Search results for "Displaced person"

Newly Digitized Database Reveals the Lives and Families of Forced Migrants from Finnish Karelia

2017

Studies on displaced persons often suffer from a lack of data on the long-term effects of forced migration. A register created during 1960s and published as a book series ‘Siirtokarjalaisten tie’ in 1970 documented the lives of individuals who fled the southern Karelian district of Finland after its first and second occupation by the Soviet Union in 1940 and 1944. To realize the potential value of these data for scientific research, we have recently scanned the register using optical character recognition (OCR) software, and developed proprietary computer code to extract these data. Here we outline the steps involved in the digitization process, and present an overview of the Migration Kare…

Desplazados medioambientales y Derechos Humanos: una construcción conceptual sine qua non para su protección jurídica internacional | Environmental d…

2019

Resumen: El presente trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que no es posible diseñar un régimen de protección internacional para las personas desplazadas por disrupciones medioambientales sin antes aclarar qué se entiende por “desplazado medioambiental” y cómo se ha llegado a tal entendimiento. Así, el artículo se estructura en dos partes. La primera de ellas pretende reconstruir el íter que ha configurado la figura del desplazado medioambiental en el pensamiento académico, tanto desde los estudios medioambientales como desde los migratorios. La segunda, por su parte, analiza la primera definición de desplazado ambiental, con vocación jurídica, que aparece en plano internacional y la influencia …

EU Refugee Policies and Politics in Times of Crisis: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

2017

Phenomena such as civil war, protracted conflict, and deteriorating internal security, especially in the Middle East, Africa and Southern Asia, have triggered massive departures of civilian populations in recent years. The war in Syria alone has displaced over 5 million people (UNHCR, 2017a). While most of these forced migrants are either internally displaced or remain in Syria’s immediate neighbourhood, the numbers of those trying to come to Europe have steeply increased in 2015 and 2016. In each of these two years more than 1.2 million asylum-seekers submitted their asylum claims in the EU (Eurostat, 2017a), as compared to 625,000 in 2014 (Eurostat, 2015, p. 4). This represents the larges…

The Adaptation of an Ethnic Minority in Finland in the 1940s and 1950s: Orthodox displaced persons and the Lutheran indigenous population

2013

This article examines the imposed adaptation of Orthodox Finns, who were evacuated from territories ceded to the Soviet Union during the Second World War in the areas where they were settled. It elucidates both the settlement measures taken by the Finnish authorities and the unofficial forms of control, such as labelling and other discriminatory practices, exercised by the local populations. By controlling the behaviour of the displaced persons, the original inhabitants were able to make the newcomers conform to the values, norms and habits of the Lutheran community at both local and national levels.

Kontrolloitu sopeutuminen : ortodoksinen siirtoväki sotien jälkeisessä Ylä-Savossa (1946-1959)

2010

Asylum Migration, Borders, and Terrorism in a Structural Gravity Model

2021

This article has benefited from very helpful comments from two anonymous reviewers and the Academic Editor Inmaculada Martinez. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from Junta de Andalucia (SEJ 413), from Generalitat Valenciana (GV Prometeo 2018/102 and GV/2020/012), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-100899-B-I00, co-financed with FEDER), and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame).

Problemy funkcjonowania psychospołecznego i profesjonalnego wsparcia dzieci z rodzin wewnętrznie przesiedlonych na Ukrainie

2019

Cel: W pracy ukazano dylematy dotyczące dzieci pochodzących z rodzin imigrantów domowych na Ukrainie, których głównym problemem jest aspekt psychospołecznego funkcjonowania w środowisku. Metoda: Analiza dokumentów. Rezultaty: Opisano kierunki działań mające na celu stymulowanie rozwoju dziecka poprzez udzielanie pomocy psychologicznej w placówkach edukacyjnych lub ośrodkach usług socjalnych dla rodziny, dzieci i młodzieży, a także ukazano kierunki wsparcia wychowywania dziecka w środowisku rodzinnym. Przedstawiono niedociągnięcia i zalety tych przedsięwzięć, zarówno na szczeblu państwowym, jak i lokalnym. Wnioski: Postulowano o stworzenie programu przedstawiającego rozwiązania głównych prob…