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Neumann, Bradley C. "Is All Open Space Created Equal? A Hedonic Application within a Data-Rich GIS Environment." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/NeumannBC2005.pdf.
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Kaga, Midori Tijen. "Can Refugees Speak? Challenging Power and Creating Space in the Humanitarian System for Refugee Agency and Voice." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42113.
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Global humanitarian standards increasingly call for greater refugee participation in the decisions that affect refugees’ lives, with the dual aim of developing more equitable relations with refugees (transformative participation) and improving the effectiveness of aid interventions (instrumental participation). However, the limited research available suggests past approaches to refugee participation have habitually failed to meaningfully include refugees in the decision-making processes of humanitarian programs and policies. Rather, humanitarian organizations are criticized for paying lip service to refugee participation while maintaining control over important decisions and, thus, their power in relation to refugees. Though this issue has long been recognized as problematic, few studies have tried to understand and explain why efforts to implement meaningful refugee participation continuously fail to achieve this concept’s empowering and transformative objectives.
The following dissertation responds to this query through an in-depth case study of refugee participation in the context of Beirut, Lebanon with the objective of understanding: how urban refugees are able to participate in decision-making processes of the humanitarian interventions that impact their lives; what barriers exist that impede their participation; why these barriers endure; and what the consequences of a lack of meaningful refugee participation are to refugees and to the wider humanitarian response. I answer these questions by drawing on semi-structured, qualitative interviews with a diverse group of refugee participants (44 interviews) and humanitarian organizational participants (42 interviews). This data is triangulated by comparing and testing the information received from interview participants with each other and against documentary evidence, such as government and NGO policy documents and reports, quantitative studies, newspaper articles, field notes, and academic studies. My analysis is further strengthened by a conceptual framework built on three approaches: the concept of meaningful participation and what this really entails; a Foucauldian concept of power to explain how discourses of power/knowledge shape and produce the relations between refugees and humanitarian organizations; and the Capabilities Approach as a comprehensive framework that can strengthen and guide participatory processes to ensure they maintain their transformative objectives.
Relying on the perspectives of both humanitarian organizations and refugees, my research reveals conflicting understandings of what refugee participation means to these groups. Most humanitarian organizations view their efforts as generally successful and think that they listen to refugees. In contrast, refugees feel that their voices are frequently dismissed or ignored, particularly when their requests fail to match up with what organizations have already decided. This failure to listen to refugees’ voices and what they see as important creates a continuous gap between how humanitarian organizations, the Government of Lebanon, and refugees frame the problems at hand and the solutions to address these problems. In turn, this gap limits the impact of humanitarian efforts that aim to ‘protect’ refugees–in the fullest sense of this word–as refugees’ real needs go unmet. This forces refugees to respond in the few ways open to them, by resisting, manipulating, or avoiding humanitarian interventions all together, further undermining the effectiveness of these interventions.
It is often implicitly assumed that refugee participation will naturally lead to its intended outcomes of greater program effectiveness and more equitable power relations between refugees and humanitarian organizations. However, this thesis demonstrates that neither of these objectives can take place unless refugees have influence and control over the decisions that affect them. Building on these findings, I offer a number of concrete recommendations to address the barriers identified in the research and help make meaningful refugee participation a reality.
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White, Allen. "Legal spaces: resettled places : geographies of asylum in the UK." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312263.
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DE, LA CRUZ ELLEN IVONNE. "USE OF SPACE AND PATTERNS OF REFUSE DISPOSAL AT THE VILLAGE SITE OF MURCIELAGO, COSTA RICA (REFUSE PITS, SPATIAL ANALYSIS, ETHNOHISTORY)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183946.
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Theoretical and methodological issues of disposal behavior are examined at the village site of Murcielago. Ethnoarchaeological, archaeological, and modern material culture studies of discard practices are discussed. The generalizations and conclusions contained therein are incorporated into a synthesis of the emerging body of disposal theory. The method used for the analysis of Murcielago, which is drawn from traditional geographic models of land use, is described. The model allows description of the conventions governing the regulation of space and the delineation of disposal patterns. Analysis of artifact distributions illuminated the organization of household activities and the definition of activity differences.
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Giambusso, Anthony Frank. ""The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/351.
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My dissertation examines the difference between European and American forms of alienation. My thesis is that while European forms of alienation tend to arise out of an ideology (that of bourgeois culture) that disparages the material world, encouraging an attitude of resignation toward the established order, American forms of alienation tend to arise out of an ideology (that of the frontier) that disparages the social world, encouraging an attitude of rugged individualism which also results in an attitude of resignation toward the established order. Thus, both forms of alienation end up affirming the given order, but in very different ways. These different ways should affect how social theorists analyze American culture and help them avoid totalizing analyses that blur the distinctions between American and European cultures. In order to comprehend the nature of alienation in post-1945 American society, I trace three forms of alienation from three spaces of possibility: that of (1) European bourgeois culture; (2) the American frontier; and (3) the American counterculture. These three spaces are examined successively in each chapter of this dissertation. In the "Introduction" I provide a general overview of the project, explaining its origins and significance. Then, I delineate the scope of this project, offer provisional ways of understanding of "alienation," "alienation in the European context," and "alienation in the American context," and discuss how my dissertation employs the metaphor of "space." Chapter One uses Herbert Marcuse's work to analyze the European space of possibility found in bourgeois culture. The first part of the chapter presents a general overview of Marcuse's thought. Here, I examine: Marcuse's "humanistic" reading of Marx, as found in "The Foundations of Historical Materialism"; the difference between Marcuse's interpretation of Marx and the "standard" mechanistic reading, including a discussion of Marcuse's criticisms of reductionist use of the base and superstructure model of historical materialism; and Marcuse's analysis of the revolutionary status of the proletariat under twentieth century conditions. The second part of Chapter One uses Marcuse's article "The Affirmative Character of Culture" to provide an account of bourgeois culture. This article, which describes affirmative culture as simultaneously regressive and progressive, provides the general framework for the entire dissertation. Chapter One ends with a discussion of One-Dimensional Man, where Marcuse provides his most detailed analysis of post-War culture. Here, I ask if there is a "refuge of hope" even in what is usually considered Marcuse's most pessimistic work. Chapter Two presents the nineteenth century American space of possibility, the frontier. I begin with Frederick Jackson Turner's and Jean de Crevècore's analyses of the American frontier as constitutive of the American character. Then, I move to a study of the material and ideological conditions underlying the culture of the frontier: the enclosure of the commons and the Protestant work ethic. Next, I ask if Marcuse can provide an analysis of American culture as distinct from European culture, and ask if we may consider Marcuse an "American philosopher." The chapter ends by considering the work of Paul Goodman, who provides an alternative understanding of American possibility, from the point of view of a native inculcated from birth with an American worldview. Chapter Three examines the central twentieth century American space of possibility, the counterculture. The first two parts of this chapter provide general histories of the American New Left of the 1960s and 1970s and the American counterculture of the same period. Here, I focus on how these movements interacted and how they were responding to similar experiences of alienation. Then I examine the primary material basis for both movements, which I take to be post-War economic expansion. The final two sections of Chapter Three attempt an interpretation of the American counterculture and the New Left through the use of Marcuse's aesthetic theory. The "Conclusion" restates the general argument of the dissertation, now with all of the details in place, examines two other reactions to alienation, political rollback and religious revivalism, asks what spaces of possibility may be emerging in the twenty-first century, and proposes some avenues for further research.
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Bos, Petrus Lucian Johannes. "Crisis management in a crowded humanitarian space : the politics of hosting refugee influxes /." [S.l.] : The Swedish national defence college, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40079192v.
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Fleming, Teresa Apple. "The Convent: A Place of Refuge in Les Misérables and Histoire de ma vie." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97590.
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In the nineteenth century, amidst the rise of anti-Catholicism in the Western world, narratives served as a persuasive medium to influence the reading public. Anti-clerical sentiment was conveyed in various forms of text, often depicting the Catholic convent as a place of sinister confinement. This thesis offers an alternative representation of the French nineteenth-century convent. Considering the prevailing social, economic, and political environment in France, along with the conception of social space, I argue that the convent represents a place of sanctuary and opportunity for some women and girls. Further, in view of Victor Hugo's Les Mis�rables, I examine the representation of the convent as a place for rebirth. Likewise, in analyzing George Sand's autobiography Histoire de ma vie, I explore the representation of the convent as a haven for reviving creativity. Thus, by close reading and critical examination of these literary representations, I contend that the nineteenth-century convent can provide a place of refuge.Master of Arts
Following the French Revolution of 1789, two opposing ideologies gathered momentum in France: monasticism and anti-clericalism. Beginning in 1815, enlistment of nuns in religious congregations doubled every fifteen years until the end of the century. During this period, anti-clericalism remained a potent political and social force. As with any institution of power, narratives served as a persuasive medium to influence the reading public. Anti-clerical sentiment was conveyed in various forms of text, often depicting the Catholic convent as a place of sinister confinement. These diverse depictions of the convent as a nefarious enclosure seem to contradict the growth and appeal of female religious orders during the epoch. This thesis offers an alternative representation of the French nineteenth-century convent. Partially owing to prevailing social, economic, and political structures that limited women's opportunities, convents attracted women from middle- or upper-class families who desired to serve in the public domains of healthcare and education. Considering this environment in France, along with the conception of social space, I argue that the convent represents a place of sanctuary and opportunity for some women and girls. Further, in view of Victor Hugo's Les Mis�rables, I examine the representation of the convent as a place for rebirth. Likewise, in analyzing George Sand's autobiography Histoire de ma vie, I explore the representation of the convent as a haven for reviving creativity. Thus, by close reading and critical examination of these literary representations, I contend that the nineteenth-century convent can provide a place of refuge.
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Martin, Staci BokHee. "Co-Creating Spaces of Critical Hope through the Use of a Psychosocial Peace Building Education Course in Higher Education in Protracted Refugee Context: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4236.
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An unprecedented 65.6 million persons are forcibly displaced (e.g., refugees, asylum-seekers, IDPs). Half are youth. Hope is often the feeling that sustains youth through intolerable conditions. Basic education in protracted areas is seen as a protective factor that nurtures hope and psychosocial wellbeing in the lives of children and youth. This research sought to extend this concept to the higher education in protracted refugee context, where refugees (ages 18-35) were able to co-create spaces of hope that recognized their own agency and their ability to question the status quo while developing critical thinking skills. Based on a theoretical framework of the philosophy of hope, psychology of hope, pedagogy of hope, and critical hope, I explored with refugees their perceptions of hope before, during, and after their participation of my psychosocial peace-building education course over a period of six months. Using a pragmatic mixed-methods community-based action approach, I collected: 31 Hope Index of Staats surveys (pre, post, and a follow-up six months later), eight semi-structured interviews (two interviews and then a follow up six months later for each participant), student reflection journals, and researcher field notes. A thematic analysis revealed four themes: Reflecting on critical hope and critical despair; reconciling identities; resurfacing narratives and creating new narratives of hope; and restoring hope and agency in higher education. By nurturing hopeful views and co-creating opportunities for critical thinking skills, refugees seem to be able to continue to play a pivotal role in rebuilding a stronger, just, and peaceful civil society.
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Lyytinen, Eveliina. "Spaces of trust and mistrust : Congolese refugees, institutions and protection in Kampala, Uganda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bfe1f36a-6a8d-4d89-a6e6-05b0d7bbab4c.
