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Jacobsen, Malene H. "UNSETTLING REFUGE: SYRIAN REFUGEES’ ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN DENMARK." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/62.
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This doctoral dissertation examines the lived experiences of refuge in Denmark from the perspectives of Syrian refugees. Situated within feminist political geography, it moves beyond examining geopolitics merely from the perspective of the law, the state, and policy makers. Instead, it seeks to grasp the ways in which geopolitics are encountered, experienced, and negotiated on the ground – by the people who are most affected by state policies and practices. It draws on more than ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark with Syrian refugees, including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and participant observations, as well as interviews with state and non-state actors providing assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan. This dissertation brings insights from feminist political geography into conversation with those from critical refugee studies, border studies, geographies of law, and postcolonial studies in order to unsettle core ideas and terms of reference surrounding what refuge is and how it is practiced.
This dissertation makes three distinct but closely related arguments. First, focusing on family reunification of refugees and how this form of protection became a target in the Danish state’s efforts to prevent refugee immigration, I argue that the geopolitics of refuge needs to be examined in a way that includes but also moves beyond the actual territorial border line as well as the legal border (i.e. the moment a person obtains protection and legal status). Second, through an examination of Syrian refugees’ everyday encounters with the Danish state, I draw attention to the disjunctures between idealized notions of refuge with its ostensible ‘humanitarian’ ethos and the practical articulations of refuge as manifested in the everyday lived experiences of refugees. This is what I term lived refuge. I argue, however, that the dissonances between idealized and actually existing refuge point to the persistent presence of governance within refuge, rather than a lack or an absence of ‘true’ humanitarianism - i.e. a promise of freedom, betterment, and prospect that did not fully materialize. Instead, the state practices, which refugees are subject to within refuge, are enabled and normalized through the asymmetrical relationships between the state and the refugee. Third, calling attention to how Syrian refugees experience, articulate and locate war, I trouble prevailing geographical imaginations of “Europe” and Denmark as spaces of peace, safety, and prosperity. Drawing on Syrians’ experiences of war, I argue that attending to everyday experiences of war in refuge prompts a re-articulation of where war is, what counts as war, and who decides.
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Kelly, Michael. "Welcome Home Rochester Guiding Refugees through Life in America." Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10600602.
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Rochester, NY is the third-largest city in New York State, situated on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, with a population of 210,565. Rochester is also the third largest city?after Buffalo and Syracuse?in terms of refugee resettlement. In 2016, US government resettlement and secondary migration brought 850 new refugees here. In 2017, that number is expected to pass 1,000., When refugees are resettled in the United States, the first three months of casework and assistance are provided by a federally-funded resettlement organization. After these months, however, refugees are removed from the resettlement service?s caseload. In Rochester, it is at this point that a number of critical actors and organizations step in. The author has investigated one group of people who help: sponsors. Sponsors are average citizens who, on their own accord, reach out to refugee services in the area and agree to help one or more refugee families. Sponsors are guides. Currently, sponsors receive no formal training and are recruited by word-of-mouth. The author proposes a design intervention to formalize the recruitment and training of sponsors. The intervention will first raise awareness of refugees living in Rochester in hopes of attracting new sponsors. Second, the intervention will provide information on what needs to be done, how to do it, and where to find resources in Rochester.
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Mccool, Jane A. "Life experiences of Cambodian-American refugee women : segmented life stories /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2003. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/dlnow/3115634.
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Scalena, Matthew. """I don't get out without a fight"": exploring the life stories of Chilean exiles /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2087.
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Eljedi, Ashraf Yaqoub. "Diabetes mellitus and quality of life of the Palestinian diabetic refugees in the refugee camps in Gaza Strip." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=97682230X.
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Emrich, Merle. "International biopolitics and “climate refugees” as bare life. A Critical Discourse Analysis of how the UN’s framing of “climate refugees” impacts climate related global humanitarian migration and refugee governance." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23429.
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This thesis investigates how the United Nations’ (UN) framing of “climate refugees” impacts global humanitarian migration and refugee governance in the context of anthropogenic climate change in which border zones become spaces of biopolitical decision making which impacts both governance strategies and International Relations as an academic field. It argues from a poststructuralist perspective that the UN’s discourse centred around climate change related human movement, the issue of “climate refugees” is downplayed, and “climate refugees” become bare life while their claims to legal protection are delegitimised. Thus, despite the concept of “climate refugees” becoming increasingly important in the Anthropocene, the UN’s discourse has remained vastly unchanged since McNamara’s analysis of it in 2007. The UN’s governance related discourse and reasoning concerning “climate refugees” and (humanitarian) global governance is explored through a Critical Discourse Analysis that examines a set of official UN documents which are relevant to the issue of forced human movement in the context of anthropogenic climate change.
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Søndergaard, Hans Peter. "Post-traumatic stress disorder and life events among recently resettled refugees /." Stockholm, 2002. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2002/91-7349-318-x/.
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Davie, Mulenga. "The health related quality of life of refugees with disabilities in Zambia." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8750_1305531939.
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This study attests to the fact that disability is an issue in conflict-affected populations, in particular refugees. Refugees with disabilities living in Mayukwayukwa refugee camp also have poor HRQOL similar to other studies. Education was the only variable significantly correlated to the psychological and social domains of the HRQOL. The study highlighted that environmental and personal variables played a role in the determination of health related quality of life among refugees with disabilities.
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Scott, C. R. "An exploration of refugees, post traumatic stress disorder and quality of life." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2012. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/11320/.
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Section A presents a literature review which aims to consolidate the theoretical and empirical psychological research regarding refugees’ post-migration, to clarify and further understand their psychological experiences and needs. The literature search yielded papers which are divided into four sections: refugees and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); refugees, complicated grief and cultural bereavement; refugees, resettlement and acculturation; and refugees and Quality of Life (QoL). The review highlights key findings and areas requiring further exploration. Section B reports an exploratory narrative study which aims to explore the role of QoL in the narratives of refugees with a diagnosis of PTSD. Episodic semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven refugees (5 males, 2 females), and analysed using narrative thematic, structural and performance analysis. The results illustrated containing and consistent support was important in progressing the transition from suffering during asylum-seeking to a refugee with hope, and improved QoL and psychological health. The results are applied to theory and research, and limitations of the study are discussed.
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Furr, Gina Maria. "Refugees' employment, job and life satisfaction, perceptions of racism, and experiences of discrimination /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8711.
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Furr, Gina Maria 1982. "Refugees' Employment, Job and Life Satisfaction, Perceptions of Racism, and Experiences of Discrimination." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8711.
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xi, 71 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.I utilized an ecological framework to explore the relationships between Cuban and Haitian refugees' perceptions of personal experiences of discrimination, perceptions ofracism in the United States, education, and satisfaction with life in the U.S. when they first immigrated and their employment status, job satisfaction, monthly income, income satisfaction, and overall U.S. life satisfaction two years after immigrating. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that the proposed models (a) significantly predicted refugees' job satisfaction, pay satisfaction, income satisfaction, and life satisfaction at Time 2, but not employment; (b) significantly predicted Cubans' job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and pay satisfaction at Time 2; (c) significantly predicted Haitians' pay satisfaction at Time 2; and (d) significantly predicted males' and females' job satisfaction, pay satisfaction, income satisfaction, and life satisfaction at Time 2. Additional analyses confirmed ethnic and sex differences in model results. Implications for research, theory, and practice are discussed.
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Lyngstad, Marta Oltedal. "Refuge Beyond Safety: A Study on Syrian Refugees in Jordan Preparing for Irregular Onwards Travel to Europe." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22812.
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The aim of this study is to get an enhanced understanding of why and how young Syrian refugee males in Jordan prepare for irregular travel to Europe. Through eight semi-structured interviews with Syrians in their 20s and 30s residing in Amman, and a conceptual framework of life plan, existential mobility and social network theory, this research hopefully enhances our understanding of the dynamic and uncertain process of onwards irregular refugee travel. I conclude that discrepancies between the narrative of self and the actual situation may trigger secondary migration, while the social capital inherent in the social network of an individual is essential in the preparation phase of onwards movement. Moreover, the results indicate that latent ties are use actively to assess the reliability of the large pool of information accessed through membership in social media networks.
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Knoll, Alina-Beth Drischell. "The newly established refugee: A qualitative study of Iraqi refugees in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1240312537.
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Macdougall, Nicolette. "Getting to know you : the journey from African refugee to African-Australian : insights into the life and times of African refugee women settling in Perth /." Macdougall, Nicolette (2008) Getting to know you: the journey from refugee to African-Australian. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/697/.
