Voluntary and involuntary return migration has always been part of the contract labour migration system, but in the case of the Middle East its importance has increased substantially. Since the 1980s Pakistan, one of the major labour suppliers to the Arab world, has faced return…
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Sangin District, in Helmand Province, was once described by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates as “the most dangerous not only in Afghanistan but maybe the whole world.” Nevertheless, Afghan Government officials received a written offer of peace from the principal local grouping …
The level of brutality and violence against children abducted and forcefully conscripted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda pricked the conscience of humanity. The suffering of the people in northern Uganda was described by Jan Egeland, the former United Nati…
This study explores the different effects of gendered migration focusing on migration, return migration and reintegration challenges and opportunities facing female Ethiopian migrant returnees from Middle East countries. It looks into the different stages of migration to underst…
Why do some post-partitioned states have more successful outcomes than others? This thesis examines post-partition settings following ethnic civil wars. In previous research, scholars have investigated whether demographic partitions lead to a termination of violence and whether …
Abstract The United States armed forces have been involved with the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 and 2003 respectively. Characteristic of these missions has been rapid and repeated service member deployments. Extended absences for operational duty power…
Deployment to Afghanistan for Marines and Sailors stationed in Jacksonville, NC is continual. The transition back to home life can be both difficult and stressful. The purpose of this thesis is to increase awareness of the dynamics of reintegration of military members and their …
This paper examines the beginning of oral history, arrives at a definition, and historiography of oral history. The examination of methodology includes identification and justification of the project, instruments used, and questions asked. With a project identified, an applicabl…
This project documents the 18-month reentry trajectory of nine (including the author) United States Air Force Reservists returning home from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010. Compared with their Active Component peers, members of the Reserve Component are m…
There is a significant lack of research on veterans’ reintegration into civilian life, especially after the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq wars, concerning identity loss and crisis from transition. The purpose of this project, which includes the film Keep Fighting, is …
Involvement with the criminal justice system is a serious detriment to a person’s chances of gaining employment, especially to those possessing both an ex-offender and minority status. As such, a large body of existing literature is dedicated to examining the policies and progra…
The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of post-deployed veterans’ use of religion and spirituality. I used a transcendental phenomenological approach, following the seven steps of the Moustakas’ (1994) modification of the Van Kaam (1956) method for ana…
Wrongful convictions continue to receive increased attention among scholars and wider society. The majority of attention focuses on the causes of wrongful convictions and trying to estimate their occurrences. Far less is known about the community reintegration experiences of wro…
Post-9/11 Veterans are a growing demographic of Veterans, and are more likely than Veterans of earlier eras to endorse difficulties with readjustment after their military discharge. In addition to using Veteran Affairs (VA) services, Veterans rely on several types of coping stra…