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The spatiality of refugee protection has been a key issue for humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers, and it has become of increasing concern in academic studies. This study interrogates the policy and practice-oriented concept of ‘protection space’ in regard to the experiences of the Congolese refugees in the city of Kampala, Uganda. My analysis of ‘protection space’ uses the geographical concepts of the ‘right to the city’ and ‘sense of place’ to emphasise the physical, imagined, lived and relational understandings of urban space. I also investigate the conceptual links between ‘protection’, ‘space’ and ‘trust’. I apply a qualitative case-study approach in this study and collected primary data from individual Congolese refugees, refugee communities and officers of the protection institutions. The data-collection methods included a combination of semi-structured interviews, observation and focus group discussions, supported by visual methods. I rely on aspects of discourse analysis to analyse my textual and visual data. I conclude that the Congolese refugees informing this study conceptualised ‘protection’ not only legally, physically and relationally, but also spiritually. The geographical levels of protection and insecurity that refugees experienced varied: their ‘sense of place’ in relation to the city of exile depended on their micro-, meso-, and macro-scale experiences and perceptions of protection. Given the prevalence of generalised and particularised social mistrust and institutional mistrust – two matters that were intertwined in refugees’ discourses of their everyday urban life – it is concluded that the distinction between protection and insecurity was at times unclear. Refugees, however, found a sense of protection from various ‘communities of trust’, even though their community life was also characterised by struggles over their ‘right to the city’ and inter-community mistrust.
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Nancarrow, Cindy. "Bound to the borders: Representing refugees in the Australian space." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72792/4/Cindy_Nancarrow_Thesis.pdf.
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This project consists of a novel and an exegesis that explore the use of fiction to counter negative hegemonic representations of refugees in Australia. The possibilities of using Australian spaces, including border spaces, to reveal tensions surrounding refugee belonging and to highlight the reconfiguration of border sites in the Australian imaginary, is a particular focus of this work.
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Mahoudeau, Alex. "The cables and the power : mobilising space, mobilising for space in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Beirut, Lebanon (2014-2017)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-cables-and-the-power-mobilising-space-mobilising-for-space-in-the-palestinian-refugee-camps-of-beirut-lebanon-20142017(29949d02-7374-4ee6-8042-1cc1f400ef8e).html.
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Politics in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon have been studied through a number of perspective, mostly focusing on the relation to national liberation and collective memory. The politics of materiality in the camps, and especially the urban issues, have also received some interest from research, especially after the Lebanese Civil War, but little has been said around the forms of mobilisations surrounding these issues. Relying on an interdisciplinary work situated between human geography and social movement theory, this thesis proposes to look at these questions to explore the ways in which the politics of the refugee camps have evolved in the post-Civil War period. The thesis explores the spatial structuration of the camps, defining the camps’ space as a dimension of the social, with effects on it. Drawing on the pragmatic turn in sociology, the thesis proposes a pluralist model to interaction in the camps, describing several spatially-located grammars of interactions the camp-dweller the camp-dwellers can mobilise in public interactions. These grammars of interaction structure activities of framing social problems and situations in the camps, and explain disputes on a category of spatialised social problems, the “problems of the camps”. For local activists, politicising around these problems is a way to approach politics in other ways than the “partisan” framework. With attention to their spatial anchoring, the thesis then described a number of organisations, paying attention to the resources, discourses, and modes of proof they rely on to make their actions in the camps acceptable and impose their social representations. The situations of conflict with the alleged authorities in the camps and the mundane work of these organisations are described. Finally, the effects of these phenomena on space are seen, showing how space is imbued with new meanings as these mobilisations unfold. Space is therefore seen as a factor as much as a result of social interaction.
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Castillo, Steven Anthony. "Construction of a formal methodology to refine a spares suite using TIGER." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26947.
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This thesis proposes a method for setting inventory levels for a suite of spares for a ship subsystem. The method extends the one proposed by Judge and Leutjen which uses a computer simulation model called TIGER to modify the levels of shipboard spare parts determinated by a sparing model. By combining TIGER and the Availability Centered Inventory Model (ACIM), one of the coordinated shipboard allowance list (COSAL) models currently used in the U.S. Navy, our method is able to achieve the same level of operational availability for ship systems at less cost. Keywords: Inventory control; Theses; Simulation; Spares; Operational availability; Reliability. (jhd)
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Zonke, Gcobani. "The role of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in the upkeep and management of open spaces in Zwide Township." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1018657.
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This paper is an investigation into the role of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (NMBMM) in the up-keep and management of open spaces, in Zwide Township. The study examines the manner in which the legislative framework for waste management is being implemented as prescribed in legislative directives. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996), envisions the transformation of the local government system. Subsequently, policy frameworks and principles have been developed to support the new vision of local government. The Batho Pele Principles and the white paper were passed in March 1998. Both documents spelt out the implementation of the principle and the framework in which the local government system should operate as set out in the developmental local government concept. The developmental local government system’s core ethos lies in working with local citizenry to find ways of meeting their needs, thereby improving their quality of life. It also makes provision for public participation. Ward councillors and ward committees are an indispensable backbone of community participation. It is assumed in this study that a number of environmental, social, economic and health challenges are associated with waste disposal in open spaces. Such hazards range from health risks to the abuse of open spaces by antisocial individuals and groups. The situation is exacerbated by poor implementation of constitutional and legislative directives regarding waste management and disposal to ensure a humane and environmentally friendly atmosphere. The research assumes that the problem cannot be overcome by the NMBMM alone. Well-orchestrated community awareness education programmes such as projects like “trash is cash “and innovative ways of managing waste, including waste recycling, need to be drawn upon. The strategic placement of waste stations and the timeous collection of waste could improve the situation. The observation is that the level of service delivery varies within residential areas and in socioeconomic strata. The previously disadvantaged areas seem to have borne the brunt in terms of poor waste management services until now. The municipality has been accustomed to a situation whereby it removes the waste on an ad hoc basis in selected areas in the townships. The situation is exacerbated by little foresight into the ever growing population, specifically amongst the lower socioeconomic sector of the population. As a result, the ecology and environment is impacted in a negative way. Amidst the challenges of dumping in open spaces, a sense of determination appears within the community to want to prevent the situation; to illustrate: There is an organized group of youths who have cleaned up open spaces at along Qeqe Street in Zwide. They developed a car wash bay as a venture to generate an income. The Green Township Movement is another scheme which is mobilising the community, street by street, to keep their neighbourhood environmentally clean and green. Potentially, the Waste Management Directorate could collaborate with these groupings to halt waste dumping in open spaces. In so doing they could contribute to establishing an environmentally friendly neighbourhood. The NMBMM needs therefore to take advantage of the situation and reengineer its waste management strategy, policies and directives and augment the initiatives that the community have taken upon themselves. The study will endeavour to ultimately advise on viable strategies in an attempt to unravel barriers that have been identified, while simultaneously addressing the challenges to improving the quality of life in the township. This will be done by analysing a legislative framework and thereafter replicating the best practice used locally, nationally and internationally.. It also seeks to associate with individuals within local government in addition to groups that are like minded in combating the concern. The existing environmental regulations and the present economic situation are sound starting points. Together they present an opportunity to change the prevailing attitudes towards recycling. Finally, a number of conclusions that were arrived at during the study will be followed by recommendations. These will be based on the literature review and observations.
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Shalabi, Samir. "City Margins and Exclusionary Space in Contemporary Egypt : An Urban Ethnography of a Syrian Refugee Community in a Remote Low-Income Cairo Neighborhood." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159720.
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Drawing mainly on Lefebvre’s, Soja’s and Smith’s theorizations of space in order to understand the spatial dynamics of social inequality, this study investigates how a low-income Syrian refugee community negotiates its precarious location in a neighborhood on the periphery of one of Cairo’s desert ‘New Towns’. It also examines the way in which urban spatiality shapes the everyday lived reality of this particular community of Syrians. Through an ethnographic focus, I explore how Syrian people living in Cairo are marginalized through broader processes of neoliberal capitalist development which in turn give rise to socio-spatial disparities within cityspace. By developing the concept of socio-spatial exclusion imbued with defiant (hyper)locality, I argue that although these Syrian refugees lack access to transportation and other types of social services, they nevertheless manage to disrupt the spatial status-quo by devising creative solutions to problems concerning amenity availability in the neighborhood where they live. The investigation of these urban trajectories are guided by the notion that spatiality is at once a social product as well as a force in shaping social life. Research for this project draws on multiple sources, including conversations with neighborhood residents, interviews with NGOs and Cairo-based specialists on refugees and urban development, as well as ethnographic observation, an online questionnaire, satellite imagery and social media content.
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Lake, Adam, and Adam Lake. "Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union: The Formation of New Social Networks, Integration, and Activity Spaces." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12436.
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From 1976 to 2000, an estimated three quarters of a million Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union immigrated to the United States. These refugees were welcomed by both volunteers and professional aid workers from the American Jewish community who provided food, shelter, and a helping hand in establishing a new life in a new place. Social capital accumulated through membership in a global Jewish identity, both for Soviet and American Jews, provided the foundation for this aid. The shift in identity from #8220;American#8221; or #8220;Russian#8221; to #8220;Jewish & rdquol that provided the initial transnational social capital was largely the result of the efforts of the Soviet Jewish Freedom Movement, centered in Cleveland and New York City. Additionally, the descendants of Soviet Jewish refugees appear to be assimilating with native-born populations. Through interviews with Soviet Jewish refugees and other key participants, this dissertation examines the role of place in the shifting identities of Soviet Jewish refugees living in Cleveland. From the evidence gathered through this case study and building on the work of Bourdieu and Lefebvre, this dissertation culminates in the development of a new model of Scalar Assimilation that allows for identity shifts and assimilation processes to simultaneously operate at multiple scales with a variety of outcomes.
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Moore, Paul 1962. "The Analysis of PCDD and PCDF Emissions from the Cofiring of Densified Refuse Derived Fuel and Coal." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330690/.
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The United States leads the world in per capita production of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), generating approximately 200 million tons per year. By 2000 A.D. the US EPA predicts a 20% rise in these numbers. Currently the major strategies of MSW disposal are (i) landfill and (ii) incineration. The amount of landfill space in the US is on a rapid decline. There are -10,000 landfill sites in the country, of which only 65-70% are still in use. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) predicts an 80% landfill closure rate in the next 20 years. The development of a viable energy resource from MSW, in the form of densified Refuse Derived Fuel (dRDF), provides solutions to the problems of MSW generation and fossil fuel depletions. Every 2 tons of MSW yields approximately 1 ton of dRDF. Each ton of dRDF has an energy equivalent of more than two barrels of oil. At current production rates the US is "throwing away" over 200,000,000 barrels of oil a year. In order to be considered a truly viable product dRDF must be extensively studied; in terms of it's cost of production, it's combustion properties, and it's potential for environmental pollution. In 1987 a research team from the University of North Texas, in conjunction with the US DOE and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), cofired over 550 tons of dRDF and bdRDF with a high sulfur Kentucky coal in a boiler at ANL. This work examines the emission rates of polychlorinated dioxins (PCDDs) and furans (PCDFs) during the combustion of the dRDF, bdRDF, and coal. Even at levels of 50% by Btu content of dRDF in the fuel feedstock, emission rates of PCDDs and PCDFs were below detection limits. The dRDF is shown to be an environmentally acceptable product, which could help resolve one of the major social and environmental problems facing this country today.
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Maraqa, Hania Nabil. "Palestinians; From Village Peasants to Camp Refugees: Analogies and Disparities in the Social Use of Space." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190208.
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This study compares the social use of space in the Palestinian village around the beginning of the 20th century to that in the Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan around them beginning of the 21st century. It examines the transformation from small-scale egalitarian social practices in the village of Deir Ghassanah to external discourses controlled by large-scale institutional powers in al-Baq a Refugee Camp. It analyzes the ways through which refugees have been able to reinvent their village life after being forcefully relocated in spaces that may not respond to their ritual practices and integrative social system but created by external institutions. Transformations in leadership structure, ownership patterns, and religiosity in both cases will be traced to establish a dialectical framework between the symbolic interpretation and social use of the two spaces.