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In this thesis I adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the experiences of African humanitarian migrants in Australia. I argue that effective integration and positive settlement outcomes for this group would be enhanced by a clearer understanding of their originating circumstances and culture(s).
I employ a combination of ethnography, autoethnography and narrative styles to articulate different aspects of the lived experience of flight and settlement of twelve individual African refugee women. These stories were collected through semi- and unstructured personal interviews over a period of two years. They emerge out of my evolving relationships with the participants, and highlight the importance of friendship and active listening in promoting positive cross-cultural interaction.
The narrative accounts are supplemented and augmented by documentary chapters that examine the broader socio-political aspects of culture, war and refugees in Africa. The fine detail of the individual experiences of flight, settlement and relationships converge with these contextual accounts to open a window on the social world of humanitarian migrants. Together, they provide a layered and multi-faceted account of the life and times of African refugees and the challenges that they face in Australia in the 21st Century.
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Sipos, Michal. "War, asylum, and everyday life : the experiences of Chechen and Ingush refugees in Poland." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2016. http://research.gold.ac.uk/16597/.
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This doctoral thesis builds upon long-term and predominantly single-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Chechen and Ingush asylum seekers in one particular asylum centre in Eastern Poland between 2007 and 2009. It is concerned with some of the processes that constitute what some scholars have regarded as the unsettled and uprooted identity of refugees. Acknowledging that the thing that all immigrants from the North Caucasus had in common was the fact that their lives had been dramatically affected by the post-socialist Russo-Chechen wars, I consider war and displacement to be extreme disruptive events. Focusing on refugees’ voices, their narratives, life stories, utterances, paintings, but also silences, I examine the variety of ways in which these subjects attempted to make sense of a world, which had been radically changed by violence. Besides, the thesis does not overlook that refugee identity is also produced through the historically specific institutional practices and discourses of those who take part in political and humanitarian intervention. After delineating the way in which the notion ‘refugee’ was constructed in post-socialist Poland, I describe this political-legal construction as it existed and reproduced itself in the context of everyday life. Last, I consider the way in which these definitions became part of refugees’ lived experiences. Describing the people I encountered in the field—mostly refugees but also low-level bureaucrats, social workers, teachers, or local inhabitants of the surrounding urban and economically deprived neighbourhood—this doctoral thesis explores how violent disruption becomes integrated in the everyday life of victims of war and displacement within a specific political, socio-economic and historical setting.
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Ndzebir, Andrew Vernyuy. "Assessing Stress, Coping and Quality of Life among Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Luxembourg." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0092/document.
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Dans cette thèse, nous avons évalué le stress psychologique, à travers les troubles d’amertumes et posttraumatiques, les stratégies d’ajustement, ainsi que la qualité de vie des réfugiés et des demandeurs d'asile au Luxembourg. Dans un premier temps, 33 entretiens semi structurés ont été menés et ont montré que les processus administratifs installent la peur d’un rapatriement, alors que l'isolement social, la solitude, le manque d'amis et de communication avec les familles sont associés à des difficultés sociales, financières et d'acculturation. Dans un deuxième temps, 102 demandeurs d'asile ont complété un questionnaire de trouble amertume post-traumatique et révélé des scores très élevés. Dans un troisième temps, 221 demandeurs d’asile ont complété les questionnaires suivants : soutien social, attitudes multiculturelles, stratégies d’ajustement au stress, qualité de vie et auto-efficacité. Avec l'aide d'un modèle d'équation structurelle, le soutien social, l'auto-efficacité, l'attitude multiculturelle ont prédit de manière significative les stratégies d’ajustement au stress psychologique. L'effet médiateur des stratégies d’ajustement et prédictif du soutien social sur la qualité de vie ont été établis. Une partie des modèles n’étaient pas bien ajustés aux données. Grâces aux résultats obtenus nous avons pu dégager quelques pistes pour la prise en charge multidisciplinaire des réfugiés et des demandeurs d’asileIn this dissertation we assessed psychological stress through post-traumatic embitterment disorder, quality of life among refugees and asylum seekers in Luxembourg. At N = 33, semi structured interviews indicated that asylum seeking administrative processes install fear of repatriation while social isolation, loneliness, lack of friends and of communication with families was linked to social, financial and acculturation difficulties. At N = 102, there were good indications that asylum seekers are victims of post-traumatic embitterment disorder. Additionally, 221 asylum seekers responded to ways of coping, social support, multicultural attitude, self-efficacy and quality of life questionnaires. With the help of structural equation modeling, social support, multicultural attitude and self-efficacy significantly predicted adaptive ways of coping with psychological stress. At the same time, there was the mediating and predictive effect of adaptive ways of coping and social support on quality of life respectively. Part of the models did not fit well to the data. Based on our findings, tracks for a multidisciplinary care model for refugees and asylum seekers were identified
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Milios, Georgios. "The immigrants and refugees' right to family life: legal development and implementation from comparative perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398005.
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The present thesis deals with the immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers’ right to family life. It approaches the right to family life as a right that is wider than family reunification and includes cases of expulsion of foreigners who have family ties in the host country, as well as regularization issues. The present dissertation examines the foreigners’ right to family life from an international human rights law perspective, from an EU law perspective but also includes a comparative study of the legislation of three EU Member States, namely Spain, Greece and Germany. The main research question concerns the impact that the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty and the enhancement of fundamental right in Europe should have on family life related legislation at EU and national level. Not least, the present study aims at assessing the effect and effectiveness of the EU Directives approximately ten years after the deadline for their implementation and focuses on the case law of International, EU and national courts. It concludes that the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty and the fact that the ECFR has gained the same legal values as the Treaty directly affects the Directives which relate to family life and, consequently, the domestic legislations of the Member States which participate in the present study. That being said, the dissertation reaches the conclusion that the applicable family reunification regimes follow a strictly ‘formal’ model which is not compatible with the new fundamental rights scene, as it is formed at EU level. It proposes a new reunification model which will be more ‘substantial’ and will be based on an individual assessment of each application both as regards the family members who may qualify as such, and with respect to the requirements that are imposed for the exercise of the right to family reunification.La present tesi tracta sobre el dret a la vida familiar dels immigrants, refugiats i sol·licitants d'asil. El dret a la vida familiar s'aborda com un dret més ampli que el reagrupament familiar i inclou casos d'expulsió d'estrangers que tenen vincles familiars al país d'acollida, així com casos de regularització. La tesi analitza el dret a la vida familiar dels estrangers des de la perspectiva del dret internacional de drets humans, i de la perspectiva de la legislació comunitària, però també inclou un estudi comparatiu de la legislació nacional de tres estats membres de la UE, Espanya, Grècia i Alemanya. La principal pregunta de recerca de la tesi es refereix a l'impacte que l'adopció del Tractat de Lisboa i l'ampliació dels drets fonamentals a Europa han de tenir en la legislació relacionada amb la vida familiar a nivell comunitari i nacional. A més a més, la tesi té com a objectiu avaluar l'efecte i l'eficàcia de les directives de la UE aproximadament deu anys després de la data límit per a la seva transposició i es centra en la jurisprudència dels tribunals internacionals, comunitaris i nacionals. La present tesi conclou que l'adopció del Tractat de Lisboa i el fet que la Carta Europea dels Drets Fonamentals hagi guanyat el mateix valor jurídic que el Tractat afecta directament a les directives que es refereixen a la vida familiar i, en conseqüència, a les legislacions nacionals dels Estats membres que participen a l'estudi. Dit això, la tesi arriba a la conclusió que els règims aplicables de reagrupament familiar segueixen un model estrictament "formal" que no és compatible amb la nova escena dels drets fonamentals a nivell comunitari. Es proposa un nou model de reagrupació familiar que serà més "substancial" i es basarà en una avaluació individual de cada sol·licitud, tant pel que fa als membres de la família que poden qualificar com a tal, com pel que fa als requisits que s'imposen per a l'exercici del dret al reagrupament familiar.
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Sahara, Ayako. "Operations new life/arrivals U.S. national project to forget the Vietnam War /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1464673.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 7, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-100).
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Stevens, Christine Audrey. ""New life in the freedom country" : young Cambodians in Adelaide." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19370.
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Taylor, Helen. "Narratives of loss, longing and daily life : the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees in London." Thesis, University of East London, 2009. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3928/.
