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Mortality in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh: historical, social, and political context

open access: yesSexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2019
Fifty-two maternal deaths occurred between September 2017 and August 2018 in the Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf Upazilas, Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh. Behind every one of these lives lost is a complex narrative of historical, social, and
Parveen K Parmar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advanced Methods for IDP and Refugee Camp Mapping with Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery

open access: yes, 2008
Studie zur kontinuierlichen Analyse von Flüchtlingslagern mit sehr hoch aufgelösten optischen (IKONOS) und Radardaten (TERRASAR-X)
Gayer, Martin
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Refugee Situation Awareness: Camps and Beyond

open access: yes, 2015
Refugeesituations create challenging refugee situation awareness research problems.We examine these research problems through three inter-related questions: (1) How do actors that service refugee camps maintain camp activity awareness?; (2) How do camp ...
Mohamad, Fahed Alhaj   +2 more
core   +1 more source

‘Like the Angel of Death Appearing to Take the Children Away’: The Portrayal of the Norwegian Child Welfare Service Among First‐Generation Muslim Parents

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the perceptions of Norway's Child Welfare Services (CWS), or barnevernet, among first‐generation Muslim migrant parents. It focuses on how personal experiences and community narratives shape attitudes. Using data from semi‐structured interviews with 24 first‐generation Muslim migrant parents, the findings reveal a stark ...
Alexander Gamst Page   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors associated with teenage pregnancy among refugees in Palabek refugee settlement, Northern Uganda

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Globally, teenage pregnancy is a public health problem. Low- and middle-income countries in the Sub-Saharan region are more affected with teenage pregnancy.
Emmanuel Okiror Okello   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rights Displaced: The Effects of Long-term Encampment on the Human Rights of Refugees

open access: yes
This paper investigates the use of long-term encampment policies in protracted refugee situations. Unlike most contemporary scholarship on the subject, this work focuses on the human rights of encamped refugees rather than on their rights under ...
Sytnik, Svetlana
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Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Gil Rothschild Elyassi
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Issues Conducting Research During War and Violent Conflict: A Review

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global health engagement increasingly occurs in the context of war and violent conflict. Many health‐related decisions are made which should be guided by evidence. Health research is needed to provide evidence, yet conducting research in conflict settings raises multiple ethical issues.
Dónal O'Mathúna, Emily E. Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

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