The Reality of the Refugee Crisis in Italy: A Look into the Lives of Illegitimate Refugees and the Unofficial Organizations That Support Them [PDF]
The words written on the United States of America’s famous Statue of Liberty, written by poet Emma Lazarus over a century ago: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore ...
McQuirk, Cole
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach +4 more
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“Like a Tree Without Leaves”: Syrian Refugee Women and the Shifting Meaning of Marriage
There is a growing body of feminist scholarship that highlights aspects of agency and empowerment of the refugee woman, mostly through citing examples of women challenging patriarchy and cultural norms.
Dina M. Taha
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IMPACT: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2019 [PDF]
Many of us look for ways to help students forge concrete connections between their academic studies and the real world. Universities encourage professors to develop community-based learning, allowing students to contribute to the community beyond their
Baer, Roberta D. +13 more
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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ABSTRACT As global conflicts intensify, observers without direct conflict experience are increasingly exposed to war‐related suffering through media coverage, yet little is known about how such exposure shapes emotional and behavioural responses or how support for different affected civilian groups is distributed.
Islam Borinca +3 more
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Collaborating with refugees: Power, ethics and reciprocity in documentary filmmaking
Representing stories through documentary film can offer a means to convey multilayered and sensory accounts of the lived experiences of people in extreme transition, especially former refugees.
Mandy Hughes
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]
I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
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