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Svenstrup, Grant Anne. "Engaging with Diversity in Hospitable Spaces : A Study on Lived Experiences of Community Theatrewith Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Leeds." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45699.
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An emphasis in political debates and much print media in the United Kingdom (UK) on perceived issues with ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has contributed to a narrative of worry and fear. Despite such hostile discourse, people find ways of living together with diversity every day. The encounters which I am concerned with in the following degree project are taking place through community theatre with Mafwa Theatre in Leeds where women from asylum seeker, refugee, and wider communities are socialising and cooperating over fun and simple drama activities. The purpose of this thesis is to better understand the different participants’ lived experiences of the theatre space, how they view their role in the group, and how they perceive diversity in the group. The research questions are explored with qualitative research methods of individual interviews with Mafwa members, the facilitators, and a volunteer, participant observation during the weekly drama sessions, and document analysis of printed, online, and audio materials. With this degree project, I aim to contribute to the discussion about everyday multiculturalism and living with diversity in the UK. The theoretical framework consists of the concept of hospitality which helps me explore how hospitable spaces are shaped and negotiated by different contributors, and conviviality which embraces the complexity of social relations without romanticising them and can help us reach a better understanding of how to live together without a fear for each other’s differences. The findings show that the different participants view the drama group as a hospitable community of acceptance and respect within a hostile environment for asylum seekers and refugees at the national level. The space offers a well-needed opportunity for the women to have fun, develop their creative skills, and escape day-to-day concerns. Moreover, the study shows that besides being proud co-producers of artistic practice, all participants are also active co-creators of shaping the hospitable space and a ‘convivial culture’. Finally, despite misunderstandings and disagreements in the group, the participants express having bonded over similarities and learned from differences rather than describing diversity as something to fear.
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Scott, Bethany. "How do we address the European refugee crisis through employment and integration in an urban environment? : What architectural tactics can we use to support legal and illegal networks within a city?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171732.
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A refugee faces many issues on their journey to safety, but the issues do not end once they reach a host country. Applying for asylum is an arduous process with long waiting times in most European countries, and a low acceptance rate. Lack of integration into a new community is one of the main issues faced during this time. Studies show that labour market opportunities are a successful tool to aid integration and help to close the employment gap between native residents and new arrivals. The employment gap exists due to lack of local language, employment connections, transference of existing skills, legal issues, and personal and health issues. This paper argues that early commencement of language learning, transference of qualifications and picking up the necessary new skills for employment, is a positive way to use the long waiting time to benefit asylum seekers. It is also important to support newly accepted refugees during their integration into the community. Reflecting on organisations and networks that currently exist for refugees, a new civic space is proposed in the city to improve the integration of users through labour market training and opportunities. Looking at the legislations in place for integration and existing pathways to residency, an example is shown of how it can be manipulated to encourage involvement in the labour market.
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Schartel, Tyler Evan. "Quantifying and manipulating spatiotemporal trends in rodent space use and consumption rates on incidentally encountered prey." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/625.
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Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in predator activity can generate and influence the availability of refugia to prey. In eastern forests, white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus) are abundant generalist rodents, and large-scale removal experiments have confirmed they are important predators of gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) pupae and songbird nests and eggs. Models predict the extinction of gypsy moth populations when confronted with abundant mouse populations, but small-scale (10s of m) heterogeneity in rodent activity may allow for the persistence of moth populations. I quantified the magnitude, variability, temporal persistence, and spatial structure of white-footed mouse and eastern chipmunk activity, and evaluated the effects of small-scale (30 x 30 m "spots") rodent removal, on 3 pairs of oak-dominated plots for 3, 2-week periods in summers 2008 and 2009 at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA. Small-mammal track activity (1/check) was best fit by a beta-binomial distribution, and the mean and CV ranges of mouse and chipmunk track activity were similar between years. Disattenuated correlations of mouse and chipmunk activity were similar between sampling periods, as well as between years. I found little evidence of spatial structure in rodent activity at the scales sampled (15-250 m). Mean local track activity counterintuitively increased in removal spots compared to control spots for mice in 2008 and chipmunks in 2009. Local, between-year track activity was more strongly correlated and of greater magnitude in persistent removal spots than in non-persistent removal spots for both mice and chipmunks Environmental factors like abundant alternative food sources can influence predator foraging behavior by concentrating predator space use and altering predation rates on incidental prey items. However, the spatial scale of this aggregative effect, and impact on consumption rates on incidental prey items, are not well understood. In spring 2010, I conducted live-trapping, measured local rodent track activity, and quantified consumption rates on two incidental prey items (almonds [Prunus dulcis] and maple [Acer saccharum] seeds) on 6 plots provided with 3 supplemental food treatments (control, corn, and sunflower seeds) at Touch of Nature Environmental Center, Carbondale, IL, USA. A half-normal, cosine detectability function best fit our live-trapping data in both pre- and post-experiment trapping sessions, but considerable support remained for other models. Overall mean track activity was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments. I found a significant interaction effect of treatment and distance, and significantly increased activity in control treatments at distances of 0, 10, and 40 m. Overall mean almond and maple seed consumption was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments, but was greater in corn than sunflower treatments and increased from period 1 to period 3 at all distances. Mean almond consumption by mouse only and mouse + unknown predator groups was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments. Mean maple seed consumption by mouse only and mouse + unknown predator groups was greater in control treatments than in sunflower and corn treatments.
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AGUIAR, CAROLINA MOULIN. "THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REFUGEES AND THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES: FROM THE MORAL SPACE OF THE STATE TO THE INDIVIDUAL BETWEEN SOVEREIGNS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6670@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOA dissertação analisa o processo de construção social do Refugiado em dois momentos históricos específicos da segunda metade do século XX: entre 1945- 1954 e no pós-Guerra Fria. O objetivo central é mostrar como as práticas discursivas relativas ao Refugiado são informadas pelas estruturas constitucionais da sociedade internacional e pelas crenças e valores fundamentais que definem os critérios de legitimidade da ação estatal. Procura evidenciar o caráter contingente e variável da definição do Refugiado em dois contextos de transformação da ordem internacional. A pesquisa parte da abordagem construtivista, assentada na proposta de Reus-Smit (1999) e de Onuf (1989), na tentativa de fornecer uma explicação mais adequada dos processos sociais de constituição do Refugiado na moderna sociedade de Estados, enfatizando o papel das organizações internacionais, em especial do Alto Comissariado das Nações Unidas para os Refugiados (ACNUR). Neste sentido, ressalta a importância da territorialidade e do imaginário espacial enquanto critérios centrais para a delimitação dos fenômenos migratórios forçados, critérios esses tensionados a partir da década de noventa.
The dissertation s main purpose is to analyze the process of social construction of the Refugee in two specific historical moments in the second half of the twentieth century: from 1945 to 1954 and after the end of the Cold War. The main goal is to demonstrate how discursive practices related to the refugee are informed by the constitutional structures of international society and by the fundamental values and beliefs that legitimate state action. It also aims at showing the contingent and changing nature of the refugee definition in contexts of profound transformations in international orders. The research is based on a constructivist approach, mainly in Reus-Smit (1999) and Onuf s (1989) frameworks, in an attempt to provide a more adequate understanding of the social processes constitutive of the refugee in the modern society of States, highlighting the role of international organizations, in particular the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In that sense, it gives emphasis to the primary importance attached to territoriality and the spatial imagery as fundamental criteria to establishing the limits of forced international migration, a criteria that has faced great challenges since the nineties.
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Martin, Heidi. "Recollections and representations the negotiation of gendered identities and 'safe spaces' in the lives of LGBTI refugees in Cape Town, South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3592.
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Jerome, Kristine P. "Social and spatial relations in the production of social order: A case of the women's refuge." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36762/1/36762_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explores the way social and spatial relations produce social order. It does this through an examination of the women's refuge. The women's refuge is a particularly appropriate case to examine this relationship. While many other social institutions share the purpose of transforming populations, the refuge intensifies this process. This is because the refuge is about producing 'independent women' in a setting that is not purpose built, within a period of three months. Thus, the process of transformation is intensified socially, because it is compressed temporally and spatially. This thesis proposes a conceptual framework that is informed by Bourdieu and the theorists of 'the interaction order' - Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks - and a case study using a number of qualitative methods to investigate this process. It does this by comparing the way the notions of 'independence', 'empowerment' and 'home' are embedded in daily practices of three examples of the refuge, in operation in urban Southeast Queensland. This provides a means to formulate a comprehensive picture about the production of the 'refuge culture', and the social and spatial relations that construct social order in this kind of social organisation.
There are two reasons why this kind of investigation is important. Firstly, this investigation makes a substantive contribution to the study of the women's refuge. Existing literature about the women's refuge does not clearly describe the way this social world is produced and the way 'independent women' are constructed. This study does this by examining the social and spatial relations of this setting and the rhetoric that accompanies it. Furthermore, this case study examines three different refuge models in order to understand the way social order is produced and how social and spatial relations contribute to this process. This provides an opportunity to explore different versions of 'independence' and explain why one refuge model is more likely to produce 'independent women' in keeping with feminist rationale.
Secondly, conceptually and methodologically, the contribution of this thesis is made possible by exploring the relevance of concepts proposed by Bourdieu to the issues of social and spatial relations and the way they construct social order. These concepts are operationalised and applied to theories of 'the interaction order' - proposed by Goffman, Garfinkel and Sacks - in order to understand the women's refuge. This research approach offers a framework to capture the everyday experience of the refuge by focusing on the way social actors sustain daily action. The methods used to do this are participant observation, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews. The application of this method of social inquiry means that it is possible to comprehend the process of transformation, the way this is operationalised on a daily basis, and the set of relations that produce the ordered social world of the refuge. Furthermore, the application of this method of social inquiry provides a way to further comprehend the mechanisms that produce social order in social institutions intent on transforming populations in transition.
This investigation makes substantive theoretical and methodological contributions to the disciplines of sociology and design. In relation to the sociological study of social organisations, this study demonstrates the importance of using a particular method of social inquiry to uncover the relationship between social and spatial orders in the construction of social order. In relation to design, this investigation demonstrates the way spatial organisation is intertwined with aspects of social and cultural organisation. Collectively, the findings presented in this study demonstrate the reflexive relationship between social and spatial orders and the construction of social institutions. This is managed by describing the relationships that produce the social institution of the women's refuge and the way these facilitate the transformation of a population in transition. This study concludes by discussing the significance of these findings in relation to theories and policies about the refuge, and the benefit of future research of this kind in the investigation of social organisations intent on producing transformation.
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Dahlback, Filippa. "Tackling the Silent Epidemic : Examining Safe Spaces as part of SGBV work in the Humanitarian response to Venezuela." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-454236.
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Humanitarian interventions increasingly use safe spaces as part of their work on SGBV prevention, mitigation and response. Therefore, this thesis examines how safe spaces have affected refugee women in the regional response to the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. The method is a literature review analysing reports, news articles and guidelines. The analysis uses the concepts of empowerment and gendered conflict theory for a deeper understanding of what consequences safe spaces have on refugee women in terms of empowerment and strengthened role in society. The analysis shows that safe spaces are integrated with other sectors and have enabled creation of regional standardization and cross-border protection. Response plans incorporate empowerment as a central aspect with awareness-raising, community outreach, economic empowerment, social support and community resilience key components. It also showed an increased need of safe spaces at unofficial border crossings and that gender stereotypes continue to place women at risk in Venezuela and countries of destination.
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Johansson, Lena. "The In-Betweens of Space and Time in Transit : Spatial and temporal realities for urban refugees in Eastleigh, Nairobi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354371.