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The concept of home is integral to much research in the field of refugee studies, which has looked at the settlement of refugees in the new home of exile, return to the lost home and, more recently, a negotiation between two or more homes through transnational practices. However, studies have rarely focused on what home actually means for those compelled to leave their homes. This thesis moves beyond a structural assessment of forced migration to look at the lived experience of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot refugees in London, in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of the meaning of home. The thesis takes as its focus four key aspects of home - the spatial, temporal, material and relational - to reveal that home for the refugee is complex, multiple and in process. What the refugee loses when they are displaced is not only the physical property of the spatial home; but also the networks and social capital of the relational home; the framed memories, repetitions of daily life and future potential of the temporal home; as well as the tastes, scents and embodied experience of the material home. It is the impossibility of all these aspects ever being reassembled, even if the physical property were to be returned, which illustrates the depth of loss that exile often represents. However, in spite of the losses they have suffered, the majority of Cypriot refugees in this study also show tremendous resilience. The findings are based on narrative interviews with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot refugees, who have lived in protracted exile in London for several decades. Contributing to a narrative turn in the field, which places the refugee at the centre rather than the margins of the research, this study recognises refugees as agents in their own lives, who are victims of circumstances rather than victims per se.
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Roberts, Amy. "Internal-external locus of control and the life experiences of Soviet Pentecostal refugees in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4189.
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The construct internal-external locus of control was utilized to examine the Soviet Pentecostal refugees' perception of life experiences in the United States as defined by three dimensions: social, economical, and political. Unlike the majority of immigration research, which focuses on structural variables, this research further addressed the concept of acculturation as a long term process of resettlement. Subjects completed an anonymous forced choice questionnaire consisting of the Rotter (1966) locus of control instrument scale. Pearson Product moment correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the strength of the relationships between the internal-external locus of control scores and five factor analyzed life experience categories. Positive and sometimes strong correlations could be found between the internal-external locus of control scores and the five life experience factors. All five hypotheses were confirmed by the results.
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Sigurjonsdottir, Hjördis. "Integration – A Lifetime Project : Analysis of the Integration Process of Quota Refugees in Iceland." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131808.
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Due to an increased flow of refugees over the past few years, affairs of refugees have caught increased attention. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the integration process of an earlier group of quota refugees who came to rural Iceland in 1998, from former Yugoslavia. Eighteen years have passed and the refugees’ views of entering and living in Icelandic society will help to understand the process of integration and the role of migration in an ever-changing social context and in times of rapid globalization. The study aims to explore two questions: 1) How did the life events of the refugees affect their integration processes? 2) How did transnational practices impact the integration processes? In-depth interviews were carried out and a life course perspective was the method used for obtaining the refugees’ stories and life experiences, and to investigate their integration processes. The analysis draws on the theories of integration, life course perspective, transnationalism and social networks. This study indicates that transnational practices are beneficial for the lifetime project of integration. Access to an extended social network of relatives and co-ethnics also plays a crucial role. Another important element for integration is the feeling of normal life, supported by a feeling of security in the physical, economic and institutional sense.
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Warfa, Nasir. "Migration characteristics, social factors, life events & psychological distress among Somali refugees : a quantitative and qualitative study." Thesis, University of Kent, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445788.
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Zetterberg, John. "Migration Stories : A Case Study on the Life Course, Social Networks and Mobility Intentions of Refugees in Hofors." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145103.
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This thesis explores the mobility intentions of refugees in Hofors. The aim is to apply the theoretical framework of the life course perspective and social network theory; evaluating their suitability in approaching the topic of refugees’ mobility intentions in the Swedish countryside. The research questions ask how the life courses, social networks, and the specific locality influences their mobility intentions. The empirical research is based on biographical interviews and participatory mapping with refugee migrants residing in Hofors and an expert interview with a municipal employee. The findings illuminate: the role and dominance of different life domains at different timings (e.g. importance of the work domain in the initial stages of integration), the function of social networks as a resource of information, and the social context offered by Hofors (facilitating certain resources) – indicating the central importance of this conjunction, between the needs of trajectories within certain life domains and the ability of the locality to satisfy these needs, in influencing the mobility intentions. The research is situated in the field of international migration to the Swedish countryside, focusing on how rural municipalities can retain more refugees, by addressing the issue from the perspective of refugee migrants.
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Bransteter, Irina. "Gender Differences in Severity and Symptoms of Post War Trauma and the Effects of Persisting Psychological Trauma on Quality of Life Among Bosnian Refugees Living in the United States." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1277921426.
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Taylor, Georgina. "An investigation into the health-related quality of life of refugees and asylum seekers in Britain and France." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2006. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/7976/.
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This thesis is concerned with the health-related quality of life of two groups of refugees and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who are resident in Britain and France. Drawing on theories of health inequalities and psycho-social stress, the thesis argues that the health-related quality of life of refugees and asylum seekers is mediated by their immigration and citizenship status. Introductory chapters set the scene for the study, giving consideration to patterns of immigration and the emergence of minority ethnic groups in Britain and France, thus setting the context for the arrival and reception of refugees and asylum seekers during the 1990s. Citizenship, health inequalities, and the existing knowledge concerning the health of refugees and asylum seekers are addressed. Qualitative research, informed by phenomenology, is used to explore the health-related quality of life of these refugees and asylum seekers. The findings are presented and discussed in three chapters in the body of the thesis. Problems with psychological health dominate the findings; issues relating to physical health are presented largely within the context of seeking access to health care. A fourth chapter critically interprets the findings and locates them within wider literature. The thesis concludes that the health-related quality of life of refugees and asylum seekers is affected by their immigration status and by their lack of citizenship in their host countries. In the absence of citizenship of either Britain or France, refugees and asylum seekers are located in hierarchical societies, characterized by civic stratification, which confers a different set of rights on citizens, refugees and asylum seekers. Asylum seekers have fewer rights than refugees, who, in turn, have fewer rights than citizens. This thesis suggests that these relative statuses contribute to psycho-social stress and thus the health-related quality of life of refugees and asylum seekers.
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Berg, Mikaela, and Mikaela Wallinder. "Fear in Everyday Life - A Qualitative Study on the Everyday Routines of Burundian and Congolese Women Residing in Tanzanian Refugee Camps." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23470.
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This master thesis is based on a field study, conducted in Lugufu 1 and Mtabila 1 refugee camps in Kigoma, western Tanzania, where we held twenty-eight interviews with Congolese and Burundian refugee women. The Congolese and Burundian refugees have fled to Tanzania due to long-lasting conflicts in Congo and Burundi respectively; most arrived in mid-1990s. Thereby, the camps are no longer in phases of emergency and refugees have, since long, established everyday routines and habits that shape their everyday lives; our main interests lie in these. Accordingly, our aim with this study has been to attain a deepened understanding of how these refugee women experience their everyday lives with regards to safety. Since the women themselves were the narrators, security-related problems connected to firewood collection were, inevitably, frequently brought up and are therefore given much space throughout the study. Of great importance for the study is the Sphere Project, in particular the three Cross-Cutting issues - Gender, Environment, and Security – which are all, we believe, intimately related to Feminist Geography. Moreover, our purpose has been to interpret the answers given by these refugee women through arguments and concepts included in Feminist Geography and thereby enable new ways of understanding how, for example, the physical environment affects the everyday routines of refugee women. Furthermore, as several feminist geographers (who, to this date, mainly have focused on western, urban areas) approach women’s fear by looking at the prevailing social and power structures, such structures have also been given much space in our study. Consequently, our study sheds light on security-related issues, which refugee women face in their everyday lives. From the results found in our study, we believe, that if feminist geographers were to include refugee women residing in a non-western, rural context, they would stand to gain a broadened knowledge of how different women experience and are affected by fear and safety.
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Breedt, Werner. "A qualitative exploration of the social construction of identity of black male Zimbabwean refugees currently living in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31606.
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This study explored the social construction of black male Zimbabwean refugees’ identities as they experienced becoming refugees living in South Africa. A review of refugee literature revealed that Zimbabwean refugees demonstrate an exceptional nature that sets them apart from what most definitions of refugees assume. Refugee theory focusing on deficits and disorder promoted a view of refugees as helpless victims. As a result, refugees have come to be viewed as state burdens. Immigration practices characterized by the herding of refugees into spatially segregated areas, deportation and neglect continue to endanger the livelihoods of refugees. The manner in which government and media conceptualise the identity of a refugee has significant consequences for foreigners and locals. It is therefore important to explore the social construction of black male Zimbabwean refugees’ identities by investigating their own experiences through the telling of life stories. A process of in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with four black male Zimbabwean refugees between the ages of 18 and 50, all currently living in South Africa. A self told life story outlined a narrative of their past migration, present circumstances and future deliberations. Results showed that participants bore great suffering in search of a stable existence. They were subjected to political abuse and an immense economic downfall in Zimbabwe, and experienced a great shock of self-confidence upon leaving their home. They came to bear a painful sense of ‘otherness’ living as a foreigner, and had to develop new understandings of themselves. Race and religion became important signifiers of identity, and participants were said to undergo a posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of their turbulent experiences. A study such as this offers valuable insights into the aspects of a Zimbabwean refugee’s existence and needs. Research may also inform bureaucratic practices as to conceptualising more appropriate refugee relations in the future, as well as media campaigns capable of rehabilitating the image of the refugee.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Grafström, Shanti Louise. "Alsike Kloster : An Ethnographic Study of Spiritual Activism as Daily Life." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-324138.
