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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2012 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides training for staff at 200 locations worldwide and in an extreme range of conditions. This article describes the processes involved in undertaking the development of a series
Michael Alford +2 more
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Syrian refugees in Palestinian refugee camps and informal settlements in Beirut, Lebanon [PDF]
, 2017 Informal spaces often develop on the periphery of cities as a result of the arrival of rural migrants, national and international workers, refugees and others. In Lebanon during the 1950s, Palestinian refugees arrived and settledin tent camps, which were
Chamma, Nasr, Zaiter, Hassan
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Our Responsibilities to Refugees [PDF]
, 2019 The paper explores the basis of the responsibilities we owe to refugees. That we have such responsibilities is a very widely shared intuition: the need of those fleeing from persecution seems to call out for a response on our part.
Miller, David
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Disadvantaged communities often face compounded infrastructural, social, and economic barriers to accessing and utilizing information. This study investigates the information ecosystem of small‐scale fishing communities in climate‐vulnerable regions of Bangladesh, examining their information needs, access practices, and systemic constraints ...
Md Khalid Hossain +7 more
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Brief to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Concerning Bill C-84
Refuge, 1987 Brief to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs concerning Bill C-84.
. The Inter-Church Committee for Refugees
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Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2020 ‘Framing the Refugee’ looks at the power of representation of liberal political theory with regard to refugees. In the author’s view, legal and political arbitrariness lies in the representing of refugees as lacking agency. His key point is that liberalism fails to conceive of refugees as politically capable actors, and he is thus complicit in the ...
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The Reality of the Refugee Crisis in Italy: A Look into the Lives of Illegitimate Refugees and the Unofficial Organizations That Support Them [PDF]
, 2018 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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Human rights trauma and the mental health of West Papuan refugees resettled in Australia [PDF]
, 2013 This article finds that West Papuan refugees resettled in Australia report a wide range of premigration potentially traumatic events (PTEs) including human rights violations as well as symptoms of PTSD and distress.Abstract Objectives: To document the ...
Susan Rees
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The future in a bubble: Supporting Finnish early childhood professionals working in diverse settings
British 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
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