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This is a study on how Somali and Oromo refugees manage under uncertain circumstances in Eastleigh, Nairobi. Fleeing from war, persecution and violence, the refugees expected to find protection and a quick transfer to a third country, which was not the case. Instead, they ended up in being stuck, unsafe, and questioned. The refugees aimed for resettlement to a third country; a decision depending on approval from the hosting state, a receiving state, and UNHCR. This process normally included 8-10 years or more of waiting and a positive answer was not guaranteed. The spatial realities in displacement in Eastleigh included a status of illegitimacy, socioeconomic hardships, and unpredictability of an eventual resettlement in a third country. In the protracted waiting for resettlement they struggle to become part of the place but in the state of transit, and in an excluding context, they are in-between – in a liminal state in both space and time.
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Beattie, Ebba. "“The mother was incredibly brave” : Comparing representations of refugee women from Syria in national and local Swedish newspapers through content analysis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43354.
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During the so-called ‘migration crisis’ of 2015, 51,338 Syrians applied for asylum in Sweden. First, Swedish politicians called for Swedes to ‘open their hearts’, public support was strong, and media coverage was full of possibilities and humanizing images. As the crisis developed, Sweden’s generous asylum legislation switched to the EU minimum, the political climate toughened and media’s positive frames soon shifted to discussing negative consequences. This degree project focuses on those least visible in the media’s representation of the migration crisis – refugee women. By using Chouliaraki and Zaborowski’s (2017) model ‘voice by narrative’, it answers the research question; How are refugee women from Syria represented in national and local Swedish newspapers?, as well as the following sub-questions: What news frames are used in texts where Syrian women are featured? In what ways are refugee women given visibility and space to speak? What types of representations, wording, and stereotypes are used? What differences can be found between 2015 and 2020, national and local newspapers? The project examines news frames, gendered representations, typical stereotypes, visibility, and space given to Syrian women in Swedish newspapers. It does so by content analysis of newspaper articles from three newspapers published in 2015 and 2020. The project uses theories of othering, intersectionality, and post-colonial power structures as well as literature on representations in European media during the migration crisis to understand representations, voice, and news frames in Swedish newspapers. The results indicated that refugee women are often silenced and spoken of instead of given space to speak. The most commonly used news frames among the analyzed texts were negative geopolitical and women were often decontextualized. Victimization and normalization were the most commonly used stereotypes assigned to refugee women. The majority of representations of refugee women were collective and the women were in many ways othered. Refugee women are othered, decontextualized, silenced, and collectivized, which will have its consequences as they are methods that limit refugee women’s status and position in society – maintaining their position as ‘others’ in Swedish society.
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Benouaich, Abigail. "Bring Light to Gaza. An exploration of solar and ecologically-sensitive light programs for the Deir al-Balah refugee camp." Thesis, KTH, Ljusdesign, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280044.
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In Gaza, daily blackouts have lasted for over eleven years. Until recently, Palestinian families have received only four hours of power each day. Since Israel’s withdrawal from the region in 2005, the political discourse around the Right of Return has forced refugees to live in terrible conditions and darkness. The fear was that any transformation of the camps will bring about an integration of the refugee community with the local environment and thus any improvements to Gaza’s infrastructure and housing was seen as a direct erosion of the Right of Return. Can bringing light to Gaza transcend this boundary of temporality and restore hope to this impoverished community? With recent solar lighting ideas emerging to help solve Gaza’s energy shortage by solar energy companies such as SunBox and LittleSun, I plan to develop a solar urban lighting project for Gaza’s smallest refugee camp - Deir al-Balah (DEB) - to help improve security at night for residents and provide the community with opportunities to socialise in public common areas. In response to an ‘Improvement Plan’ conducted by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 2017, which identifies DEB camp’s limited access to electricity and street lighting, I’d like to explore how a solar and ecologically-sensitive lighting programs can improve Gazan’s daily lives, by bringing clean, reliable and affordable energy access.
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Rozītis, Juris. "Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-607.
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In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. This study examines those Latvian novels, written outside Latvia after the Second World War, which depict the realities of the early years of exile. The aim of the study is to describe the image of the world of exile as depicted in these novels. Borrowing from Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, images relating to time and space in these novels are examined in order to discern a mental topography of exile common to all these novels - a chronotope of exile. The novels are read as part of a collective narrative, produced by a particular social group in unordinary historical circumstances. The novels are regarded as this social group’s common perception of its own experience of this historical reality. The early years of exile fall into two distinct periods: first, the period of flight from Latvia and life in and around the Displaced Persons camps of postwar Germany; second, the early years of settling in a new country of residence after emigration from Germany. A model of the perceived world is constructed in order to compare these two periods, as well as their divergence from a standard perception of oneself in the world. This model consists of various time-spaces radiating concentrically out from the individual – ranging from the physically and psychologically near-lying time-spaces of one’s personal and intimate life, through everyday social time-spaces, as well as formal societal time-spaces, to the more distant abstract and conceptual perceptions of one’s place in the universe. Basic human concepts such as home, family, work, intimate relationships, social administration, and most notably the homeland – Latvia – are plotted at various points within these models. Divergences between the models describing the perception of time and space in the two early periods of exile thus become apparent.
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Schmidt, Jason M. "Adaptive Foraging in a Generalist Predator: Implications of Habitat Structure, Density, Prey Availability and Nutrients." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1312815757.
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Denaro, Chiara. "Limiti e confini del diritto di asilo nel Mediterraneo. Etnografia di alcuni percorsi di fuga dalla Siria." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457720.
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Nel contesto della fuga dei cittadini Siriani verso la regione del Medio Oriente e
Nord Africa e verso l’Europa tra il 2013 e il 2016, questa ricerca avvia una
riflessione sul contenuto del diritto di asilo in tre spazi di frontiera del Sud
Europa (Lesbo, Sicilia e Melilla) al fine di far luce sui suoi contorni variabili. A
partire dall’analisi della riconfigurazione dello spazio Mediterraneo nel post-
2011, sia come regime migratorio che come spazio politico, la ricerca si focalizza
sul tema del diritto di asilo mettendo al centro della riflessione il concetto di
accesso: accesso al territorio di un paese (ritenuto) sicuro, accesso alla
procedura di riconoscimento dell’asilo, e accesso alla prima accoglienza. Inoltre,
la ricerca analizza l’agency e la voce dei rifugiati siriani durante i loro percorsi
migratori, al fine di contribuire a una migliore comprensione di alcuni fenomeni
inediti di cui essi sono stati protagonisti. Tra questi, il più rilevante è costituito
dalla sfida alle prescrizioni imposte dal Regolamento Dublino, che ha preso
forma in diverse località di frontiera attraverso vari tipi di interazione con (nuovi
e vecchi) attori e, in alcuni casi, attraverso veri e propri atti di resistenza, volti a
proseguire il viaggio verso i paesi del centro e nord Europa, spesso immaginati
come destinazioni finali.
Attraverso un’etnografia multi-situata e tramite un approccio comparativo la
ricerca esplora i meccanismi attraverso i quali l’agency dei rifugiati si è
sviluppata riuscendo talvolta a prevalere su alcune strutture sociali, quali quelle
costitutive dei regimi confinari e di governo dei fenomeni migratori. Inoltre essa
analizza i contenuti fondamentali della voce dei rifugiati, emersa sia nelle
narrazioni riguardo i viaggi verso e attraverso l’Europa che in specifici atti di
cittadinanza. Nelle voci dei rifugiati, la percezione di sé quali esseri umani,
dunque titolari di specifici diritti fondamentali emerge come dominante e
promuove l’interpretazione dei loro percorsi di agency e resistenza come
risposte razionali all’attuale processo di svuotamento del diritto di asilo. I
movimenti secondari dei rifugiati sono infine ipotizzati come tentativi di
rivitalizzare tale diritto, attraverso il suo riempimento con il miglior contenuto
possibile.In the frame of the Syrian citizens’ flight to the MENA region and to Europe between 2013 and 2016, this research reflects on the very content of the right to asylum in three border zones of Southern Europe (Lesvos, Sicily and Melilla) in order to shed light on its variable contours. Starting by an analysis of the reconfiguration of the Mediterranean space in the post-2011, both as migration regime and political space, the research path focuses to the right to asylum issue by putting the question of access at the core: access to the territory of a (supposed to be) safe country, access to the asylum procedure, and access to first reception. Moreover it examines the agency and voice of Syrian refugees during their journeys in order to promote a better understanding of certain inedited social phenomena of which they have been protagonists. The most relevant was the challenge of the prescriptions imposed by the Dublin Regulation, which took shape through various kinds of interactions with (old and new) stakeholders, and in some cases through acts of resistance, aimed at pursuing their journeys to Central the Northern European countries, generally imagined as final destinations. Through a multi-sited ethnography and a comparative approach the research attempted to explore the mechanisms through which refugees’ agency has developed and the main contents of their voice by showing how they have been able to call into question certain social structures, such as those embodied by migration and border regimes. In refugees’ narratives concerning their “ to and throughout Europe, their self-representation as human beings, who are entitled of specific fundamental rights as such, emerges as dominant and foster an interpretation of their paths of agency and resistance as rational answers to the current emptying process of the right to asylum. In other words, their secondary movements appear as attempts to revitalize the right to asylum, by filling it with the better possible content.
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El, Khouri Dima. "Négocier l’espace : les villes du Liban devant l’afflux des réfugiés syriens (2011-2018) : études de cas à Tripoli (quartier de Tebbeneh) et à Beyrouth (quartier de El-Nab’a et camp Palestinien de Bourj El-Barajneh)." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMC010/document.
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Recevoir en trois ans un afflux de migrants correspondant à un quart de sa population constitue un défi majeur pour n’importe quelle nation. Cette recherche tente de comprendre comment un tel phénomène, à priori inconcevable, a pu advenir dans les villes du Liban, qui ont accueilli plus d’un million de réfugiés depuis 2011. Partant de ce phénomène brutal, elle examine les facteurs qui ont permis à ces réfugiés urbains de s'installer tant bien que mal dans des espaces marqués par des processus extrêmes d'injustices socio-spatiales. La thèse aborde cette question à trois niveaux : (1 ) à l’échelle urbaine locale, où citadins et réfugiés vivent un cycle continu de négociations dissymétriques concernant l’occupation et l’appropriation de leurs espaces respectifs, reflété dans des situations quotidiennes de tension et de conflit ; (2) au niveau national, dans lequel la géopolitique interne à la société libanaise et les effets de l’action publique du gouvernement, des collectivités territoriales et des ONG prennent un rôle direct, influençant l’accès des réfugiés à la ville ; (3) à l’échelle géopolitique internationale enfin, qui aborde la situation du Moyen-Orient. À cette échelle, l’analyse s’attache aux effets des relations historiques entre le Liban et la Syrie dans l’installation actuelle des réfugiés. Cependant, l’espace de négociation n’est pas exclusivement perçu comme le résultat d’une relation binaire entre réfugiés et société d’accueil. Plus largement, la thèse démontre comment cette relation s’insère dans des mécanismes qui produisent et reproduisent des inégalités exprimées à des échelles multiples et qui opèrent sur l’ensemble des populations citadines, que ces dernières soient d’origines syriennes, palestiniennes, qu’elles appartiennent aux différentes communautés religieuses libanaises ou qu’elles soient originaires de pays étrangers. L’étude repose sur une approche ethnographique qualitative faisant appel à diverses méthodes, particulièrement des entretiens approfondis auprès d’échantillons de population très divers. Ceux-ci sont accompagnés d’observations systématiques menées dans trois quartiers urbains : Tebbeneh à Tripoli, El-Nab’a et le camp palestinien de Bourj el-Barajneh à BeyrouthIt is a major challenge for any nation to accommodate an influx of migrants corresponding to a quarter of its population in three years. This research seeks to understand how such a phenomenon, inconceivable at first glance, could have taken place in cities in Lebanon that have hosted over a million refugees from Syria since 2011. With this brutal phenomenon as a starting point, the thesis examines the factors that have made it possible for the urban refugees to settle in places marked by extreme processes of socio-spatial injustice. The thesis addresses this issue at three levels: (1 ) at the local urban scale, within which urban dwellers and refugees live a continuous cycle of dissymmetrical negotiations on the occupation and appropriation of their respective spaces, reflected in daily situations of tension and conflict; (2) at the national level, within which the internal geopolitics and the effects of government, local authority, and NGO actions play a direct role in influencing the access of refugees to the city; (3) finally at the international geopolitical scale which addresses the situation of the Middle East. At this scale, the analysis focuses on the effects of historical relations between Lebanon and Syria in the current settlement of refugees. Negotiating space is not seen as the result of an exclusively binary relationship between refugees and the host society. Rather, the thesis demonstrates how this relationship fits into mechanisms that produce and reproduce inequalities expressed on multiple scales, and touch all urban dwellers - whether they are originally Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese from different religious groups, or even from a foreign country. The study is based on a qualitative ethnographic approach using a variety of methods, particularly in-depth interviews with diverse population samples. These are accompanied by systematic observations in three urban neighbourhoods: Tebbeneh in Tripoli, El-Nab'a and the Palestinian camp of Bourj el-Barajneh in Beirut
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Thers, Alain. "Les autels religieux, analyseurs des dynamiques subjectives dans les processus d'interculturation chez les migrants vietnamiens : une approche en psychologie interculturelle." Thesis, Bordeaux 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR21925/document.