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For nearly 40 years, Sister Karin and the nuns at Alsike Kloster have been giving sanctuary to refugees while also taking political, social and legal action to advocate for their rights. Every day they share their home with 60 men, women and children who are fleeing violence, persecution, looming threats and even death. Unlike many activists, the sisters of Alsike Kloster have turned spiritual activism into daily life. In this thesis, I immerse myself in the process of how the community of nuns and refugees do what they do. The purpose of this thesis is to paint an ethnographic portrait and open a window of understanding into the spiritual activism that this community lives as daily life. As I participate in this community of many faiths, many languages, and people from all over the world, I hope to gain an understanding of how they manage to share meals, chores, immigration hearings, birthday parties, fears, joys and sufferings with such cohesion and acceptance. Seeing how these sisters and refugees all live together gives me hope that we can all work for social change in our own small ways. Learning from these sisters how their faith translates into direct loving action for their neighbors from many countries gives me hope that something else is possible. Spiritual activism entails a worldview that resacralizes life which has implications for every aspect of our interconnected global world: not only religions, but also politics, economics, international relations, social awareness and our global responsibility for everything from climate justice to the refugee crisis.
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Sutton, Victoria. "A qualitative study exploring refugees' personal accounts of posttraumatic growth and positive change processes in adapting to life in the UK." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2005. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2178/.
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Ghneim, Jabra F. "The Practice of Belonging: Can Learning Entrepreneurship Accelerate and Aid the Social Inclusion of Refugees in the United States." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8979.
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This dissertation examines the role that culinary entrepreneurship communities of practice, using Lave and Wenger's Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) model (Lave & Wenger, 1991), can lead to better social and economic inclusion for Middle Eastern Muslim refugee chefs in Utah. The life history approach was used to construct life histories for two Middle Eastern Muslim refugee chefs in Utah who joined the Spice Kitchen Incubator (SKI) program. SKI is a community of practice funded by the International Rescue Committee to assist refugee chefs in the resettlement process. This was an exploratory study, and given the limited number of cases reviewed, the conclusions cannot be generalized. However, this study concludes that SKI, as a community of practice, despite the many difficulties faced by refugee programs in the period 2016-2018 (the study period), had a positive impact on the social and economic inclusion outcomes for the participants.
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Nieminen, Satu. "The voice of refugee clients in psychiatric health care - Occupational justice, occupational therapy, and a better quality of life." Thesis, Jönköping University, Hälsohögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42139.
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Background: Finland faced a large inflow of refugees during 2015-2016. That forced the professionals from different fields to reflect on services they produce. Occupational therapy and research among the mental health care of refugees is limited. In order to improve and strengthen services for refugees, we need to listen to their needs. Aim: This study aimed to investigate how adult refugees experience the Finnish mental health services, and what kind of self-perceived well-being elements do adult refugees find as important towards better quality of life. Method: This qualitative grounded theory study consists of six refugee interviews. The data were analysed by qualitative content analysis and the Participatory Occupational Justice Framework was used as a framework for the presentation of the data. Results: The Finnish mental health interventions are mostly available and based on discussion and medication. Information and supporting environment, occupational and social participation, self- direction, and time use are the base of the experienced well-being. The results show that occupational therapy can offer tools for the mental health work among refugees, bring important information of the person´s occupational history, needs, roles, and habits, and it should be taken alongside traditional therapies.
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Morrice, Linda Mary. "Managing the transition to a new life : a longitudinal study of learning processes and identity (re)formation among refugees in the UK." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2527/.
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Over the last two decades there have been dramatic increases in the movement of people around the globe. The UK, like other wealthy countries in the global north, has become the recipient of increasing numbers of refugees, many of whom are highly qualified and have professional backgrounds (Kirk 2004; Houghton and Morrice 2008). This thesis captures the experiences of refugees with professional and higher level qualifications as they seek to rebuild their lives in the UK. Rather than look at migration through more traditional lenses of assimilation and acculturation it instead links the experience of refugees with theories and processes of learning and identity formation. This offers a more nuanced and fine grain understanding and analysis of refugee experience. The study is guided by two broad questions: firstly, how might individual biography shape and inform the strategies adopted by refugees in the UK, and secondly, what insight does learning (both informal and formal) offer to our understanding of the processes involved in transition to the UK. To address this I have adopted a longitudinal approach which follows five refugees over a four year period as they move through the asylum system, negotiate a new social space and enter higher education. The narratives presented illuminate the hybridity of experience and indicate how each refugee has his or her own personal story which is linked to their unique biographical, cultural and social background. However, each narrative is lived within the broader social template of what it means to be a refugee in the UK in the first decade of the twenty first century, and how this template is negotiated, managed and sometimes subverted in different ways. These experiences cross cut and intersect with differences of ethnicity, of gender, of country of origin, faith and age. I draw on Bourdieu's framework of capital, field and habitus as tools to apprehend and explore the processes underlying the narratives (1977; 1998; 1999). Becoming a refugee in the UK firmly placed participants into symbolic structures of inequality and disadvantage. They are structured and positioned through mechanisms of capital transformation and trading which mean that they rarely have opportunities to convert and trade up the capitals they possessed into symbolic capital, and educational and employment reward. The narratives presented depict the struggles of refugees to accrue and convert capital in order to claim a positive identity. It is also about the struggle to be recognised as having moral worth, to be respected and seen to be respectable (Skeggs 1997; Sayer 2005). A broad range of learning processes are involved in managing transition. To capture the profundity and complexity of subjective construction and identity formation I suggest conceptualising learning as processes of ‘becoming' and ‘unbecoming'(Biesta 2006; Hodkinson et al. 2007). From the disintegration and deconstruction of self which accompanies migration this research illuminates how participants learn to ‘become', which in its broadest sense is learning how to rethink themselves in order to live with integrity and dignity in a new social space.
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Stefan, Marius F. "In searching for Belonging-Almost at home abroad : A qualitative study on the way refugees developfeelings of home and belonging in the Romanian citiesof Bucharest and Timisoara." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158983.
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Due to an increased flow of refugees, migration has become an important issue that hasraised a lot of concern during the past years. During 2015 alone European member statesreported almost two million migrants crossing their external borders. This study aims tobring into light how the refugees that arrived in Romania starting with late 2014 till present,after being granted asylum or subsidiary protection manage to accommodate themselveswithin the communities they choose to settle. It does so by exploring the way these refugeesconstruct and develop feelings of home and belonging abroad. This study research questionsare first: how do refugees experience local communities and establish feelings of home andbelonging? and second: how does the life course perspective help the refugees getaccommodated to their new urban environment? The empirical research to answer thesequestions is qualitative, relying on in depth, semi structured life history interviews held withrefugees that have been granted asylum or subsidiary protection by the Romanian statestarting with the late 2014 until present. The findings pointed out: 1) the effect of the lifecourse: (e.g. the events of being uprooted and relocated into a foreign land brought lifealtering changes in an individuals’ life course). 2) The individuals interviewed showedintimate emotions about their new home and feelings of belonging. 3) The informantsperceived their experience as a perceptual process of negotiation with themselves and thelocal community from which they belong.
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Valenta, Marko. "Finding friends after resettlement : A study of the social integration of immigrants and refugees, their personal networks and self-work in everyday life." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of sociology and political science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1812.
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The social integration of first generation immigrants in Norway is the main topic of this study. Although most immigrants in Norway receive generous resettlement and welfare assistance from the state, experiences of non-belonging, cultural distance and lack of recognition from the mainstream are still a common fact of daily social life for many of them. In this study, I relate these experiences to relationships that immigrants have established with other people. My interest is primarily on immigrant identities and the meanings they attach to interactions and relations within their social networks.
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Evans, Shelly D. "Perceptions of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) experienced by older ethnic Somalis aging transculturally in the U.S.: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1628200027072086.
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Miletic, Blanka. "Psycho-Social, Work, and Marital Adjustment of Older Middle-Aged Refugees from the Former Yugoslavia." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30430.
