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Vulnerability, resiliency, and dignity: psychosocial dimensions of the refugee experience.(Introduction)(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Within the realm of refugee work, "psychosocial" approaches tend to be labeled "soft" when compared to legal, economic, and medical perspectives. The term "psychosocial" itself encompasses many different ways of applying psychology and other social science ...
Do no harm: challenges in organizing psychosocial support to displaced people in emergency settings.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Psychosocial assistance in emergencies plays an important role in alleviating suffering and promoting well-being, but it is often a source of unintended harm. A prerequisite for ethically appropriate support is awareness of how psychosocial programs may cause harm. This ...
Who wants to return home? A survey of Sudanese refugees in Kakuma, Kenya.(Survey)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract With the goal of better understanding some of the psychological factors related to refugees' desire to return home, surveys were administered to 235 South Sudanese refugees living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. Respondents were asked about how much they wanted to ...
Understanding the dynamics of return: the importance of microfoundations.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Displaced persons are relevant actors in determining not only some of their life options but also some of the final results of violent conflict and policies addressing such conflict. Patterns of relocation and return are a key part of those results, especially ...
In the space between employees and clients: the impact of organizational context on a refugee program in Sierra Leone.(Report)(Case study)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract This paper uses a case-study approach to describe how organizational characteristics may influence program outcomes in humanitarian aid situations. Organizational structure and human resource management are discussed as organizational factors that influence the ...
Post-disaster mental distress relief: health promotion and knowledge exchange in partnership with a refugee diaspora community.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract After the 2004 Asian tsunami, a group of concerned scientists, physicians, and community service providers united to form a Local Distress Relief Network (LDRN) to provide information, referral, and care to affected members of the large Sri Lankan Tamil community in ...
Addressing the psychosocial needs of pregnant women affected by war: program approaches and program gaps.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Today's female refugee and internally displaced population faces the increasing risk of adverse birth outcomes associated with stress related to conflict, flight, and displacement. Programs addressing the specific psychosocial needs of pregnant women in situations of ...
Coming Home: connecting older Liberians in the Diaspora with the family and friends at home.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Coming Home is an arts initiative that uses photography and film to connect older Liberians in the Diaspora with friends and family at home. A group of elders in Staten Island came together to create messages for the author to carry to friends and family in Liberia. The ...
Internal exile: effects on families and communities.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Military regimes throughout Latin America used a variety of tactics to instill terror in the population. In the case of Chile, the military dictatorship used torture, assassination, disappearance, exile and relegacion, or internal exile, in its quest to weaken social ...
Confronting the insider-outsider polemic in conducting research with diasporic communities: towards a community-based approach.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Researchers focusing on diasporic contexts face the difficult task of wearing their "academic hats" while at the same time building meaningful relationships with immigrant communities. This is no more apparent (and important) than with "non-community" (i.e., outsider) ...
Dialectics of humanitarian immigration and national identity in Canadian public discourse.
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract Humanitarian immigration is an important element in the construction of Canada's identity as a liberal and compassionate country. Drawing on Hegelian dialectics, a discourse analysis of newspaper articles published between 1996 and 2001 examines processes of national ...
The resettlement challenge: integration of refugees from protracted refugee situations *.(Reprint)(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract This paper explores Canada's response, through our Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program, to developments in international refugee policy and will ask how Canada's resettlement program could be used more strategically in the future so as to meaningfully ...
Refugee solutions, or solutions to refugeehood?(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Writing in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Fleur Johns recently indicted international refugee law--the ostensible source of refugee rights and solutions--as being instead "a producer of ... pathology." She writes: <Pre>The Refugee Convention classifies ...
North-South dialogues in forced migration.
Sep 22, 2007; ... First let me express my thanks and appreciation to the International Association for Studies in Forced Migration for their collaboration with the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) in order to plan our conferences together. Yesterday, the CCR concluded its International Conference on ...
Informing integration: assessing what we know, admitting what we don't know.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Two things weigh on my mind as the process of getting this volume to press draws to a close. The first is that the response to our call for papers demonstrates how important this call truly is, and how far we still have to go as a community of knowledge to fully answer it. The second is ...
Refugee integration in Canada: a survey of empirical evidence and existing services.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract While a fairly large body of empirical research and policy documents exists on immigrant integration in Canada, studies on refugee integration are scarce. This paper attempts to fill this gap. It summarizes what is known about refugees' economic and socio-cultural ...
Resettlement's renaissance: a cautionary advocacy.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract Arising out of UNHCR's Global Consultations was a renewed emphasis on the role of resettlement as a protection tool, durable solution, and burden-sharing mechanism. Resettlement is a useful instrument for all three reasons enumerated by UNHCR. Its malleability, ...
The resettlement challenge: integration of refugees from protracted refugee situations.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract This paper explores Canada's response, through our Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program, to developments in international refugee policy and will ask how Canada's resettlement program could be used more strategically in the future so as to meaningfully ...
More than a "good back": looking for integration in refugee resettlement.(Report)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Abstract This paper describes the experiences of twenty-four Bosnian refugees resettled in the US and explores how achieving integration relates to the US policy contexts and programs. Juxtaposing refugee perspectives and policies, "lived experience" was compared with policies ...
On the outside looking in: the precarious housing situations of successful refugee claimants in the GVRD.
Sep 22, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Access to affordable and adequate housing is a key step in the successful integration of newcomers. While some immigrants are able to transition into home ownership quite rapidly, other newcomers are finding it increasing difficult to access basic shelter. There is ...