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Notre présence de 1990 à 2010 en qualité d’éducateur spécialisé sur Beaubreuil, quartier de la ville de Limoges, Haute-Vienne, nous a permis d’accompagner, d’observer et de prendre part pendant plus de vingt années aux processus migratoires vietnamiens. Durant tout ce temps nous avons pu constater d’un point de vue psychologique que les ruptures consécutives à l’exil, puis au choc culturel né du contact avec la société d’accueil, ont fait surgir chez les individus des problématiques complexes, notamment identitaires. Dans l’exil, pour faire face aux risques psychosociaux provoqués par l’instabilité de leur structure psychique et de leur système culturel, les vietnamiens ont investi l’espace public et l’espace privé proposés par la culture d’accueil. Ces démarches, multiples, leur ont permis dans le réaménagement de ces espaces, de retrouver, de recréer, les éléments perçus par eux comme fondamentaux de leur culture d’origine, nécessaires et indispensables au travail de rééquilibrage psychique. En France, l’injonction culturelle vietnamienne d’élaboration d’autels religieux au sein de leurs habitations a conduit les personnes à réinterpréter, au sein de dynamiques subjectives, la question des différentes composantes de leur identité, personnelle et sociale, culturelle et religieuse. Les interactions entre l’injonction de la culture d’origine et l’espace proposé par la culture d’accueil ont conduit les sujets à engager des transformations, des modifications dans l’élaboration de leurs autels religieux. En ce sens ces élaborations rendent compte et constituent des analyseurs particulièrement pertinents des processus d’interculturationOur presence from 1990 to 2010 as a social worker in Beaubreuil, district of the city of Limoges, Haute-Vienne, allowed us to support, observe and take part for over twenty years in the Vietnamese migration processes. All this time, we noted from a psychological perspective, that ruptures, resulting from the exile, then from the culture shock, were born by contacts with the host society, have given rise to individuals, complex problems including identity ones. In exile, to face the psychosocial risks caused by the instability of their psychic structure and their cultural system, the Vietnamese have invested public and private areas offered by the host culture. These approaches, multiple, allowed them in the redevelopment of these areas, to find, to recreate the elements perceived by them as fundamental in their native culture, necessary and essential to their work of psychic restructuring. In France, the cultural injunction of religious altars development in the private sphere has led them to reinterpret in a subjective way the question of the different components of their identity personal and social, cultural and religious The interactions between the native culture injunction and the space proposed by the host culture has engaged transformations, changes in the elaboration of religious altars. In that way, they are reflecting and are forming analyzers, particularly relevant to us, the intercultural exchange process
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Marcus, Asher. "City of refuge." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21479.
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Ko, Chia-Chun, and 柯嘉鈞. "Comparative Study of Prospect-Refuge Context on Different Landscape Spaces." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90484862798042542394.
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Based upon the concept of “seeing without being seen”, Appleton (1975) proposed the prospect-refuge theory (P-R theory) which was extensively used as an explanation why people prefer certain types of landscape or an information variable to predict preference by landscape researchers. Although there are some applied researches related to the P-R theory, there still needs further examination about the rationality of P-R theory to assist in validly defining the degree of prospect and refuge in landscape design. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to review the P-R theory as well as to reexamine and compare the P-R context on different landscape spaces, a natural setting and a Chinese garden, in the viewpoint of experience. To achieve the study purpose, the study adopted a qualitative oriented research method. The study used the technique of visitor employed photography (VEP) to obtain the required data (e.g., preference, the reasons why he/she prefers, experience in the setting,…etc.) from observers both in a natural environment and a Chinese garden. In-depth interviews were implemented after observers had taken all the preferred photos in his/her own will. The qualitative software of Altlas.ti was used to analyze the data. The study redefined the prospect and refuge frameworks which Appleton proposed. Moreover the results indicated that in both settings, the qualitative data from the in-depth interviews and the photos that observers shot brought up several points regarding the relationship between preference of scenes and prospect and refuge properties. In natural environment, the scenes belong to the property of vista reflected a high preference frequency and hold an extended feature. The scenes with secondary prospect configurations aroused observers’ explorative thought as well as the scenes with secondary refuge symbolism hold attractions for observers such as the buildings, shadow, or cave. In Chinese garden setting, the extended scenes belong to the prospect property reflected a high preference frequency. Furthermore, observers preferred the scenes with properties of shelters or hides belonged to refuge concept and felt to be protected. Overall to say, the study employed VEP technique and qualitative method to explore and compare the prospect and refuge context on different landscape spaces. The results of the study act as the foundation to form a practical guidance in creating a preferred environment with prospect and refuge properties which can be provided for landscape design and tourism and recreation resource investigation and planning. According to the results of the study, moreover, quantitative study can be undertaken to find out the preference of certain settings with different P-R ration in the future.
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Yen, Mei-chien, and 顏美鉛. "Multiple Criteria Evaluation Framework of Military Bases as Refuge Spaces-A Case Study in Taichung City." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96165815455113219154.
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The refuge cite is indispensable to a city rescue system and is also the victims’ depending on when the calamity occurred. Reviewing Taiwan’s great earthquake calamities, windstorm disasters in the past, the military often played a very important role on rescue or restore of the disaster placing and reconstructing at the initial stage, and now, to assist the rescue system is already a normal duty for the military. The author built up the evaluated model of the refuge function on the military bases, and hope to map out the barrack’s shelter space effectively, and to achieve a good rescue function and decrease the effect of a disaster. In this paper, the author studied and built the assessment mechanism and weight of the disaster rescue and refuge function on the military bases by referring the relevant research documents and past disaster analysis cases, and using the AHP and GIS space analysis method. After collecting and evaluating from the strategic decision of twenty-one experts who are belong to four research areas, we found the “Water Storage” of the “Survival equipment” is the most important of the six evaluated items (Bases characteristic, etc.) and twenty-five evaluated criterions (effective shelter space, etc.). The actual example analysis of the Taichung City, ignoring the eight small standard deviation (≦0.2) factors (Signal communication facility, etc) which did not influence the evaluation result, show the best five bases almost have the facilities of food and drink, sleeping quarter(bedding and pillow), washroom and toilet, also larger shelter space and good communications and transportation, and that’s why they got the higher score. Go through from the result of this evaluated model and the analysis of the real example, we not only can know well the function of the facility and the nearby disaster rescue and shelter space resource on the military bases, and the analytic result of the importance of the evaluated principle also can use to be the reference for the shelter barrack selecting and the city refuge space planning in the future. Also, we can base on the requirements of the different area or different disaster phenomenon to decide the related evaluated factors, and we can choice and evaluate the barrack quickly, and that will be helpful for the disaster rescue mission of our government.
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Kikano, Faten. "Hostipitalité, pouvoir et appropriation de l’espace dans l’habitat des réfugiés : le cas des réfugiés syriens au Liban." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25510.
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Avec 80 millions de personnes déracinées à travers le monde, les espaces de refuge sont en train d’émerger comme les transformations urbaines les plus visibles des temps modernes. Ces espaces, dont la fonction première est d’abriter temporairement, servent souvent d’habitat pour les réfugiés pendant des décennies. Cependant, les États hôtes, majoritairement des pays en développement, persistent à accueillir les réfugiés selon des politiques à court-terme. Cet écart génère plusieurs tensions mais se manifeste explicitement dans la conception temporaire des espaces de refuge. Sur le plan théorique, alors que les migrations sont largement documentées, des connaissances limitées existent sur la reproduction de chez-soi. Les théories qui portent sur les espaces de refuge se concentrent surtout sur des enjeux géopolitiques et anthropologiques, négligeant l’espace en soi. Pauvres en nuances, elles classent ces espaces selon des conceptualisations dichotomiques souvent déconnectées du vécu des réfugiés.
Cette recherche propose une nouvelle lecture des espaces de refuge à travers les lentilles du pouvoir, de la culture et de l’espace. Elle étudie l’appropriation de ces espaces en se basant sur l’exploration des pratiques sociales, économiques et politiques des réfugiés, de leurs interventions sur l’espace et du lien qu’ils développent avec leurs nouveaux environnements de vie. Elle révèle également l’influence des approches adoptées par la communauté internationale, les gouvernements d’accueil, les organismes humanitaires et les communautés hôtes.
L’étude est qualitative exploratoire et adopte la méthode de l’étude de cas multiples. Cette approche permet d’acquérir une compréhension approfondie des perceptions des réfugiés des contextes sociopolitiques et économiques qui caractérisent leur vécu d’une part et de leurs représentations de l’espace d’autre part. Trois typologies d’habitat — deux habitations urbaines, deux campements informels et deux camps organisés — sont étudiées afin d’évaluer l’importance du type de l’espace par rapport à son appropriation. L’étude adopte l’ethnographie comme approche méthodologique complémentaire, dévoilant l’évolution des conditions de vie des réfugiés et la transformation de leurs espaces.
Le cas à l’étude est celui des réfugiés syriens au Liban. Submergé par le nombre de réfugiés sur son territoire, le plus grand par nombre d’habitants au monde, le Liban exclut les réfugiés syriens des systèmes institutionnels, économiques et urbains dans le but de réduire leur accès au territoire, de limiter la durée de leur séjour et de prévenir la consolidation matérielle et immatérielle de leurs espaces. Toutefois, huit ans après, les stratégies adoptées par le gouvernement libanais se sont avérées infructueuses : le nombre des réfugiés syriens accueillis est sensiblement le même et leurs espaces se sont pour la plupart ghettoïsés.