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Adopting the Ecological Contextual Model of Acculturation and Adjustment (Birman, 1994; Trickett, 1996) and the Stress and Coping paradigm (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, 1986, 1991), the present thesis explored the psycho-social, work, and marital adjustment of 200 established older middle-aged refugees from the Former Yugoslavia living in the Ottawa area. More specifically, three studies were conducted to examine specific stressors and resources of relevance to the adjustment of Former Yugoslavian men and women, across the following three distinct life domains: psycho-social, work, and marital. Study I explored the potential buffering effects of interpersonal trust on the relational growth of Former Yugoslavian refugees. Results demonstrated that interpersonal trust moderated the negative effects of war-related trauma on the relational growth of Former Yugoslavian women. No such buffering effect was found for the men. Study II investigated Former Yugoslavians' work adjustment by exploring the influence of pre-migratory work-related expectations-outcome congruence, occupational mobility, work stress (general and discrimination), as well as personal (education, English language proficiency) and social resources (support at work) on their work satisfaction and distress. Results indicated that different factors emerged as significant predictors of work satisfaction and work distress for Former Yugoslavian men and women. Study III explored the potential moderating role of marital resilience on the relationship between marital stress (general and acculturative) and marital adjustment. Results showed that marital resilience moderated the negative effects of marital stress on the marital adjustment of Former Yugoslavian women. No protective effect of marital resilience was found for the men. Taken together, the results of the three studies provide support for the relevance and importance of studying the stress, resources, and adjustment of refugees across contexts and gender. Given that important gender differences were found in different adaptational domains, the need to study further the impact of gender in refugees is reinforced. The findings are discussed within the current gender and migration literatures as well as the multidimensional theories of cross-cultural adjustment. Theoretical, research, and clinical implications were presented, along with recommendations for future research.
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Carapeto, Adriana Mafalda Quintino. "Refugiados, fronteiras e imagem:contributos a partir da etnografia visual." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14071.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em AntropologiaA crise dos refugiados despoletou a corrida às fronteiras por parte dos meios de comunicação social. São estes que, através da sua própria perspetiva, divulgam através de imagens os acontecimentos, criando consequentemente uma representação dos “refugiados” através dessas mesmas imagens. A tendência representativa deste fenómeno assenta numa perspetiva monocular, que influencia a opinião coletiva, vincando a relação entre o “eu” e o “outro”. Uma primeira pessoa fotografa para uma segunda pessoa sobre uma terceira pessoa. Neste sentido, a perspetiva monocular chama à discussão o olhar panótico de Michel Foucault, pois a terceira pessoa, o “refugiado”, é vista sem ter a oportunidade de ver, sem ter a oportunidade de se “defender” da representação que lhe é atribuída. Como consequência, a constante reprodução de imagens torna o fenómeno universal aos olhos de quem as vê. Esta regularidade fomenta a banalização do fenómeno, evocando na opinião coletiva a aceitação e, posteriormente, a perpetuação da Bare-Life. O objetivo da presente investigação é o de, recorrendo à pesquisa etnográfica, identificar as principais caraterísticas desta representação e aferir da sua coincidência com a autorrepresentação dos refugiados e de outros que estiveram em alguns dos principais palcos da chamada ‘crise de refugiados’.
The refugees crisis sparked the eye-light of social communication media on European borders. The latter shoot and publish images of refugees, that boost a social representation of the occurrence. The patterns of representation are underpinned in a public-opinion-influencing monocular perspective, thus deepening the cleavage in the relationship between “us” and “they”. A person A photographs a person C for the sake of a person B. The monocular perspective recalls Michel Foucault’s “Panopticon”, hence the third person, the “refugee”, is seen with no opportunities to see nor to defend the representation he is attributed. Furthermore, the constant display of migrants’ images make the referred occurrences a universal phenomenon for the viewer, whilst trivializing it and evocating acceptance and perpetuation of Bare-Life within the society. Through the use of ethnographic methods, the research primarily aims to identify the main features of refugees’ social representation. This partial outcome will be bridged with refugees’ own self-representation. Moreover, it will be considered also the representation pictured by workers and volunteers at the European borders, thus the main stage of the actual “refugee crisis”.
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Bartusevičiūtė, Giedrė. "Teisė susijungti su šeima Europos Sąjungoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20100224_102449-10553.
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Šeimos susijungimas garantuojamas tarptautinių ir ES teisės aktų bei nacionalinių teisės aktų pagrindu. Teisė susijungti su šeima trečiųjų šalių piliečiams ES tiesiogiai įvardija direktyva 2003/86/EB. Šeimos susijungimo atveju, šeimos nariais gali būti sutuoktinis(ė) bei jo(s) nepilnamečiai vaikai. Nacionaliniai teisės aktai gali numatyti ir kitus šeimos narius, atsižvelgus į pasekmių, kurios kiltų neleidus susijungti, sunkumą.
Įvertinus ES piliečių ir jų šeimos narių apsigyvenimą ES valstybių narių teritorijoje bei trečiųjų šalių šeimų apsigyvenimą ES teritorijoje galime teigti, kad trečiųjų šalių piliečių ir jo šeimos narių apsigyvenimas yra apibrėžtas didesne sąlygų išpildymo apimtimi, dėl kurių šeimoms ir kyla daug problemų. Trečiųjų šalių piliečiai teisės susijungti atžvilgiu gali būti pabėgėlio statusą turintys asmenys arba kiti užsieniečiai, kurie turi laikiną arba nuolatinį leidimą gyventi ES.
Teisės susijungti su šeima kontekste išryškėja šios problemos. Pirma, fiktyvios santuokos sudarymas, siekiant apsigyventi ES valstybių narių teritorijoje ne dėl šeimos santykių, o dėl to, kad gauti ES leidimą gyventi. Antra, nesantuokinės partnerystės ir tos pačios lyties santuokų sudarymo problematika, nes įvairios valstybės narės skirtingai reglamentuoja šiuos santykius. Trečia, nors suteikiamos teisės artimos pabėgėlio statusui, tačiau asmenims besinaudojantiems laikina ir papildoma apsauga, teisė susijungti garantuojama ne visose ES valstybėse. Ketvirta, reikalavimo dėl... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Family reunification is guaranteed by both by EU and national legislation. Right to reunify with family members for 3rd countries citizens in EU is defined by directive 2003/86/EB. Family members are defined as a spouse and his/her under-age children. National law can also determine other family members depending on consequences that might arise due to family inability to reunify. Estimating settlement of EU and non-EU citizens in EU territory it can be noticed that for citizens of 3rd countries and their family members settling is more restricted due to requirements to meet more conditions. Citizens of 3rd countries that can apply for reunification are persons that have refugee status or have temporary or permanent residence permit in EU. A few problems was noticed analysing EU family reunification law. First is fictitiuos marriage in order to settle in EU territory not due to family relationships, but due to having residence permit in EU. Secondly, non-marital partnership and marriage of the citizens of the same sex regulation in EU members varies. Thirdly, for persons, having temporary or complementary protection, right to reunify with family is not guaranteed in all EU countries even if they receive rights similar to refugee status. Finally, there is a problem of requirement to live in EU member state for a certain period before reunification, because EU law transfer to national legislation varies from country to country and for example in Lithuania is even inaccurate... [to full text]
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Araya, Mesfin. "Postconflict internally displaced persons in Ethiopia : mental distress and quality of life in relation to traumatic life events, coping strategy, social support, and living conditions." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Univ, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1434.
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黃明康 and Min-hon Thomas Wong. "A Vietnamese village in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984885.
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Lindström, Anders. "Inte har dom gjort mej nåt : En studie av ungdomars attityder till invandrare och flyktingar i två mindre svenska lokalsamhällen." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Pedagogik, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-7.
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The main purpose of this dissertation was to analyse and compare the attitudes of young people who lived in two different local contexts towards foreigners and immigrants. In the main study 36 teenagers, 17 from Bruksort and 19 from Industriort, were interviewed. Both local societies are rather small and dominated by one major industry, and a large number of the inhabitants are workers. Prospects for the future differed – in Bruksort people did not believe they had a future in the community because of the lack of jobs, while the people in Industriort felt a certain optimism in this respect, as the major industry was doing well. While Industriort had a long tradition and experience of immigration, Bruksort did not. Refugee camps were established in both societies in the early 1990s. The interviews brought up questions of attitude towards foreigners and immigrants. The analysis is also in part based on two pilot studies and an analysis of articles and letters to the editor in the local press, Industriort News and Bruksort Times during 1991-99. Two different discourses were analysed in the main study: the discourse of refugees, immigration, racism and anti-racism in the local press, and discourse of the young people´s discussions of those subjects. These two ways of talking were compared in order to discover possible patterns and changes in underlying thought figures in each town. The importance of the locality was demonstrated in the study. Young people are affected by political decisions, by demands made by adults and by the media. However young people are also being brought up in an active way by their own local society. The inhabitants of Bruksort were suspicious of strangers and of “the other”. However, in Industriort this sort of suspicion was only temporarily acted out towards the refugees in the camp and quickly dissipated because the refugees were integrated into the society. Also, a number of the young inhabitants in Industriort had an immigrant background themselves. The gender difference is notable; girls and boys narrated divergent versions of the events that had taken place involving the inhabitants and the refugees. The girls had a more emphatic way of reasoning about refugees and of the situation immigrants´ of than the boys. Boys on the other hand had been in conflict with the people from the refugee-camp and present juridical and economic arguments about Swedish immigration policies. It is concluded that creating meeting places where people from different ethnic backgrounds can get together and learn to know each other is of crucial importance. Also, the fact that young people seemed to be unaware of the anti-racist projects arranged by the school in Bruksort and the youth centre in Industriort a few years prior to the interviews, and that most of the teenagers interviewed felt that school had done too little, if anything, regarding the discussion of such matters as refugees, immigration and racism, emphasises the importance of more deliberate and longterm strategies as opposed to short term projects.
