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Lessons from a Decade in West Hill: Community Perspective from the Refugee Welcome Center
Journal of Community Engagement and ScholarshipThis community perspective provides a brief history of the West Hill Refugee Welcome Center (RWC) in Albany, NY, a nonprofit organization that works to (1) assist with long-term refugee resettlement by providing affordable housing and vital services, and
Tim Doherty, Matthew Klane
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Family planning in refugee settings: findings and actions from a multi-country study
Conflict and Health, 2017 Background To address family planning for crisis-affected communities, in 2011 and 2012, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Women’s Refugee Commission undertook a multi-country assessment to document knowledge of family planning ...
Mihoko Tanabe +5 more
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Fair and accurate? Migrant and refugee young people, crime and the media [PDF]
The public perception of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds is often associated with crime or offending behaviour. Unbalanced media stories sometimes reinforce these stereotypes. Executive summary This paper aims to gain a more
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Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group affects social fear of crime mediated by prejudice.
Patrick F. Kotzur +3 more
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Syrians contributing to Kurdish economic growth
Forced Migration Review, 2014 The circumstances for both successful livelihoods programming for refugees and for contributing to the local economy are present in the Kurdish region of Iraq.
Anubha Sood, Louisa Seferis
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Pushing the boundaries of anticipatory action using machine learning
Data & PolicyDisplacement continues to increase at a global scale and is increasingly happening in complex, multicrisis settings, leading to more complex and deeper humanitarian needs.
Alexander Kjærum, Bo S. Madsen
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Understanding the Unique Needs of Adolescent Refugee Students [PDF]
, 2016 Using the Essential Attributes of developmentally responsive, challenging, empowering, and equitable guidelines established by This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents, this article will provide a frame of reference for readers to assist ...
Bouton, Bobette
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Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.Forecasts peak electricity demand in Jordan for grid expansion over the next decade. Introduces a comparative method combining ARIMA, ARIMA‐X, and regression models. Projections show a 41% peak load increase by 2035, reaching around 5300 MW. The findings support capacity planning, pricing strategies, and network expansion.
Rafat Aljarrah +5 more
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Colombia: durable solutions for the forcibly displaced
Forced Migration Review, 2017 Colombia has a sophisticated body of law and a wealth of experience in the development of policies for the forcibly displaced. However, numerous obstacles stand in the way of attaining permanent solutions to displacement.
Amaya Valcárcel, Vera Samudio
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Competing for Refugees: A Market-Based Solution to a Humanitarian Crisis [PDF]
, 2012 The current refugee crisis demands novel legal solutions, and new ways of summoning the political will to implement them. As a matter of national incentives, the goal must be to design mechanisms that discourage countries of origin from creating refugees,
Joseph Blocher +10 more
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