La thèse propose cinq résultats principaux : 1) l’enjeux central dans l’appropriation des espaces de refuge est un ensemble de géométries de pouvoirs politique, économique et social ; 2) la gouvernance faible de l’État d’accueil fragmente les systèmes traditionnels et permet l’émergence de structures de pouvoir informelles qui contrôlent les réfugiés et leurs espaces ; 3) l’exclusion des réfugiés exacerbe leur vulnérabilité et l’organise au profit de parties prenantes locales influentes. Elle réduit leurs chances d’émigrer et mène souvent à la ghettoïsation de leurs espaces ; 4) la typologie des espaces n’est pas centrale par rapport à leur appropriation ; 5) l’enracinement de l’identité dans le lieu d’origine est une idée basée sur des considérations politiques anti-migratoires. Les espaces de refuges évoluent, selon les opportunités et les défis dans le milieu d’accueil, suivant un continuum entre non-lieux temporaires et lieux de vie socioculturels.
En transcendant leur marginalisation et leur homogénéisation, cette recherche dévoile la réalité intime des espaces de refuge. Elle montre que souvent, ils deviennent des chez-soi, lieux de vie quotidiens qui abritent des individus qui forment des groupes sociaux culturellement distincts et économiquement hiérarchisés.
D’un point de vue théorique, elle montre que l’accueil des réfugiés est souvent basé sur l’hostipitalité, une hospitalité hostile qui vulnérabilise les réfugiés et facilite leur exploitation. Elle révèle que l’appropriation des espaces de refuge augmente proportionnellement avec l’inclusion institutionnelle et l’autonomisation socioéconomique des réfugiés, concourant à la reproductibilité rhizomique de leur identité individuelle et collective. D'un point de vue pratique, cette recherche démontre que, sous prétexte de raccourcir la durée de l’accueil des réfugiés, les politiques d’accueil sont en réalité adoptées dans l’intérêt économique et politique d’acteurs étatiques et privés. Dans le but d’atteindre une meilleure justice spatiale, elle recommande aux gouvernements d’accueil un changement de paradigme à travers l’adoption de stratégies plus inclusives à l’égard des réfugiés menant à leur autogestion et leur développement et d’approches adaptées à l’usage et à la durée de leurs espaces.With 80 million people uprooted around the world, refuge spaces are coming to be the most visible urban transformations of modern times. These spaces, whose primary function is to shelter, often accommodate refugees for decades. Yet, host states, mostly developing countries, continue to host refugees without adopting comprehensive, long-term strategies for their integration, causing acute political, socio-economic, and humanitarian problems. The lack of a long-term solution is explicitly revealed by the conceptions of refugee spaces, often designed as temporary solutions. From a theoretical perspective, while social scientists and geographers have widely documented the geopolitical and anthropological aspects of forced migrations, they have neglected the concept of space appropriation and the production of place identity in refugee spaces. Indeed, their classification of space/place is often based on dichotomous conceptualizations and differs from refugees’ real-life experience. This research examines refugee spaces through the lenses of power, culture, and space. It provides new evidence on the appropriation of these spaces through refugees’ social, economic, and political practices, their interventions on space, and their perceptions of their new living environment. It also examines the impact of the strategies adopted by the international community, host governments, humanitarian organizations, and local communities. The research method is qualitative and exploratory; it is based on a multiple case study design. This methodological approach provides an in-depth understanding of refugees' perceptions on the socio-political environment undergirding displacement and on their representations of space. Three space typologies — urban dwellings, informal settlements, and organized camps — are studied with the purpose of assessing the relevance of the space-type in relation to its appropriation. The study uses ethnography as a complementary methodological approach, shedding light on the evolution of refugees’ living conditions over time and the transformation of their spaces from a cultural standpoint. It specifically focuses on Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a country which hosts the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Overwhelmed by the number of refugees hosted, Lebanon excludes Syrian refugees from formal legal, economic, and urban systems, limiting their access to the territory, reducing the duration of their stay, and preventing the tangible and intangible consolidation of their living spaces. Yet, eight years later, the strategies adopted by the Lebanese government have proven unsuccessful: the number of Syrian refugees is roughly the same as at the beginning of the conflict and most of their spaces have been ghettoized. Results show that: 1) complex geometries of political, economic, and social powers determine the appropriation of refugee spaces; 2) weak state authority fragments traditional governance systems which leads to the emergence of informal power structures that control refugees and their spaces; 3) refugees’ exclusion exacerbates their vulnerability, while benefitting local stakeholders, subsequently reducing their chances of emigration and leading to the ghettoization of their living spaces; 4) the typology of spaces is not a major variable in relation to their appropriation; 5) the rooting of identity in the place of origin is an idea based on anti-migration political viewpoints; refugee spaces can evolve along a continuum between temporary non-places and socio-cultural places of life depending on the opportunities and challenges in the host context. Transcending the stigmatization, marginalization, and homogenization of refugee spaces, this research reveals the intimate reality of these spaces. It shows that they often become places of everyday life for refugees who form culturally dissimilar and economically hierarchical social groups. From a theoretical point of view, this research shows that hosting policies are often based on hostipitality, or a hostile form of hospitality which exacerbate refugees’ vulnerability and facilitates their exploitation. It shows that refugees’ appropriation and control of their living spaces increase proportionally with their legal inclusion and their socio-economic empowerment by the host state, inciting the rhizomic reproducibility of their individual and collective identity in their new habitat. From a practical point of view, the research shows that hosting policies adopted on the pretext of shortening the duration of refugees’ settlement are in fact in the interest of state and private actors. With the purpose of achieving spatial justice, the study recommends a change of paradigm in refugee policies with approaches that are more inclusive towards refugees leading to their self-management and their development, and adapted to the use and duration of their living spaces.
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Alrashidi, Raghad. "THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY: FOR REFUGEES." 2019. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/755.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explore the different aspects of therapeutic architecture through the design of a therapeutic community for refugees who suffer from PTSD. To understand a therapeutic space a depth of understanding of what space, atmosphere and stimulation of senses is explored through the effects of light, shadow, and color psychology. The methodology exploration studies different lighting strategies and massing models to understand the relationship and aura of the space being designed.
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Wilson, Robert Michael. "Seeking refuge : making space for migratory waterfowl and wetlands along the Pacific flyway." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15102.
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"Seeking Refuge" examines the history of migratory waterfowl management along the Pacific Flyway, the westernmost of four main migration routes in North America. Drawing on approaches from historical geography and environmental history, this study shows how wildlife officials developed migratory bird refuges in Oregon and California, where over 60 percent of Pacific Flyway waterfowl winter. During the early-twentieth century, reclamation and river diking eliminated most of the wetlands in the birds' wintering range. Bird enthusiasts such as bird watchers and duck hunters successfully lobbied for the creation of wildlife refuges in a few areas along the flyway. These early refuges failed to protect waterfowl habitat and they were severely degraded by reclamation. In the 1930s and 1940s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and its predecessor, the Bureau of Biological Survey, undertook an ambitious program to resurrect these sanctuaries and to create new ones. Many farmers opposed these refuges out of fear that waterfowl would damage crops. To respond to these concerns and to ensure an adequate food supply for the birds, the FWS raised rice, barley, and other crops. The agency adopted many of the technologies of modern, industrial agriculture including synthetic herbicides and insecticides such as 2, 4-D and DDT. By the 1960s, the refuges had become largely mirrors of the surrounding irrigated farmlands, the main difference being that the FWS raised grain for waterfowl rather than for market. Refuges could not escape the agricultural settings in which they were embedded. As units within the irrigated countryside, Pacific Flyway refuges were often at the mercy of nearby farmers and federal reclamation agencies. Poor water quality and insufficient supplies of water often hampered FWS efforts to manage refuges. In the late-twentieth century, reduced water supply due to diversions to California municipalities and to sustain endangered fish species affected the amount of water reaching refuges. This dissertation has other goals. First, it critiques the anthropocentrism of most historical geography by focusing on how political, cultural, and ecological factors affected wildlife. Second, it contributes to the literature on the state's role in environmental protection by investigating the overlapping, and often contradictory, spaces within which wildlife managers implemented environmental regulations.
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周芳如. "A study on planning of disasters-rescuing and refuge space from the urban flood." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50847214558372458486.
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Curtis, Faith. "Performing care with people from refugee backgrounds: an intersectional exploration of spaces of care and care-full encounters in Newcastle, Australia." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342369.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Research on the experiences of people from refugee backgrounds in Western nations has been dominated by inquiries into social exclusion and problematic encounters across difference. As a body of work, it tends to document despair and provides little evidence of ‘the hope residing in cities’ (R Fincher & Iveson, 2012, p. 240). Yet, many people from refugee backgrounds are welcomed by people taking individual or collective steps to foster social inclusion. The overall aim of this research is to bring a more hopeful disposition to research on people from refugee backgrounds by employing literatures on care, spaces of care and encounter to examine caring people and organisations. This thesis explores caring relationships, care practices, spaces of care and care-based encounters with people from refugee backgrounds in Newcastle, Australia. I draw on Conradson’s (2003c) framing of care as ‘a movement towards another person in a way that has the potential to facilitate or promote their well-being’ (Conradson, 2003, p. 508) and the principles of Tronto’s (1993) practice of the ethic of care, to offer a critical and hopeful analysis of grounded experiences of giving and receiving care initiated by organisations which support people from refugee backgrounds. I draw on the literature on encounter to explore the possibilities that arise in fleshy and fun care-full encounters with people from refugee backgrounds. In order to apprehend the messy and complex ways that care is performed, I draw on case studies of four organisations working with people from refugee backgrounds in Newcastle, NSW using a range of methods including interviews, document analysis and participant observation. In contrast to existing spaces of care and encounter research, I immerse myself in formal and informal spaces of care. In doing so I offer new insights into the importance of hanging out and spending time with people as a way of comprehending what happens in spaces of care and care-full encounters. This research examines the complexities of what it means to care within an organisational framework. The role of an organisational ethos in the performance of care is explored in Chapter 6. As other research on spaces of care has found, an organisational ethos is not simply set by mission statements; it is performed by people working within organisational spaces (P Cloke, Johnsen, & May, 2005). Unlike most care literature, this thesis draws on the experiences of both care givers and care receivers and offers insights into the inseparability of care giving and receiving. Previous research has emphasised that in many institutional care-giving contexts people from refugee backgrounds are called upon to perform a refugee identity – a subject position that enables them to access services, care and support, but that at the same time has precarious and limiting effects on their agency (P. Westoby & Ingamells, 2010). To explore the inseparability of care giving and receiving and performances from refugees beyond the refugee identity, I turn to caring practices of welcoming and teaching which have been absent from previous academic accounts of the experiences of people from refugee backgrounds in Western nations. In the organisational spaces I examine, I reveal that welcoming and teaching are not practices reserved for ‘host’ populations; rather, people from refugee backgrounds also perform care through welcoming and teaching. Drawing on literature on intersectionality, I reveal that in an appropriate organisational context the binary between refugee/non-refugee or care giver/care receiver can be transcended as people build on shared identities as mothers, friends, cooks, football players and people. In Chapter 7 I build on the existing spaces of care literature to reveal the importance of space in the performance of care. Like previous spaces of care literature, I explore formal institutionalised spaces, but I also contribute to the spaces of care literature by exploring spaces of protest in support of people from refugee backgrounds, and the ways that public parks are transformed into transitory spaces of care. The performances in these spaces extend beyond formal and professionalised interactions, and reflect a recognition on the part of people already living in Newcastle that it is not up to people from refugee backgrounds alone to adjust to difference; rather, it is also up to longer-term residents to perform more inclusive caring spaces and neighbourhoods. The chapter therefore examines how spaces of care encourage performances of belonging, home and hope across multiple scales of home, neighbourhood and nation. Finally, I explore caring with people from refugee backgrounds through the lens of encounter. My approach to care-full encounters is to move away from thinking that ‘meaningful’ encounters are only those that can be scaled up (Valentine, 2008). Rather, I place value in the embodied, fleshy and sensuous moments of encounter, and in doing so, I am able to reveal moments of joy, happiness and hope that are too often dismissed in the encounter literature. These moments are important because they are full of potential and the possibility of a different way of doing Australia in an extremely intolerant time. Care is not simple and easy. Caring relationships can be fraught with tensions and difficulties. Nonetheless, this thesis argues that exploring existing practices of care holds the possibility for understanding new ways of living together with difference and creating more inclusive cities. While previous literature has mostly focused on the ways that the presence of people from refugee backgrounds in Western nations seems to have created insecurities that undermine individuals’ capacity to care, this thesis avoids adopting an approach that is primarily attuned to exclusionary practices. Rather than giving a voice to the people who want to incense and create more hate, this thesis contributes to a more hopeful disposition by focusing on examples in which people demonstrate a readiness to stand up against intolerance through proactive performances of care. As people from refugee backgrounds continue to seek protection in the West, providing a caring narrative that counters the exclusionary attitudes towards their presence is essential for performing more caring and inclusive worlds.
