees’ Oral Histories

open access: yesCentral and Eastern European Migration Review, 2023
The turn of the century has brought the issue of internal displacement to the forefront of the international agenda, recognising it as a matter of global concern.
Christakis Peristianis
doaj   +1 more source

Nonconservative Nature of the Stresses Developed in a Continuum. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The stresses in an elastic continuum (i.e. a continuum with zero strains after unloading) are classically deemed to be conservative (i.e. their total work all over the continuum is a single-valued function of only the displacement distribution in the ...
Nikitas, Alexandros   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Transient Flow in Roots Blower [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The performance of rotary positive displacement machines highly depends on the operational clearances. It is widely believed that computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can help understanding internal leakage flows.
Bruecker, C.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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