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Risky alcohol use among reproductive-age men, not women, in Mae La refugee camp, Thailand, 2009. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Globally, alcohol use contributes to close to 4% of all deaths and is a leading cause of ill health and premature death among men of reproductive age.
Rose McGready +21 more
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Health care in refugee camps [PDF]
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1998 Over the last 20 years, influxes of refugees and population displacements have occurred mostly in countries which have neither the resources nor the capacity to deal with them. For example, countries such as Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Republique Democratique du Congo (Zaire), that have a gross national product per inhabitant less than USlfG ...
Luxemburger, C, Rigal, J, Nosten, F
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A Refugee Camp Conundrum: Geopolitics, Liberal Democracy, and Protracted Refugee Situations
Refuge, 2013 Liberal democratic norms are embodied in refugee camps and the states that host them in a multitude of ways: through refugee law and the ‘good offices’ of the United Nations; in relation to international aid and the prerequisites recipient governments ...
Jennifer Hyndman
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Should refugees govern refugee camps? [PDF]
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2021 Should refugees govern refugee camps? This paper argues that they should. It draws on normative political thought in consulting the all-subjected principle and an instrumental defense of democratic...
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From victims to survivors: Resilience in the Sahrawi refugee camps
, 2023 Being a long-term refugee undermines the confidence to overcome this legal status. As time passes people might feel trapped in time and in space and both factors contribute to their learned helplessness.
Manzanero Puebla, Antonio Lucas +2 more
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Sustainability in Refugee Camps: A Comparison of the Two Largest Refugee Camps in the World
Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021 AbstractAlthough the refugee phenomenon is not new and refugee camps are rarely temporary, in most cases, the procedures implemented within refugee camps have failed to apply principles of sustainability to ensure refugees’ dignity and improve their quality of life, thereby helping them become independent and self-reliant.
Mai Wardeh, Rui Cunha Marques
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Governance, governmentalities, and the state of exception in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon [PDF]
, 2010 Based upon data collected from four focus groups, this paper examines life in the Nahr al-Bared, Beddawi, and ‘Ayn al-Hilweh refugee camps in Lebanon from a governance perspective.
Hanafi, Sari +3 more
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Healthcare Service Access and Utilization among Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Annals of Global Health, 2019 Background Aim: Many Syrian civil war refugees are housed in carefully designed camps, however 60% of all refugees in host countries reside outside of specifically designated camps.
Ismail Tayfur +2 more
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Interpreting and Society, 2021 Through the lens of assemblage thinking and “territorialisation,” this article examines the operationalisation of language support by the voluntary sector in the Thorney Island and Sopley camps, which temporarily accommodated Vietnamese refugee arrivals ...
Rebecca Tipton, Annabelle Wilkins
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Refugee camp in the heart of the city [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2010 Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) held an exhibit called “The Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City” in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, from May 13–16 to raise awareness about the living conditions of the world’s 42 million refugees.
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