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Community intermediary strategies and tactics to close digital divides and enhance equitable technology use in everyday life

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Online technologies are required for accessing essential services, such as healthcare, transportation, and education. Challenges to online technology access can prevent resource‐constrained communities from connecting to these services. Human intermediaries who act in the middle space between technology and the person using the technology may ...
Marcy G. Antonio   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The future in a bubble: Supporting Finnish early childhood professionals working in diverse settings

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to contribute to the knowledge about early childhood education and care (ECEC) personnel's perception of the support structures that are most effective in assisting them in their work with culturally and linguistically diverse children.
Alexandra C. Anton   +2 more
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

The Growing Influence of the Courts over the Fate of Refugees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A number of migration scholars suggest that domestic courts have become the key protective institution for refugees. How can we explain this claim? One prominent explanation identifies group litigation as the key source of the increasing influence of the
Soennecken, Dagmar
core   +1 more source

‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin   +6 more
wiley   +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

Refugees, Food Insecurity, and Community Gardens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Nearly nine in ten resettled refugee households endure food insecurity, meaning that they are without “access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” Because western New York resettles hundreds of refugees per year ...
Rolston, Dorian
core   +1 more source

The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +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

Communication of Business‐Nonprofit Collaborations and Environmental Legitimacy: Exploratory Insights From Italian Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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