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Rising waters, displaced lives

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2014
Although Pakistan and Colombia have relatively advanced disaster management frameworks, they were unprepared and ill-equipped to assist and protect people displaced by recent floods.
Lindsey Brickle, Alice Thomas
doaj  

Raising post‐secondary education participation of young people transitioning from care: The effects of extended legislative support

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Out‐of‐home care is associated with a range of negative social outcomes for the young people who experience it. The most promising path to improved life chances for care‐experienced young people is arguably through education, especially post‐secondary education.
Naomi Tootell, Andrew Harvey
wiley   +1 more source

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

Adherence to UNRWA’s anaemia treatment guidelines in the Jerash Camp Health Centre, Jordan: a retrospective observational study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objective The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) provides primary healthcare to 2.2 million Palestinian refugees in Jordan.
Akihiro Seita   +9 more
doaj   +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

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

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

Ethnic enclaves and immigrant labour market outcomes: quasi-experimental evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This study investigates empirically how residence in ethnic enclaves affects labour market outcomes of refugees. Self-selection into ethnic enclaves in terms of unobservable characteristics is taken into account by exploitation of a Danish spatial ...
Piil Damm, A.
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Was the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission an act of dispossession?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has been described as one of the most comprehensive regional and national governance structures for Indigenous people in Australia. This paper looks briefly at its operational life between 1990 and 2005 and focusses on its abolition, arguing that this was an act of dispossession. The
Tui Crumpen
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

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