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Internal Displacement
This blog post will provide a brief overview of what it means to be an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) and how this compares to being a...
Krysia Wharton
Mar 152 min read
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Refugee Children
40% of all displaced people are children, despite children making up under 1/3 of the world’s population. There are various reasons for...
Krysia Wharton
Jan 262 min read
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Refugee Health
Health and healthcare can look very different for refugees, in comparison to people who are not displaced, and this blog post will...
Krysia Wharton
Nov 9, 20243 min read
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Promoting Intercultural Understanding in Digital Learning Environments: Empowering Educators with Strategies
INTRODUCTION In a digitalized and interconnected global learning setting, the promotion of diversity, inclusivity, and effective...
Zainab Mahmood
Sep 8, 20244 min read
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The Election, Refugees & Asylum Seekers
On Friday 7th June, leading figures from seven of the main UK political parties debated a variety of issues on live TV that people should...
Krysia Wharton
Jul 2, 20243 min read
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The History of Refugees
This blog post provides a very brief summary of the history of refugees between the early 20th Century and the modern day (a previous...
Krysia Wharton
May 4, 20243 min read
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Refugee Women
Although any person of any gender can be a refugee, this already awful experience can be made even worse simply by being a woman. This...
Krysia Wharton
Mar 2, 20242 min read
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Navigating Multilingualism: Migrant Students' Linguistic and Cultural Identities in the Classroom
Even though migration has been a longstanding historical phenomenon, recent years have witnessed an unparalleled surge in refugees,...
Zainab Mahmood
Jan 3, 20243 min read
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The 1951 Refugee Convention
We have mentioned on a few occasions recently that the 1951 Refugee Convention is often referred to as ‘the cornerstone of refugee...
Krysia Wharton
Nov 4, 20232 min read
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The History of Refugees
This blog post provides a very brief summary of the history of refugees between ancient times and the early 20th Century. It includes...
Krysia Wharton
Sep 16, 20233 min read
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LGBTQI Asylum Seekers and Refugees
On 14th June, we posted about Micro Rainbow, an organisation that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI)...
Krysia Wharton
Aug 5, 20233 min read
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The 75th Anniversary of Windrush
Yesterday marked 75 years since the Empire Windrush ship arrived in Essex. This is one of the earliest and largest examples of people...
Krysia Wharton
Jun 23, 20232 min read
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What do religions teach about refugees?
With 84% of the world’s population identifying as religious (Hackett & McClendon), the teachings of religious texts should naturally have...
Krysia Wharton
Apr 25, 20233 min read
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'My journey started on a boat': Ke Huy Quan at The Oscars
Ke Huy Quan's Speech at the Oscars 2023 At the 95th Academy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles this week, Everything Everywhere All at Once...
RefuNet
Mar 17, 20233 min read
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Refugees from a Holiday Destination?
The Kurds are an ethnic group of people originally from a West Asian territory called Kurdistan which is made up of parts of Turkey,...
Krysia Wharton
Dec 14, 20223 min read
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The People Behind the Numbers: Challenging the Home Secretary's Language.
On Monday, Suella Braverman claimed that people are “pretending [the people who arrive in the UK in small boats] are all refugees in...
Refunet
Nov 3, 20222 min read
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Who is Giorgia Meloni? Italy’s New Far-Right PM and her Stance on Migration.
Giorgia Meloni is the figurehead of a newly elected extreme right-wing government that is vowing to crack down on many forms of...
RefuNet
Oct 21, 20222 min read
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What is our new Prime Minister’s stance on refugees?
On 6th September, Liz Truss became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This means she is in charge of the policy and decisions of the...
Krysia Wharton
Sep 19, 20223 min read
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Understanding Trauma as Experienced by Refugees and Asylum Seekers
‘Trauma refers to the way that some distressing events are so extreme or intense that they overwhelm a person’s ability to cope,...
Krysia Wharton
Jul 22, 20223 min read
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Will the new refugee act spark any changes in Kenya?
Kenya hosts the second largest population of refugees in Africa, with most refugees fleeing from neighbouring countries Somalia and South...
Sorcha
Jun 28, 20224 min read
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