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Child Survival and the Fertility of Refugees in Rwanda after the Genocide [PDF]

open access: yes
In the 1960s and 1990s, internal strife in Rwanda has caused a mass flow of refugees into neighbouring countries. This paper explores the cumulated fertility of Rwandan refugee women and the survival of their children.
Jan Van Bavel, Philip Verwimp
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Crisis and displacement in Somalia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Can displacement shocks offer opportunities to change theparameters of response to protracted refugee ...
Lindley, Anna
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Understanding and improving the mental health of refugees and asylum‐seekers: Reflections from the closing panel of the 2024 International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract Forcible displacement due to war and persecution has reached unprecedented heights across the globe. The mental health impact of trauma and displacement on refugee communities is profound. Although there are several evidence‐based therapies that are efficacious in reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in refugees ...
Angela Nickerson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potentially morally injurious events and posttraumatic stress symptom change across the military‐to‐civilian transition: A prospective study

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This prospective study examined whether exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs), specifically self‐attributed transgressions, other‐attributed transgressions, and experiences of betrayal, predicted change in posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and reintegration difficulty during the military‐to‐civilian transition (MCT). U.S.
Walter J. Sowden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Analysis in Refugee Resettlement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Refugees are individuals who hold a well-founded fear of persecution based upon their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group and who have resultingly been forced to flee their country.
Glover, Kelsey
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack

open access: yesNonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

So We Ran...

open access: yes, 2014
This paper tells the true story of a Hungarian refugee who\u27s family fled the communist regime there in 1971. Gabriella Bercze\u27s story reflects on what it was like to live in Hungary under communist rule, and her family\u27s experience in escaping ...
Bias, Sara R.
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Beyond Crisis Management: The Path Towards an Effective, Pro-active and Fair European Refugee Policy. Bertelsmann Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Europe urgently needs an effective, pro-active and fair refugee policy. Short-sighted policy-making and a narrow focus on what seemed to be in the immediate national interests have led to a conglomerate of European refugee policies.
Mayer, Matthias M., Mehregani, Mehrdad
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A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

No. 07: Evaluating Refugee Protection in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
South Africa’s policy on refugees has its origins in the country’s much-criticized Aliens Control Act (96 of 1991) (ACA), which in numerous respects has failed to provide adequate guarantees to applicants (de la Hunt 1998,2002: 123; Human Rights Watch ...
Crush, Jonathan, Williams, Vincent
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