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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging Our Assumptions: Listening to Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Voices About Career Aspirations

open access: yesJournal of Community Engagement and Scholarship
The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in upstate New York serves refugees and immigrants who have recently arrived in the United States. These newcomers face significant barriers to obtaining economic stability.
Angela Warner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

War can harm intimacy: consequences for refugees who escaped Syria. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BackgroundSyrians seeking refuge have been exposed to atrocities and trauma beyond comprehension. This study examines how personal, interpersonal, displacement and war-related factors have impacted married refugees' intimate lives.MethodsData included ...
Rizkalla, Niveen, Segal, Steven P
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Attempting return: Iraqis' re-migration from Iraq [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The voluntary repatriation of refugees and internally displaced persons is interpreted as evidence of restored security and political stability, improved civil-state relations and public confidence in reconstruction efforts in war-torn countries.
Iaria, Vanessa
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Syrian refugees and infectious disease challenges

open access: yesTravel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2015
Leblebicioglu, Hakan/0000-0002-6033 ...
Leblebicioglu, Hakan, Ozaras, Resat
openaire   +2 more sources

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Issue 11: Scaling Canada’s Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs) Model for Proactive Refugee Resettlement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this issue of Policy Points we provide a vision for scaling up Canada’s Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) model for refugee resettlement abroad.
Elmi, Ahmed Mohamoud   +3 more
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The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Career Construction Experiences of Syrian Refugee Women in Turkish Higher Education: Opportunities and Obstacles

open access: yesRefuge
This study explores the career construction and higher education opportunities and challenges faced by Syrian refugee women in Türkiye through semi-structured interviews with 40 women enrolled at a public university.
Zeynep Çirkin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Analysis in Refugee Resettlement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Refugees are individuals who hold a well-founded fear of persecution based upon their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group and who have resultingly been forced to flee their country.
Glover, Kelsey
core   +1 more source

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