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Characterization of Neuropsychiatric Conditions in United States Resettled Refugees at a Single Academic Center

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Neuropsychiatric diseases are common among forcibly displaced persons, and a better understanding is needed to improve screening and treatment efforts. We performed a retrospective cross‐sectional study at a single academic center looking at neuropsychiatric diagnoses of United States resettled refugees presenting for their domestic medical examination.
Noor F. Shaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing legal identity for displaced Syrians

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2018
Seven years of conflict have had a serious detrimental effect on many Syrians’ ability to prove their legal identity.
Martin Clutterbuck   +3 more
doaj  

When Does Migration Law Discriminate Against Women?

open access: yesAJIL Unbound, 2021
It is possible to identify gendered disadvantage at almost every point in a migrant woman's journey, physical and legal, from country of origin to country of destination, from admission to naturalization.
Catherine Briddick
doaj   +1 more source

Refugees and the Election

open access: yesRefuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 1988
Will refugees be an issue in the forth- coming election on November 21st?
openaire   +4 more sources

“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities and challenges in preventing violence against adolescent girls through gender transformative, whole-family support programming in Northeast Nigeria

open access: yesConflict and Health, 2022
Background Household violence is one of the most prevalent forms of gender-based violence faced by adolescent girls in humanitarian settings. A growing evidence base demonstrates the extent to which multiple forms of familial violence, including intimate
Andrea Koris   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived facilitators and barriers to the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon

open access: yesWomen's Health, 2023
Background: The Syrian crisis has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. Inadequate access to and use of sexual and reproductive health services is a prevailing issue among adolescent girls and young refugee women in ...
Fouad M Fouad   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Framing the Refugee

open access: yesEtikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2020
‘Framing the Refugee’ looks at the power of representation of liberal political theory with regard to refugees. In the author’s view, legal and political arbitrariness lies in the representing of refugees as lacking agency. His key point is that liberalism fails to conceive of refugees as politically capable actors, and he is thus complicit in the ...
openaire   +4 more sources

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