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Refugees in Greece: the Greeks as ‘refugees’

open access: yesGlobal Discourse, 2018
The state of economic emergency under which Greece has been put for the past eight years throws into relief the basic antinomy inherent in democracy. This pertains to the exercise of national sovereignty on the basis of borders whose safeguarding, however, implements a network of state practices of control and selection of populations both ‘within’ and
openaire   +2 more sources

Supporting Refugee Children in Pennsylvania Public Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study documented the lived experiences of professionals with significant background working with child refugees, in an attempt to understand how practitioners view the information, resources, and other supports required to assure child refugees ...
Wagner, Timothy M
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Innovative Model of Culturally Tailored Health Promotion Groups for Cambodian Survivors of Torture

open access: yesTorture, 2018
Cambodians living in the U.S.A. suffer from depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and chronic medical disease at rates far in excess of national averages.
Sarah Y. Berkson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors contributing to the sharing of COVID-19 health information amongst refugee communities in a regional area of Australia: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups worldwide. Newly emerging CALD populations formed by recently arrived refugees are predisposed to even greater health disadvantages ...
Sunita Joann Rebecca Healey   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advocacy for Refugees [PDF]

open access: yesNorth Carolina Medical Journal, 2009
NCMed JMarch/April 2009, Volume 70, Number 2 efugees are a population distinct from other immigrants in that they have been forced to leave their homes and relocate in other countries out of fear of persecution based on race, religion, ethnicity, political opinion, or social group. The UnitedStates admitsmore refugees forpermanent resettlement than any
openaire   +2 more sources

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing female genital mutilation in Europe: a scoping review of approaches to participation, prevention, protection, and provision of services

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background Public and policy attention to female genital mutilation (FGM) in diaspora communities has increased in Europe, but research remains limited and misinformation abounds.
Helen Baillot   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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