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Gustafson, Åsa. "Sköra livsmönster : Om integrations- och normaliseringsprocesser bland bosniska flyktingar." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Sociology, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-267.
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The aim of this study is to illustrate and unfold the dynamic interaction between conditions of integration and patterns of integration, in other words the structural conditions related to processes of integration and normalization of every day life. This is done with concrete reference to Bosnian refugees living in Malmö and Umeå during 1996-1997, having received permanent permission to stay in Sweden during 1992-1995. How do refugees under different conditions arrange their lives, perceive their own life situation, manage the course of daily life and develop individual life patterns? The study shows that processes of integration and normalisation depend on and has an impact on involvement and participation in social, economic, political and cultural life in general. Background statistics, official documents and local daily press material together with intense interviews with Bosnian refugees and key-informants constitute the empirical base of the study. The theoretical base consists of a holistic perspective on integration, including aspects of ethnicity, culture and gender. The focus is on the double-sided processes of integration among refugees in relation to the established population. Refugees’ processes of integration and normalization are described and discussed with reference to patterns of living conditions, patterns of integration, patterns of action and patterns of attitudes. The general conclusion is that refugees’ life patterns are very fragile. Processes of integration and normalization depend on conditions of involvement and of participation as well as the openness of the society at large and specifically on how civil, political and social rights are supplied for. This in turn raises the question of the importance of not only formal but also substantial citizenship rights. Integration is also closely related to possible changes towards more flexible gendered spaces of action. The more equal gender relations in the family become the more it opens up for possibilities of integration and normalization for both women and men. Encompassing possibilities to integration into the society at large combined with increased potentials of altering conventional power relations between women and men are vital for the processes of integration and normalization among refugees.
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Mancilla, Garcia Maria. "Pollution, interests and everyday life in Lake Titicaca : negotiating change and continuity in social-ecological systems." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1ad3d62d-9be8-4d0c-98da-c3a08f7c91bc.
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Environmental governance is a challenging topic in development contexts. On the one hand, the traditional development paradigm is based on economic growth through environmental exploitation; on the other, environmental degradation reduces vulnerable populations’ options for development. In the last thirty years numerous attempts to integrate environmental concerns in development policies have proved unsuccessful, raising questions as to whether the current governance system can address the challenge. The literature on environmental management has focused on identifying rules for successful governance, leaving little space to explore the complexities of the interactions between actors and their environments, wherein the reasons for sustained degradation might lie. The questions that this thesis asks are: How do diverse groups of actors rationalize and interact with degraded ecosystems? And what role does the governance system play in codifying these interactions? To answer these questions, the thesis engages in an institutional study of Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia. The lake has witnessed a degradation of its bay in the last thirty years, as a result of urban and mining development in the region. A complex web of organizations that go from the bi-national to the community level manages Lake Titicaca. The investigation of the questions asked is particularly relevant in the current context, as the countries to which the lake belongs put forward significantly different visions of the environment. By drawing on the strengths of social-ecological systems frameworks proposed by the two mains schools – the Resilience Alliance and Bloomington Workshop – and filling some of their deficiencies using insights from the sociological literatures on negotiation and justification, I hope to have created a composite framework with which to give an insightful account of the complexity and diversity at play in the field. The thesis adopts a broad range of qualitative methods (observation, interviews, document analysis) completed with descriptive statistics for budget analysis. The thesis argues that the actors’ approaches to the ecosystem are complex, diverse and constitutive of social-ecological systems wherein relationships are negotiated between actors, between actors and the ecosystem and ‘within’ actors as they hold competing visions and strategies. Some of the variables shaping these negotiations are crafted through the interaction between social and ecological elements, which also influence the actors’ understanding of the system. Others are determined by parameters crafted in the social sphere, and the ways in which social-ecological interactions fit with those. Policy interventions to improve the condition of Lake Titicaca need a more sophisticated understanding of these social-ecological systems.
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Eriksson-Sjöö, Tina. "Utmaningar och bemötande i flyktingmottagandet." Licentiate thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-7375.
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Syfte: Det övergripande syftet med denna licentiatavhandling är att beskriva resultat från en kartläggning av hälsosituationen hos nyanlända flyktingar som genomgår SFI studier samt att belysa den självskattade hälsorelaterade livskvalitet som arabisktalande deltagare i en specifik hälsofrämjande gruppaktivitet (Hälsoskola) beskriver före, efter samt vid en sexmånaders uppföljning av aktiviteten. Design, metod, urval: Urvalet deltagare i delstudie I var nyanlända arabisktalande flyktingar bosatta i Fosie stadsdel i Malmö och som deltog i SFI utbildning. Undersökningsgruppen bestod av sammanlagt 67 personer, 52 procent män och 48 procent kvinnor. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med hjälp av frågeformulär innehållande frågor om familj och anhöriga, nätverk och service, svenskundervisning och delaktighet, introduktion och hjälpbehov samt om sömn och återhämtning. I delstudie II bestod urvalet av arabisktalande nyanlända flyktingar som genomgick en sju veckors Hälsoskola som en del i sin introduktionsplanering. Dataunderlag bestod av kvalitativa data inhämtat vid deltagande observationer och muntliga grupputvärderingar med 65 kursdeltagare. Därutöver besvarades ett frågeformulär för självskattning av hälsorelaterad livskvalitet samt om sömn och återhämtning. Frågeformuläret besvarades vid kursstart, kursavslutning samt sex månader efter kursens slut. Respondenter i denna del var 39 kursdeltagare som besvarat samtliga tre frågeformulärsomgångar. Därutöver innehåller avhandlingen en artikel vars syfte är att beskriva kursen/metoden Hälsoskola, dess bakgrund och teoretiska kopplingar samt den samverkansprocess som utvecklats mellan professionella aktörer och brukare. Resultat: I delstudie I rapporterade respondenterna hög förekomst av sömn- och trötthetsbesvär. Sextioåtta procent av respondenterna hade sömnproblem motsvarande hälften av veckans dagar. Något färre 43 % rapporterade regelbundna besvär med sömnighet, till exempel att man nickade till under dagen. Fyrtioen procent (män 36 %, kvinnor 50 %) uppfyllde kraven för klinisk insomni baserat på att respondenterna hade både sömnbesvär och trötthetsbesvär under minst hälften av veckans dagar. Därutöver upplevde drygt 80 % av samtliga stor oro över sin familj eller andra anhöriga i hemlandet. Många kände sig isolerade och ensamma, hade svårt att få kontakter med föreningsliv, få tillgång till platser för kulturella aktiviteter, för religionsutövning och för sportaktivitet. Många upplevde också svårighet att få tillgång till hälso- och sjukvård samt tandvård. I utbildningssituationen upplevde drygt hälften stora svårigheter att förstå vad läraren sade och 68 % hade svårt att hinna med i tempot på lektioner. Drygt 64 % rapporterade koncentrationssvårigheter, de hade problem att förstå hemuppgifter liksom att kunna göra hemuppgifter i lugn miljö. För många respondenter rådde oklarhet om introduktionsplanen och cirka hälften av dem hade velat få mera hjälp av sin introduktionshandläggare med läkar- och sjukvårdskontakter samt med sin bostadssituation. I den kvalitativa delen av delstudie II vars syfte var att belysa de viktigaste frågorna från deltagarnas synvinkel, utkristalliserade sig fyra kategorier: 1) Fördjupningsfrågor beträffande innehåll i kursen/Hälsoskolan. 2) Kommentarer angående form och struktur på kursen/Hälsoskolan. 3) Vilka av kursdeltagarnas ”behovsområden” som kursen/Hälsoskolan täcker in och vilka områden som saknas? 