The post-Cold war era marked the evolution in the changing nature of conflicts, transitioning from inter-state towards more complex intrastate encounters. This phenomenon consequently led to the increase of refugees and internally displaced persons which presented a set of key c…
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The importance of caring relationships between youth and their teachers, mentors, and tutors, for fostering positive academic and socioemotional outcomes is widely recognized in the literature (e.g. Hamre & Pianta, 2005; Hao & Pong, 2008; Wentzel, 2003). However, limited researc…
Members of ethnic- and nationality-based community organizations in the United States support their communities with their membership fees and donations, but they often show little interest in participating in volunteer activities. The purpose of this case study was to examine w…
For my thesis, I explore how South Sudanese refugees in central Iowa imagine a utopic South Sudan amidst contemporary inter-ethnic tensions emanating from their recently independent country. In central Iowa and in particular Des Moines, South Sudanese refugees subtly reproduce t…
This paper will conduct a comprehensive case study of Iraq’s displaced Christians in Jordan. It will analyze the living standards of this vulnerable population in the context of Jordanian policies. It will also highlight the differences between Iraq’s displaced Christians and it…
Refugees arriving in the United States are met with a multitude of challenges, especially in accessing health care. San Antonio, Texas, annually resettles about 700 refugees through a single refugee resettlement agency. One of the greatest needs the agency has identified is its …
This thesis reveals how eleven years at war and thirteen years of economic sanctions followed by invasion and occupation led to the degeneration of Iraq's health infrastructure and the health of a nation. It further argues that waves of internal and external displacement, omnipr…
This study examined the schooling experiences and perceptions of resettled sub-Saharan African middle school refugee students in a metropolitan area of the United States Southwest. The research questions underpinning this study included: What are the schooling experiences and pe…
This study examined the traumatic experiences and psychological symptoms of 60 refugees who were recently resettled in the United States. Subjects were from Cuba, Iraq, Haiti, Sudan, and Bosnia. Data was collected for each subject on traumatic experiences occurring prior to thei…
Due to the disruption of refugee women's lives before, during, and after flight, they take on new roles and responsibilities that raise the need for refugee women to acquire new skills and tools with which to handle their new life. The conventional approach is to look at a refug…
Global estimates suggest 20 million children from hundreds of different countries and cultures are currently displaced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced persons (USCR, 2000). Each year hundreds of thousands of children are resettled in second or third countrie…
This dissertation is an ethnomusicological study of the Palestinian dabke, a music and dance tradition that developed as an integral part of the Palestinian refugee experience. The focus is on Hanouneh, a dabke group in the majority Palestinian population of Amman, Jordan, where…
This is a study of refugees as a social category of people who have fled their country of citizenship in search of safety. The study examines the generations of refugees who sought asylum in Kenya between 1902 and 2002. The study examines the genealogies and experiences of Jewis…
BACKGROUND: Children who are exposed to war are at great risk of suffering mental health and developmental problems. The care children receive from parents during and after conflict is highly important, acting as a significant protective factor. The stress and difficulties of wa…
Movement, stasis, and the management of displacement underpin this thesis on refugee participation in UK higher education. Drawing on accounts from mature students of their experience of going to university in England and Wales, the study examines the intersection of higher educ…
Globalization in general and economic globalization in particular, as operated through the agencies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) is seen as a "saviour" (mostly by the developed countries) necessary for the attainm…
Recent refugees arriving in the United States have escaped political and social oppression in countries such as Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraqi Kurdistan, Laos, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, and Liberia. Drastic changes occur in the lives of individuals who flee their homes to a new count…
The purpose of this study was to more fully understand the language and literacy goals and values of a linguistically diverse Southern Sudanese refugee population residing in the Upper Midwest portion of the United States. The linguistic and cultural demographics of the area's m…
This dissertation is an ethnography about the making of communal spaces among southern (or Christian, African-oriented) Sudanese displaced in Muslim Arab Cairo, Egypt. Exploring the nature of refugee domains, this dissertation features portraits of refugee communal spaces and re…