Search results for "refugee"

We made it to Germany … and now? Interdependent risks of vulnerability for refugees in a high-income country

2023

Refugees are perceived as a category of people that are ‘vulnerable’ per se. However, once they have arrived in (high-income) hosting countries and are supported by a welfare state, vulnerability needs to be rethought, as they face new challenges and potential sources of inequality. In this paper, we have measured vulnerability as the probability of experiencing jointly three interdependent risks: social isolation, financial worries and poor health. For this purpose, we estimated a trivariate logit model to evaluate how individual and household characteristics are associated with vulnerability and also made inferences regarding the residual association between pairs of risks, conditionally …

Prefazione a Sulaiman Addonia, Il silenzio è la mia lingua madre

2022

Sulaiman Addonia's 2018 novel Silence is My Mother Tongue, uncharacteristically set in a refugee camp, follows the sentimental education of a girl, Saba, in the place that she, her brother, and their friends have learnt to call home. The Preface to the Italian edition remarks how this classic and yet extraordinary coming-of-age novel offers a fundamental counter-narrative to the mainstream representations of life stories of minor refugees all over the world.

Returnees in Mooyyale District, Southern Ethiopia: New Means for an Old Inter-Ethnic Game

1997

Правительственная ревизія въ Латышскомъ центральномъ комитетѣ по оказанію помощи бѣженцамъ: копія съ доклада Особому Совѣщанію по устройству бѣженцевъ

1916

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Latvijas bēgļu atgriešanās

1922

Refugee Social Work Positioned Between Transnationalization, State Services and Volunteering: A Review from the German Context

2018

Social work has always been basically organized at the local and national levels. Nevertheless, in the face of globalization, social work has to be reconsidered far beyond national boundaries, because its clients’ social life worlds extend beyond local and state borders. This chapter analyzes the state of the art in the field of volunteering, refuge and social work and argues that due to its double mandate, social work could act as a bridge between state services and initiatives of the civil society and offer an insight into the ambiguities of cooperation between volunteering activities and professional social work using selected examples.

Religious Engagement and the Migration Issue: Towards Reconciling Political and Moral Duty

2020

The increasingly acknowledged post-secular perspective has resulted in the emergence of some new approaches theorizing this phenomenon. One such approach has been the concept of religious engagement, which calls for the redefinition of the perception of religious non-state actors towards including them as important partners in the process of identifying and realizing political goals. According to this view, due to the multidimensional role played by religious communities and non-state religious actors, they need to be recognized as pivotal in creating a new form of knowledge generated through encounter and dialogue of the political decision-makers with these subjects. Among numerous others,…

Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK

2022

Abstract This study compares the balance of newspaper and television news coverage about migration in two countries that were differently affected by the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 in terms of the geopolitical involvement and numbers of migrants being admitted. Based on a broad consensus among political elites, Germany left its borders open and received about one million migrants mainly from Syria during 2015. In contrast, the conservative British government was heavily attacked by oppositional parties for closing Britain’s borders and, thus, restricting immigration. These different initial situations led to remarkable differences between the news coverage in both countries. In line…

Guiding the development of community-based services for vulnerable migrants and refugees in Europe

2020

Abstract The Mig-HealthCare roadmap & toolbox emphasize an approach that can be implemented at a local community level by local health professionals. The roadmap and toolbox were the main outcome of the project which combines evidence from original research and other information to present concrete steps in the provision of care to migrants and refugees at a community level. The vision of Mig-HealthCare for this roadmap & toolbox is to (1) Help the health professionals working primarily at the community health care level to familiarize themselves with the key areas of importance in refugee/migrant health (2) Provide health professionals with a valuable set of best practices and hand…

Pilot action within the framework of the Mig-HealthCare project - implementation of community-based pilot studies addressing health inequalities of m…

2020

Abstract In the framework of the Mig-HealthCare project, a roadmap to community-based health care was developed including a toolbox and an algorithm. The Mig-HealthCare partners piloted parts of the roadmap in 8 EU countries. Piloting included actions on health promotion issues for migrants/refugees, mental health issues, non-communicable diseases, screening for breast and cervical cancer and vaccination issues. Two recommended practices were also piloted among migrants/refugees namely the 'circle of health' and health mentors while the Greek partner tested the developed algorithm in various health settings. All pilots were evaluated using common and pilot specific indicators for (a) approp…