4) Vad kursdeltagarna önskar få framfört till administratörer, beslutsfattare och politiker. I den kvantitativa uppföljningsstudien framkom att deltagarna upplevde en hög grad av sömn och koncentrationsproblematik vid kursstart. Denna problematik var betydligt mindre vid kursens avslutning och förändringen kvarstod vid uppföljning sex månader senare. Det framkom även att sömnproblematik var relaterad till de fem variablerna av hälsorelaterad livskvalitet;( rörlighet, aktivitet, egenvård, smärta och oro/depression) och till upplevelsen av det allmänna hälsotillståndet. Angående variablerna smärta och oro/depression kvarstod en signifikant förändring både vid uppföljning ett och vid uppföljning två sex månader efter kursavslut. Både män och kvinnor bedömde sitt allmänna hälsotillstånd som signifikant bättre vid båda uppföljningarna jämfört med vid kursstart, men förändringen var störst beträffande kvinnorna. Konklusion: De sammantagna resultaten visar att det finns en hög fysisk och psykisk ohälsoproblematik i den undersökta populationen med avseende på deras självskattade hälsa. Denna problematik har ett nära samband med sömn och koncentrationsproblem och får även konsekvenser för de nyanländas dagliga aktiviteter och etablering i det nya samhället. Det framkommer ett stort behov av hjälp från hälso- och sjukvården men också en brist på tillit till detsamma, bland annat beroende på svårtillgänglighet och brist på professionella tolkar. Å andra sidan visar resultaten i denna licentiatavhandling att mottagningssystemet med noga överlagda insatser kan åstadkomma betydande positiva förändringar för gruppen nyanlända flyktingar. Den självupplevda hälsorelaterade livskvaliteten för deltagare i kursen Hälsoskola visade på signifikanta förändringar inom de undersökta aspekterna för gruppen som helhet vid kursslut och vid senare uppföljning. De reella faktiska kunskaperna inom egenvård och om det svenska hälso- och sjukvårdssystemet hade ökat betydligt vid kursavslut. Nämnda effekter kan även få positiva följdverkningar för nästa generation och andra personer i kursdeltagarnas nära omgivning.Aim: The overall aim of this thesis is to describe the results of a survey of the health situation of newly-arrived refugees attending a course in Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) (study I) and elucidate the self-rated health-related quality of life that Arabic-speaking participants in a spe-cific health-promoting group activity (Health School) report before, immediately after and at a six-month follow-up of that activity (study II). Design, method, sample: The sample in study I comprised newly-arrived Arabic-speaking refugees living in the Malmö district of Fosie who were attending a SFI course. A total of 67 persons participated, 52 per cent men, 48 per cent women. Data were collected with the aid of a questionnaire with both open-ended and closed alternative responses about family and relatives, networks and services, Swedish language lessons and participation, introduction and needs, sleep and recovery. In study II the sample comprised newly-arrived Arabic-speaking refu-gees who attended a seven-week Health School as a part of their intro-ductory planning. The study was based on qualitative data obtained by participatory observation and oral group evaluations with 65 course participants. In addition, we used a questionnaire with closed response alternatives for self-rating health-related quality of life, including sleep and recovery. The questionnaire was administered at the beginning and end of the group activity as well as six months after the end. This sam-ple comprised 39 participants in the group activity who responded to the questionnaire on all three occasions. Furthermore, the thesis contains an article describing the Health School group activity/method, its background and theoretical links, as well as the collaborative process that developed between professionals and re-cipients. Results: The respondents in study I reported a high frequency of sleep- and fatigue-related complaints. Sleep disturbances on the equivalent of every other day were reported by 68 per cent and somewhat fewer, 43 per cent, reported regular problems with drowsiness, for instance drop-ping off during the day. Criteria for clinical insomnia were met by 41 per cent (36 per cent of the men, 50 per cent of the women), based on the combination of sleep disturbance and complaints of fatigue at least every other day. In addition, over 80 per cent of the sample experienced great anxiety about their family or other relatives in their home country. Many felt isolated and lonely, found it hard to get in touch with associations, have access to places for cultural activities, practicing religion and participating in sports. Many also experienced difficulties in gaining access to health care and dental care. In the educational situation (SFI), more than half had great difficulty in understanding what the teacher said and 68 per cent found it hard to keep up with the pace of the lessons. More than 64 per cent reported difficulties with concentration, problems with understanding homework and being able to do homework in a calm environment. Many respondents were uncertain about the introductory plan and roughly half had wanted their introductory officer to be more helpful in contacts with health care, including doctors, and housing matters. The qualitative part of study II, which aimed to elucidate the most im-portant issues according to the participants, gave rise to four categories: 1) More in-depth issues concerning the content of the group activi-ty/Health School, 2) Comments on the form and structure of the group activity/Health School, 3) Which of the participants’ “needs” were cov-ered by and which were missing, and 4) What the participants wanted to convey to administrators, decision-makers and politicians. The quantitative follow-up study showed that when the group activity started, the participants experienced a high degree of problems with sleep and concentration. Such problems were considerably less frequent at the end of the activity and this change persisted six months later. Moreover, the sleep disturbances were related both to the five variables of the health-related quality of life (mobility, activity, self-care, pain and anxiety/depression) and to the perception of general health. The variables pain and anxiety/depression showed significant improvements at the end of the activity as well as six months later. Men as well as women rated their general health as significantly improved at both follow-ups compared with baseline; the change was greatest for women. Conclusions: Taken together, the results show that in terms of self-rated health, the studied population has a high degree of problems with physical and mental ill-health. These problems are closely related to problems with sleep and concentration, besides having consequences for the newly-arrived persons’ daily activities and for settling in the host country. A great need of assistance from health care emerges, as well as a lack of trust in this, partly due to difficulty of access and a lack of professional interpreters. At the same time, the findings in this thesis show that the reception sys-tem with evidence-based inputs can achieve considerable positive changes for newly-arrived refugees. The self-rated health-related quality of life for participants in the group activity/Health School showed that for the group as a whole, the studied aspects had improved significantly both by the end of the activity and at the six-month follow-up. Proper actual knowledge about self-care and the Swedish health care system had increased significantly by the end of the activity. These effects can also have positive consequences for the next generation and others close to the participant. The group activity needs to be tested with other language groups of newly-arrived in order to warrant general conclusions.
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TAGLIABUE, CLAUDIA. "RIFUGIATO IN FAMIGLIA. UNO STUDIO DI CASO SU UNA NUOVA FORMA DI ACCOGLIENZA PER RICHIEDENTI ASILO E TITOLARI DI PROTEZIONE INTERNAZIONALE E UMANITARIA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/50313.
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La ricerca si pone l’obiettivo di indagare una nuova e sperimentale forma di intervento di accoglienza per richiedenti asilo e titolari di protezione internazionale e umanitaria rappresentata dall’accoglienza in famiglia di persone adulte straniere. Lo strumento dell’accoglienza in famiglia per richiedenti asilo e rifugiati rientra in un campo multidisciplinare non ancora approfondito a livello teorico sia rispetto ai riferimenti scientifici che ne hanno alimentato l’ideazione e la riflessione progettuale sia a livello di pratiche professionali di lavoro sociale. In questa ricerca, costruita attraverso un intreccio di strumenti qualitativi, si vuole contribuire a ricostruire questi aspetti non ancora formalizzati che lo contraddistinguono e esplorare le dimensioni dell’integrazione sulle quali l’accoglienza in famiglia va ad agire. La peculiarità di tale esperienza risiede nella partecipazione di quattro soggetti differenti (pubblica amministrazione, terzo settore, famiglie e beneficiari) che hanno interagito tra loro, attivando dinamiche di collaborazione integrate con il territorio, sottolineando la valenza bidirezionale dei processi di integrazione nella vita quotidiana. Per fare ciò lo studio di caso si è concentrato sul progetto “Rifugiato in famiglia” del Comune di Milano, implementato successivamente alla nascita di altre esperienze simili all’estero e sul territorio italiano, che verranno approfondite al fine di meglio comprendere questo particolare intervento.The research focuses on a new and experimental form of reception for asylum seekers and holders of international and humanitarian protection: hosting foreign adults in family. The intervention of hosting refugees in family is part of a multidisciplinary field that has not yet been investigated at a theoretical level, either in relation to the scientific references that nurtured design conception and reflection both at the level of professional social work practices. In this research, built through the aid of different qualitative methods, the aim is to contribute to reconstructing these not yet formalized aspects and to explore the dimensions of integration on which the reception in family works. The peculiarity of this experience lies in the participation of four different subjects (public administration, third sector, families and beneficiaries) interacting each other, activating integrated collaboration dynamics with the territory, underlining the bidirectional value of the integration processes in everyday life. In order to achieve this, the case study focused on the "Rifugiato in Famiglia” (Refugee in Family) project of the Municipality of Milan, implemented after the birth of other similar experiences abroad and in Italy, which will be analyzed in order to better understand this particular intervention.
