Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees
01 Jan 2013-
TL;DR: The government of Hungary ratified this UN Convention and Protocol on refugee status on March 14, 1989; the government of Mozambique ratified the Protocol on May 1, 1989.
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The government of Hungary ratified this UN Convention and Protocol on refugee status on March 14, 1989; the government of Mozambique ratified the Protocol on May 1, 1989.
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TL;DR: This paper used the theory of segmented assimilation, which accounts for diverse entry situations and receptions of immigrant and refugee populations, to consider the needs and obstacles to education for refugees, and interventions for success.
Abstract: Since 1975, the United States has resettled more than 2 million refugees, with approximately half arriving as children. Refugee children have traumatic experiences that can hinder their learning. The United Nations has specified in conventions, and researchers have concurred, that education is essential for refugee children's psychosocial adjustment. However, government officials, public opinion, and researchers have often differed about what is best for refugees' healthy acculturation. On the basis of a large-scale longitudinal study of the children of immigrants and refugees, Portes and Zhou (1993) suggested the theory of segmented assimilation, which accounts for diverse entry situations and receptions of immigrant and refugee populations. This review uses their theory to consider the needs and obstacles to education for refugees, and interventions for success.
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TL;DR: In the introductory article to a six-part PLoS Medicine series on Migration & Health, series guest editors Cathy Zimmerman, Mazeda Hossain, and Ligia Kiss outline a migratory process framework that involves five phases: pre-departure, travel, destination, interception, and return.
Abstract: In the introductory article to a six-part PLoS Medicine series on Migration & Health, series guest editors Cathy Zimmerman, Mazeda Hossain, and Ligia Kiss outline a migratory process framework that involves five phases: pre-departure, travel, destination, interception, and return.
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TL;DR: It is clear that research assessing the treatment of PTSD in refugees is lagging behind that available for other traumatized populations, and a critical review of 19 research studies that have been undertaken to investigate the efficacy of these treatments is provided.
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...The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 42 million persons have been forcibly displaced either within their home countries or across national borders (UNHCR, 2009)....
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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The complex subject of this InterSecTions on environmental migration underlines the need to access it from different viewpoints, to follow up the chain of environmental deteriorations like land degradation, climate change, or sudden onset of hazard events.
Abstract: The complex subject of this InterSecTions on environmental migration underlines the need to access it from different viewpoints, to follow up the chain of environmental deteriorations like land degradation, climate change, or sudden onset of hazard events. Potential control measures to contain the damage or rehabilitate ecosystems and the physical environment, the attempt of society as a whole and individuals to adapt to changed realities are the next steps. Once these measures did not come forth or failed nothing is left but to flee.
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed the intellectual history of this swing of the pendulum and examined the rationale for the temporary disappearance of the environment from migration studies, as this major shift has not yet been fully or systematically studied.
Abstract: Beginning with Friedrich Ratzel, the founders of migration studies all mentioned the natural environment as an important determinant of human mobility. As migration theories grew in coherence and complexity over the course of the twentieth century, however, environmental considerations generally disappeared from explanations of displacement. They would reappear in a largely unconnected discourse stressing the threat of future waves of “environmental migrants” in the end-of-the-century context of climate change anxiety. This alarmist stance was heavily criticized by several migration scholars during the same period of time as a corpus of empirical studies emerged that reconsidered the possible impact of the environment on migration. The purpose of this article is to analyze the intellectual history of this swing of the pendulum. The first part examines the rationale for the temporary disappearance of the environment from migration studies, as this major shift has not yet been fully or systematically studie...
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