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Pelissero, Amy E. "Transgressing the Borders: Text and Talk in a Refugee Women's Book Club." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/mse_diss/30.
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The prevailing discourses around refugees often serve to position them as ignorant, incapable, and needing to be assimilated into the dominant culture of receiving societies. The limited research devoted to refugees shows that they struggle in schools and on standardized tests of achievement, are underemployed, and live in poverty. Refugee women, in particular, often contend with multiple linguistic, gendered, and racialized forms of discrimination, as they navigate transnational spaces and lives in resettlement. However, this qualitative study sought to counter deficit discourses around refugee women in resettlement by critically investigating and illuminating their everyday lives and literacy practices. The participants were nine refugee women, aged 16 to 31, who engaged in an out-of-school book club over a six-month period.
Sociocultural, dialogic, poststructural, feminist, and transnational theories informed this study. Critical ethnographic approaches and New Literacy Studies perspectives influenced the research process and data gathering. Qualitative data were collected from audio and video recordings of book club meetings, meeting transcripts, and researcher field notes. The data were analyzed using qualitative coding and narrative methods.
The themes identified from the analysis were that participants (1) shaped and used the book club as a dialogic, border practice and space; (2) navigated and negotiated shifting and changing subjectivities and took up multi/plural identities; (3) used multiple languages and literacies as practices and resources; and (4) were living here-and-there, transnational and dialogic lives. The findings suggest that educators can foster refugee women’s English language learning and multiple literacies in three key ways: by creating learning spaces that are flexible, contingent, dialogic, and collaborative; by recognizing students’ sociocultural contexts and funds of knowledge; and by affording opportunities for students to position themselves as knowers and teachers.
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Kouki, Safa. "Against oblivion : narrating the refugee camps in contemporary literary works in english." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25566.
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Ma thèse entreprend une évaluation critique et un compte rendu de ce que j'appelle la «littérature des camps de réfugiés» en tant que produit culturel et genre littéraire et interdisciplinaire en soi. Sur le plan de la taxonomie, l’appellation «littératuredes camps de réfugiés» risque de se retrouver dans le discours très homogénéisant, qui fusionne les différents récits de la vie des réfugiés, qu’il vise à contrebalancer. Le fait de classer les récits sélectionnés comme un genre littéraire révèle le caractère insaisissable d’une telle entreprise car les récits eux-mêmes oscillent entre différents genres (écrits de vie humanitaire, témoignages, bildungsroman postcoloniaux, etc.) et qu’un tel genre est, compte tenu de son contexte politique, plutôt transgressif. Face à un tel risque, il est nécessaire de reconceptualiser la vision de la «responsabilité éthique» afin de repenser notre propre position et complicité et de faire place à l’existence de l’Autre qui raconte. Ainsi, tout en regroupant les récits provenant de et sur les camps de réfugiés, la «littérature des camps de réfugiés» rejette souvent l’attribution habituelle d’étiquettes toutes faites telles que «victimes», «sujets jetables» ou «émissaires sans voix» aux réfugiés et dévoile leur engagement politique et leur participation active à (re)façonner leur propre vie.En outre, des aspects thématiques particuliers explorés dans les chapitres permettent une utilisation provisoire du terme «littérature des camps de réfugiés». Ces affinités thématiques comprennent, entre autres, l’aspect de «l’attente», lorsque la vie des réfugiés semble se figer dans le temps, le présent et l'avenir. Une autre caractéristique de la «littérature des camps de réfugiés» est la capacité des réfugiés à se réinventer lorsque le camp devient «un lieu de nouveaux départs» (Simon Turner, 2015, 1). Ainsi, malgré la précarité de la vie,
iiune autre similitude thématique, dans les camps de réfugiés, les habitants des camps de réfugiés font preuve de stratégies de survie qui leur redonnent l’humanité qui leur a presque été retirée par la déshistorisation et la dépolitisation systémiques. La dépolitisation, nous dit Simon Turner, «crée son propre contraire : l’hyper-politisation» (Turner, 7), autre résultat thématique crucial. En conséquence, ma thèse vise à participer à la compréhension du «processus continu par lequel une partie de notre planète commune est aujourd’hui mise en quarantaine» (Michel Agier, 2006:3). Mon intention est d’examiner l’espace spécifique d’où émerge la littérature des camps de réfugiés et comment un tel espace liminal peut affecter des formes et des stratégies spécifiques de narration du soi. À cette fin, mon premier chapitre distingue le roman de Dave Eggers, What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng(2006), de la tradition d'écriture de la vie humanitaire dans laquelle il s’est inscrit. Dans ce chapitre, j’étudie le camp comme un espace géographiquement délimité, exclu/exceptionnel. J’essaie de comprendre la gouvernance humanitaire du camp et son implication politique. Mon deuxième chapitre étudie le roman d’Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun(2006) et son interprétation cinématographique réalisée par Yousry Nasrallah (2004). Ici, je m’éloigne du camp comme espace purement physique limité pour étudier le camp comme un espace où les habitants s’interrogent sur leur existence et résistent à leur réalité confinée et à leur capacité acquise de se réinventer à l’infini. Le troisième chapitre propose une nouvelle lecture du roman de Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (2005), car il problématise la différenciation systémique entre la figure du réfugié et celle du migrant. Dans un second temps, il suit la fissure dans le récit (les sections Quy) d’où le réfugié émerge comme une figure excessive.My dissertation undertakes a critical assessment of and accounting for what I call “refugee camp literature” as both a cultural commodity and a literary and interdisciplinary genre on its own terms. Taxonomically, the appellation “refugee camp literature” runs the risk of falling in the very homogenizing discourse, that conflates the different accounts of the lives of the refugees, it is countering. Categorizing the selected narratives as a literary genre discloses the elusiveness of such an endeavor because the narratives themselves oscillate between various genres (Humanitarian life writing, testimonies, postcolonial bildungsroman, etc.) and such a genre is, given its political context, rather transgressive. Facing such a risk, a reconceptualization of one’s view of ‘ethical responsibility’ is needed in order to rethink our own subject-position and complicity and to make room for the Other that narrates to exist. Thus, while grouping narratives from and about refugee camps, “refugee camp literature” often dismisses the mainstream allocation of ready-made labels such as “victims,” “disposable subjects” or “speechless emissaries” to the refugees and unveils their political engagement and active participation in (re)shaping their own lives. Furthermore, particular thematic aspects explored in the chapters allow for a provisional use of the term “refugee camp literature.” These thematic affinities include, inter alia, the aspect of “waiting,” when the lives of the refugees seem to freeze in time, present and future. Another defining feature of the “refugee camp literature” is the refugees’ ability to reinvent themselves as the camp becomes “a place of new beginnings” (Simon Turner, 2015, 1). Thus, despite the precarity of life, another thematic similitude, in the refugee camps, the refugee camp dwellers exhibit survival strategies that grant them back the humanity almost stripped from them through systemic dehistorization and depoliticization. Depoliticization, Simon Turner tells us, “creates its own opposite: hyper-politicization,” (Turner, 7) which is another crucial thematic upshot. Accordingly, iv my dissertation aims at participating in the understanding of the ongoing “process by which a section of our common planet is today being put in quarantine” (Michel Agier, 2006:3). My intent is to look at the specific space from which refugee camp literature emerges and how such a liminal space may affect specific forms and strategies of narrating the self. To this aim, my first chapter distinguishes Dave Eggers’ novel What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006) from the humanitarian life writing tradition it has been inscribed into. In this chapter, I study the camp as a geographically demarcated excluded/exceptional space. I try to understand the humanitarian governance of the camp and its political implication. My second chapter studies Elias Khoury’s novel Gate of the Sun (2006) and its cinematic rendition directed by Yousry Nasrallah (2004). Here, I move a step further from the camp as a purely physical limited space to study the camp as space where the dwellers question their existence and resist their confining reality and their acquired ability to infinitely reinvent themselves. The third chapter offers yet another reading of Dionne Brand’s novel What We All Long For (2005) as it problematizes the systemic differentiation between the figure of the refugee and that of the migrant. Then, it follows the crack in the narrative (the Quy sections) from which the refugee emerges as an excessive figure.
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Vermilyea, Jennifer Rose. "Borders, statelessness, and agency : rethinking political space." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1390.
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The modern state system has a specific answer to the question of where and how political action can occur: in the state and through citizenship. State sovereignty underpins the basic discourse of who belongs and who speaks in political communities, which is said to have important implications for those without claim to citizenship, namely the refugee. Giorgio Agamben‘s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is an important discussion of how the logic of sovereignty produces the refugee in the contemporary international state system. However, I will argue in this paper that this narrative, like many others, eclipses moments of refugee agency and reproduces the refugee in apolitical terms by binging a particular conception of the political to bear. This paper critically engages with the writings of Immanuel Kant and Giorgio Agamben to explore how this discourse of political community (state) and political identity (citizenship) has emerged historically and is continually reinforced. I argue that these narratives fail to see the politicality of so called spaces of abjection which are continually reshaping and reforming perceived understandings of the political.
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Missirian, Anouch. "Space matters: Quantifying ecosystem-mediated externalities." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-c4vj-x803.
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Economic and ecological processes interact with one another over both spatial and temporal dimensions.This dissertation explores four socio-ecological systems where space crucially matters for both economic and ecological outcomes. In the first chapter, a windborne chemical dictates the diffusion in space of a new agricultural technology. The second chapter dissects the notion of landscape complexity to find which of its components matter for the intensity of insect pressure in agriculture, and thus the use of insecticides. In the third chapter, the location of participants in an environmental program seeking to curb deforestation points to additionality problems and anticipates the lack of measurable effects of the program. Knowing where crops are grown and temperatures less well-suited for their thriving is key to identifying in chapter four the effects of weather fluctuations on asylum applications into the European Union. The spatial dimension tends to be hard to apprehend and overlooked, but those four pieces together stress that space matters in the study of sustainable development.
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Peters, Tanya. "Interweaving place: A transitional interior for refugee women and children set in West Broadway, Winnipeg." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22125.
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As the world shifts and changes, so do its people, and every day, more refugees are forced out-of-place, out of their homelands, and into a foreign and unfamiliar context. Many of these refugees are women, single mothers, who along with their children, are set to face many challenges in the process of re-settling into a new cultural landscape.
This project is a study on how the design of an interior can aid in the difficult process of transitioning between lands and cultures. Within it, I explore the making of place through the design of a transitional residence for women and children refugees, set within the dynamic urban landscape of West Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
I proceed through this project through an exploration of four conceptual frameworks and examine the project and its users in relation to movement and migration, to boundaries, to the contact zone, and finally to weaving.
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Moyo, Khangelani. "Zimbabweans in Johannesburg, South Africa: space, movement and spatial identity." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24198.
