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Flexible learning templates for dispersed learners: Expanding the role of the content expert without pain

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Spatial Patterns of Recent Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Administrative Dispersal and Existing Ethnic Networks

open access: yesComparative Population Studies, 2023
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many people have fled the war and left their home country. By the end of January 2023, more than one million Ukrainian refugees had been registered in Germany alone. In contrast
Lenore Sauer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syrian refugees in Greece: experience with violence, mental health status, and access to information during the journey and while in Greece

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2018
BackgroundSince 2015, Europe has been facing an unprecedented arrival of refugees and migrants: more than one million people entered via land and sea routes.
J. Ben Farhat   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives of public health organizations partnering with refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities for comprehensive COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
ObjectivesTo understand public health organizations’ experiences providing comprehensive COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing, and related promising practices with refugee, immigrant and migrant communities.MethodsWe interviewed public health ...
Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Language in the Media in Influencing Public Perceptions of Refugees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The refugee crisis has become a worldwide epidemic in recent years. As refugee entrance into host countries is debated, media outlets are covering the issue regularly. These media outlets use various types of language when portraying refugees.
Pulliam, Alison M
core   +1 more source

Common mental disorders in asylum seekers and refugees: umbrella review of prevalence and intervention studies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2017
BackgroundIn recent years there has been a progressive rise in the number of asylum seekers and refugees displaced from their country of origin, with significant social, economic, humanitarian and public health implications.
G. Turrini   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Migrant categorizations and European public opinion: diverging attitudes towards immigrants and refugees

open access: yes, 2020
In recent years, European media and public discourse have been increasingly categorising newcomers using terminology like ‘immigrants’ and ‘refugees’. The aim of this practice is to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate newcomers in the wake of the ...
David De Coninck
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Framing the Refugee

open access: yesEtikk 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 ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Connected Belonging: A relational and identity‐based approach to schools' role in promoting child wellbeing

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract With levels of mental health difficulties among young people rising and policymakers focusing on the state's role in promoting young people's wellbeing, educational institutions have become positioned on the front line as key sites to identify and implement wellbeing interventions.
Ceri Brown   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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