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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond survival mode: Organizational resilience capabilities in nonprofit arts and culture fundraising during the Covid‐19 pandemic

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 279-295, Winter 2022., 2022
Abstract Organizational resilience remains an under‐explored topic in the nonprofit management literature (Searing et al., 2021). Despite an increasing number of studies framed by management perspectives and organizational theory, their focus is on how forprofit organisations react against external crisis by developing ‘resilience capabilities’; ways ...
Marta Herrero, Simone Kraemer
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Sponsored Humanitarian Parole [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
The United States has introduced a special humanitarian parole process for Ukrainian citizens in response to Russia 2022 invasion of Ukraine. To qualify for parole, Ukrainian applicants must have a sponsor in the United States. In collaboration with HIAS, a refugee resettlement agency involved in the parole process, we deployed RUTH (Refugees Uniting ...
arxiv  

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

British 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, Alison Douthwaite, Michael Donnelly, Marnee Shay   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee Resettlement Housing Scout [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
According to the United States High Commission for Refugees (UNHCr), there are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 21.5 million of them being refugees. This has led to an unprecedented refugee crisis which has led countries to accept refugee families and to resettle them.
arxiv  

Using transfer learning to study burned area dynamics: A case study of refugee settlements in West Nile, Northern Uganda [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
With the global refugee crisis at a historic high, there is a growing need to assess the impact of refugee settlements on their hosting countries and surrounding environments. Because fires are an important land management practice in smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, burned area (BA) mappings can help provide information about the impacts
arxiv  

A study on the social integration of international secondary students in Canadian high schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on the international secondary students (ISS) is scarce compared with the proliferating literature on their tertiary counterparts. This paper focuses on social integration experiences of ISS from diverse ethnic backgrounds, the undergirding macro‐, meso‐, and micro‐mechanisms, and the supports needed for their successful integration ...
Yingling Lou
wiley   +1 more source

Administrative-Jurisdictional Activity of Police(Comparative-Legal Analysis)

Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2017
The article analyzes the status of administrative offences of Russia and Germany; is the analysis of the administrative-jurisdictional competence of police. The necessity of reducing the jurisdictional powers of the police.
Aleksei D. Maile
doaj   +1 more source

“We” the Refugees: Reflections on Refugee Labels and Identities [PDF]

Refuge, 2018
In this article the authors present an auto-ethnographical analysis, describing their personal experiences with forced migration. Using narrative passages, the authors problematize the way in which refugee identities are entwined with socially constructed labels.
Vigil, Yanery Navarro, Baillie Abidi, Catherine   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Host Community Respecting Refugee Housing [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
We propose a novel model for refugee housing respecting the preferences of the accepting community and refugees themselves. In particular, we are given a topology representing the local community, a set of inhabitants occupying some vertices of the topology, and a set of refugees that should be housed on the empty vertices of the graph.
arxiv