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Thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Town and Regional Planning)
to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017Focusing on Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this thesis engages the ways in which diverse groups and individuals construct and negotiate spaces in the city. I have looked at how Zimbabwean migrants spatially respond to the regulatory and socio-economic environments within which they lead their everyday lives in Johannesburg. I emphasize the theme of heterogeneity, specifically highlighting the differentiated nature of Zimbabwean immigrants living in South Africa and discuss their movements and spatial identities. Theoretically, I have combined de Certeau's conception of space as represented by the schema of “strategies” of the powerful and the “tactics” of the subordinate with Bourdieu's concept of “habitus”, which operates within a field of social forces that are responsible for, and the result of, its emergence. Following my empirical engagements within the context of Johannesburg, I observe that, the initial decision by Zimbabwean migrants to move to South Africa, be it in search of work opportunities or forced by political circumstances, enable a structure that predisposes them (migrants) to continued mobility. Firstly, as transnational migrants who engage in frequent short term and long term movements between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Secondly, as transient residents of Johannesburg who frequently change residential addresses yet remain largely within the same spaces where they first arrive. Thirdly, as de Certeau's ordinary man who walks the city while engaged in everyday activities such as, shopping, going to places of employment, to places of education, etc. I theorise mobility as a way of making do and an inhabited space that migrants mobilise in contestation with the broader strategic entities such as the City of Johannesburg's regulatory platforms, South African citizens and other migrants. I also argue that, for migrants to engage in different mobility cycles and deploy mobility as a tactical resource, particular dispositions are necessary. I refer to these dispositions as the transnational migrant habitus, which operates within a transnational social field constituted by socio-cultural factors in both South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both, the transnational habitus and the transnational social field are hybrid social formations that are not reducible to either the Zimbabwean or the South African contexts that are responsible for their genesis and ongoing reconstitution. Methodologically, I employed a mixed methods research design, which refers to a procedure by which the researcher mixes two or more methods with different meta-theoretical assumptions in a single study in order to understand a research problem. I used mixed methods because I needed sufficient breadth to explore the diversity of Zimbabwean migrant experiences and spatial decision-making, but also sufficient depth to uncover the reasons for behaviours and decisions.
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Zaleski, Kathryn N. "More than a Classroom: Learners Voices - How should Iskashitaa use our ESL Classes as a Space to Increase Self-Sufficiency, Language Acquisition and as a Bridge to the Community for our Adult Refugee Students?" 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/196869.
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Peace Corps Fellows award for commitment to the communityWhat are Iskashitaa Refugee Harvesting Network’s roles and objectives in teaching English as a Second Language to adult refugees in the Tucson community? How can we create a classroom environment that builds their language acquisition while promoting self-sufficiency? To inquire into these questions, interviews were conducted with adult refugee students who attend the classes, anecdotal records were kept of the ESL teachers’ weekly reflections and classroom observations were performed. Iskashitaa’s ESL classes should provide a space for English language acquisition, assisting in the acculturation process through introducing material that is based on life-skills, with the teachers serving as a cultural broker, advocate and friend and finally, introducing the adult refugees to the community through volunteer activities with Iskashitaa. There is a need for more inquiry and discussion about the pre-literate refugee population, especially in effective teaching strategies, curriculum ideas and a better understanding of literacy practices within the home. These are matters that merit a larger discussion by people who work in education and with refugees, as feedback would be beneficial from all who work with refugees and can recommend what they have observed, experienced and envision to help in the language acquisition, self-sufficiency and acculturation process for refugees.
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Tallio, Virginie. "La fabrique du réfugié: du camp au rapatriement, lieux et processus de la construction du «réfugié». L’exemple des camps de réfugiés de Dadaab (Kenya) et de Nkondo (R.D.C.)." Doctoral thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/3601.
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Nous présentons dans ce travail les éléments qui permettent de constituer à nos yeux la spécificité de la catégorie de « réfugié ». Nous nous basons pour cela sur la monographie de deux camps de réfugiés. Le premier est le camp de Dadaab, qui se situe au Kenya et accueille en grande majorité des réfugiés somaliens. Des Ethiopiens, des Erythréens, des Soudanais et des personnes d’autres nationalités y ont également trouvé refuge. Le deuxième camp est le camp de Nkondo, en République Démocratique du Congo et héberge des personnes ayant fui l’Angola au moment de la reprise des combats en 1998 dans les provinces du Zaïre et de Uige. Tous deux sont gérés par le H.C.R. Nous avons complété ces études par une analyse du processus de rapatriement des réfugiés angolais qui a commencé en juin 2003 pour se terminer officiellement le 27 mars 2007.
Le camp constitue un territoire particulier. Ni ville, ni lieu d’enfermement, il se définit par les pratiques des agents sociaux qui y sont à l’œuvre, c’est-à-dire les réfugiés et les agents des agences humanitaires. Deux dimensions permettent de l’appréhender plus justement : sa temporalité spécifique, c’est-à-dire perçue différemment en fonction du statut de la personne, et sa transterritorialité multiscalaire, nous entendons par là le fait que les agents agissant dans le camp représentent des échelles territoriales différentes. Le territoire du camp permet de définir la catégorie de « réfugié » telle qu’elle est utilisée non seulement par les personnes appartenant à cette catégorie mais aussi par les employés des agences humanitaires. La manière dont cette population est ensuite découpée en groupes pour en faciliter la gestion participe aussi de son interprétation par les acteurs sociaux. Par ailleurs, les documents issus autour de cette catégorie de « réfugié » et qui en prouvent l’appartenance contribuent à former cette catégorie. Ainsi, non seulement cette dernière a une validité « anthropologique », pourrait-on dire, mais également légale puisque les papiers prouvant le passage dans un camp géré par le H.C.R. et délivrés par les agences d’aide permettent d’accéder à des identités parfaitement légales sur le plan juridique. Les observations effectuées autour de la frontière, au moment du rapatriement des réfugiés angolais mais également au cours de la vie quotidienne dans le camp, renforcent l’idée d’une construction de la catégorie de « réfugié » non seulement sur un emplacement précis mais aussi lors du/des déplacement/s.In this work, we present the elements which in our eyes authorize the constitution of the specificity of the category of ‘refugee’. For this, we base ourselves on the monograph of two refugee camps. The first one is camp Dadaab, which is situated in Kenya and mainly hosts Somali refugees. Ethiopians, Eritreans, Sudanese and people from other nationalities also find shelter there. The second one is camp Nkondo, in Democratic Republic of Congo, and mostly hosts people having fled Angola when war broke out again in 1998 in the provinces of Zaire and Uige. Both are managed by U.N.H.R.C., different humanitarian organizations taking in charge the implementation of the infrastructures and the activities as decided by the U.N. agency. We completed these studies by an analysis of the process of repatriation of Angolan refugees which started in June 2003 and officially ended on March 27th 2007. The camp constitutes a particular territory. Neither city nor shutting-in place, it is defined by the practices of the social agents at work, that is the refugees and the agents of the humanitarian organizations. Two dimensions can help understand the camp more precisely: its specific temporality, as perceived differently according to the status of the person, and its multiscalar transterritoriality, referring to the fact that agents at work in the camp represent different territorial scales. The territory of the camp allows us to define the category of “refugee” not only as used by people belonging to this category but also by the employees of the humanitarian agencies. The way the former population is then divided into groups to facilitate its management also participates to its interpretation by social agents. Documents issued in reference to this category of ‘refugee’, and which prove one fits the description, also contribute in the production of this category. The latter therefore not only has “anthropological” validity, but it also has a legal dimension since the papers proving the passage in a U.N.H.C.R camp and issued by aid agencies enable access to completely legal identities on the juridical plan. Observations made around the border, during the repatriation of Angolan refugees but also during everyday life in the camp, reinforce the idea of a construction of the category of “refugee” not only in a specific locality yet also during the displacement/s.
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Al-Nassir, Sara. "Constructive Exceptionality: The Interplay of Agency and Structure in Constituting Zaatari's Market Street, Al-Souq." 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34460.
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Due to the Syrian crisis, several refugee camps were opened in Jordan in 2012 in order to deal with the increasing number of those feeling the conflict. Refugee Spaces whether camps or other urban informalities face the challenge of being in a status of “permanent temporariness” during which they develop into unexplored urban (city-like) formations through the social production of space. Taking the case of the Zaatari refugee camp, this research explores the process during which refugee camps turn into cities. More specifically, it questions how the interplay between human agency and structure produces space in the camp; eventually the city. Al-Souq, the main market street in Zaatari, is chosen to conduct the study, employing an explorative approach accompanied with narrative elements to understand actors’ own perspective. The collected data is analysed thematically and performatively to investigate the two former categories and the way they are drawn upon in producing space. The main findings denote a constructive exceptionality that facilitates space creation as well as a consequential inclusion of refugees in the camp. Furthermore, the occurring spatial construction of Al-Souq indicates that refugees are in fact active agents. Therefore, as indicated by both results, the research concludes by offering an alternative conceptualisation to camps and refugees as opposed to the traditional humanitarian perception of them being temporary and aid-dependent victims, respectively.Aufgrund der Syrienkrise wurden in 2012 mehrere Flüchtlingscamps in Jordanien geöffnet, um der steigenden, von dem Konflikt betroffenen, Anzahl an Menschen zu helfen. Die Lebensräume für Flüchtlinge, egal ob Flüchtlingscamps oder andere Marginalsiedlungen (urban informalities), unterliegen der Herausforderung in einem „permanenten Zwischenzustand“ (permanent temporariness) zu verbleiben. Innerhalb dieser Zeit entwickeln sich diese Räume durch soziale Raumproduktion (social production of space) in unerforschte urbane (stadtähnliche) Gebiete. Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit wird der Prozess, innerhalb dessen sich Flüchtlingscamps zu stadtähnlichen Räumen entwickeln, beispielhaft am Fall des Flüchtlingscamps Zaatari aufgezeigt. Im Konkreten wird hinterfragt wie das Zusammenspiel menschlichen Handelns und Struktur zur Raumproduktion und schließlich zu stadtähnlichen Gebilden führt. Al-Souq, die wichtigste Handelsstraße in Zaatari, wird als Studienobjekt herangezogen, um die Wahrnehmungen der Akteure zu beleuchten. Diese Studie folgt einem explorativen Ansatz mit narrativer Analyse. Die erhobenen Daten werden mittels einer thematischen (thematic analysis) und performativen Analyse (performative analysis) ausgewertet, um das Zusammenspiel der zwei genannten Kategorien im Hinblick auf die Raumproduktion zu untersuchen. Die Haupterkenntnisse der Studie zeigen sowohl eine schöpferische Außergewöhnlichkeit welche die Raumproduktion ermöglicht als auch eine daraus folgende Inklusion der Flüchtlinge im Camp durch ein Gefühl der Zugehörigkeit. Ferner zeigt die Auftretende räumliche Konstruktion von Al-Souq, dass Flüchtlinge Handlungsfähigkeit besitzen und herstellen und somit als „active Agents“ verstanden werden können. Aufbauend auf beiden Ergebnissen kann somit geschlussfolgert werden, dass zu der traditionell existierenden Humanitären Perspektive, in der Camps als temporär und Flüchtlinge als hilfebedürftige Opfer gesehen werden, ein alternatives Verständnis zu präferieren ist.
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Brennan, Derek. "Serving Life: Creating Community in a Resort Town." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13328.
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This thesis studies how architecture and planning influence community living through relationships between public spaces, housing, and circulation that focus on
stimulating social activities for the betterment of service industry workers’ way of life. Our built environment can not only connect people to one another or to activities or to places, but it can also isolate people. For the service-based populace of Lake Louise, Alberta, isolation is a recurring factor in various aspects of their lives. The design attempts to establish connections between the people and the community, to eradicate the barriers that fragment the community without neglecting the necessity of refuge for the individual.