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Forssell, Kenneth. "De första åren i Sverige som kvotflykting : Om hantering av vardagen med beredskap för taktiska manövrer." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-507.
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ABSTRACT Syftet med denna studie är att ge en bild av hur kvotflyktingar uppfattar och praktiskt hanterar sin tillvaro, samt att identifiera olika taktiker/strategier som därvid använts. Empirin består av ostrukturerade intervjuer med 4 informanter, vilka tidigare mottagits som kvotflyktingar. Intervjuerna har transkriberats och kodats för analys. Kvalitativ metod har använts. Teoretiskt ramverk för analys har bestått av tre kopplade ingångar: 1. Scenen för handling. 2. Habitus. 3. Taktiska dispositioner. Empirin visar att informanterna uppskattar Sverige som Scen för handling. Sverige uppfattas som ett tryggt och välordnat land. Demokrati, yttrandefrihet, religionsfrihet och vänlighet beskriver kontexten. Avigsidorna är byråkrati och disciplinering. Informanternas tidigare erfarenheter inverkar tydligt på hanteringen av tillvaron. Informanterna betonar vikten att se och hitta möjligheter i Sverige. Resultatet visar att informanterna tillämpar ett förhållningssätt med beredskap för taktiska manövrer längs vägen.2008-06-04
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Jay, Sarah 1986. "Vickery Meadow Community Needs Assessment." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699942/.
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This study represents a community needs assessment conducted for Trans.lation Vickery Meadow, a community-based organization in a North Dallas community, Vickery Meadow. Vickery Meadow is a community where refugee resettlement agencies place incoming clients, and therefore, there is a focus on immigrants and refugees in this study. Using theoretical conceptions of development, immigration policy, and the refugee resettlement process, this project measured residential perceptions of Vickery Meadow, the operations of Trans.lation Vickery Meadow, and overall community needs. Also included are perceptions of Trans.lation Vickery Meadow members concerning community needs and the operations of Trans.lation. Recommendations are made based upon research and conclusions from fieldwork.
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Mai, Dan T. "Sustaining family life in rural China : reinterpreting filial piety in migrant Chinese families." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8e679650-a857-4f3c-a5c1-770a1bff848e.
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This study explores the changing nature of filial piety in contemporary society in rural China. With the economic, social and political upheavals that followed the Revolution, can 'great peace under heaven' still be found for the rural Chinese family as in the traditional Confucian proverb,"make yourself useful, look after your family, look after your country, and all is peaceful under heaven"? This study explores this question, in terms not so much of financial prosperity, but of non-tangible cultural values of filial piety, changing familial and gender roles, and economic migration. In particular, it examines how macro level changes in economic, social and demographic policies have affected family life in rural China. The primary policies examined were collectivisation, the hukou registration system, marketization, and the One-Child policy. Ethnographic interviews reveal how migration has affected rural family structures beyond the usual quantifiable economic measures. Using the village of Meijia, Sichuan province, as a paradigmatic sample of family, where members have moved to work in the cities, leaving their children behind with the grandparents, the study demonstrates how migration and modernization are reshaping familial roles, changing filial expectations, reshuffling notions of care-taking, and transforming traditional views on the value of daughters and daughters-in-law. The study concludes that the choices families make around migration, child-rearing and elder-care cannot be fully explained by either an income diversification model or a survival model, but rather through notions of filial piety. Yet the concept of filial piety itself is changing, particularly in relation to gender and perceptions about the worth of daughters and the mother/ daughter-in-law relationship. Understanding these new family dynamics will be important for both policy planners and economic analysts.
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Laborde, André Luiz Portanova. "Refugiados Ambientais: um estudo sobre a política de proteção da vida e suas articulações entre os Direitos Humanos e a Educação Ambiental em uma dimensão ética." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FURG, 2013. http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/6015.
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O presente estudo tem por finalidade abordar sobre a temática dos refugiados sobre o prisma da educação ambiental em uma perspectiva ética. A intenção deste estudo é poder identificar qual o lugar do refugiado em nossa sociedade e a função social do Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados (ACNUR) no processo de proteger os direitos humanos das populações que vivem constantes deslocamentos em função de conflitos políticos e devastações ambientais, causadas pelas alterações climáticas que afetam nosso planeta. O problema de pesquisa apresentado por esta investigação discorre sobre: É possível afirmar sob um viés autoético que a política de direitos humanos promove a proteção da vida das populações diante das catástrofes ambientais? A hipótese/tese apresentada por esta pesquisa é de que a autoética, direitos humanos e educação ambiental se constituem em uma triunidade da civilidade da coexistência entre os seres humanos entre si e estes com o meio ambiente, tendo na “vida” elemento ético comum. Com esse questionamento procuramos estabelecer conexões com a política de ajuda humanitária da ONU para aproximar a questão da humanidade como um elemento para a investigação à educação ambiental. Nesse sentido, a questão da vida entra como elemento que justifica a preocupação em estudar sobre a problemática dos refugiados em uma proposta Autoética. O procedimento metodológico adotado foi a partir da construção de cartografias que foram construídas e tecidas com as informações dos artefatos midiáticos, documentos e as demais notícias contidas no site do ACNUR. Assim, é possível pensar que a vida e a condição humana por requerer sua garantia de sobrevivência é uma causa que a educação ambiental, neste contexto deve começar a se preocupar. Os refugiados são as pessoas mais vulneráveis desse mundo, e, portanto merecem nosso respeito e atenção.
The present research have the objective to aboard about the refuges theme around the optic of the environmental education in co-relation of the ethic perspective. The intention of these research is could be to identify the place of the refugee in our society and the social function of the United Nation Higher Commissariat to the Refugees (UNHCR) on the process to protect the human rights of the populations they leave in constant displacement because of the political conflicts and environmental devastations, caused by the climate changes they affect our planet. The research’s problem presented by this investigation is about: It’s possible to affirm under a bias self ethical the policy human rights to promote the protection of life of the populations in front of the environmental catastrophes? The hypothesis/thesis presented by these research is about the auto ethics, human rights and environmental education they constitute on the triunity of the civility of the coexistence between the human been and themselves and together with the environment, having in their “lives” the ethical common elemental . With these questioning we seek to establish connections with the ONU aid policy to approach the question of humanity. As an Elemental of investigation to environmental education. Accordingly, the life’s question enter like a Elemental that justify the preoccupation in studying about the problem of the refugees on a auto ethic proposal. The methodological procedure adopted was started of the construction of the cartographies that was made and woven with the information of the artifacts midiatic, documents and other news inside the site of UNHCR. So, it’s possible to think in life and her human conditionally request of survival warranty it’s a cause of environmental education , on this context we must to start to concern. The refugees are the most people vulnerable of this world, and, therefore they deserve our respect and attention.
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo abordar el tema de los refugiados en el prisma de la educación ambiental en una perspectiva ética. La intención de este estudio es identificar el lugar en el que refugiados en nuestra sociedad y la función social del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (ACNUR) en el proceso de protección de los derechos humanos de las personas que viven desplazamientos constantes debido a los conflictos políticos y devastaciones ambiental, causado por el cambio climático que afecta a nuestro planeta. El problema de investigación presentado en esta investigación se describe: Se puede argumentar que bajo um enfoque autoético la política de derechos humanos promueve la protección de la vida de las poblaciones frente a catástrofes ambientales? La tesis hipótesis / presentado por esta investigación es que autoética, los derechos humanos y la educación ambiental constituyen una civilidad triunidad de la convivencia entre los humanos y estos junto con el medio ambiente, y el elemento ético común de la "vida". Con esta pregunta se busca establecer conexiones con la política de enfoque humanitario de la ONU para la cuestión de la humanidad como un elemento a la investigación en educación ambiental. En este sentido, la cuestión de la vida entra como elemento que justifica la preocupación en el estudio sobre la situación de los refugiados en un Autoética propuesta. El método utilizado se basa en la construcción de las asignaciones que se han construido y se teje con la información de los artefactos multimedia, documentos y noticias de otro sitio que figura en el ACNUR. Así, es posible pensar que la vida y la condición humana, al exigir una garantía de supervivencia es la causa de que la educación ambiental en este contexto debería empezar a preocuparse. Los refugiados son las personas más vulnerables en este mundo, y por lo tanto merecen nuestro respeto y atención.