Review of Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror Meditations through Migration, Edited by Susanne Korbel and Philipp Strobl, I... by Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani

“…The key question at stake is how refugees deal with ethnic, religious, and cultural affiliations in their target destinations and how they portray knowledge transfer and cultural translations.…”
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New Data concerning the Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Greece by Konstantinos D. Pantazis, Ioannis S. Elefsiniotis, Hero Brokalaki

“…Nevertheless, there are special groups and populations (economical refugees, religious minorities, HIV-positive patients, abroad pregnant women, prostitutes, etc.) who represent sacs of high HBV endemicity and need epidemiological supervision and intervention, in order to limit the spread of the infection and to further improve the existing epidemiological data.…”
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Pictograms as Visual Communication. Tools for the Autonomy and Accessibility of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities by Girish Muzumdar, Asha Deshpande, Ben Howell Davis

“…They can be used by all those who have difficulties reading, such as illiterate persons, tourists, senior citizens, children, refugees, asylum-seekers, etc. Taken together, they can represent up to 30% of the population.…”
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The Conference Fostering Cross-disciplinary Reflections to Bridge Societal Divides (REFLECT), 21st and 23rd of October 2024 by Mădălina Căpraru

“…The conference focused on recent events driving significant social change, such as armed conflicts in Europe, mass migration, and humanitarian crises affecting refugees. The event also addressed ongoing social crises exacerbated by the already fragile state of societies grappling with the pandemic's aftermath. …”
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What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

“…It will further discuss the religious identity of these two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey and how they use their social and religious networks within different congregations and Bahai spiritual assemblies in Turkey to determine destination countries in the transit country and to reach ultimately the West as refugees.…”
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SURİYELİLERİN SOSYO-DEMOGRAFİK ÖZELLİKLERİ İLE SUÇA KARIŞMA ORANLARI ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN İNCELENMESİ: BURDUR İLİ ÖRNEĞİ by Serkan Küçükdoğru

“…In this context, the educational status of Syrian refugees will be evaluated within the scope of primary, secondary and high school, and it will be examined whether it has an effect on the crime profile.…”
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Memorias del exilio de Tere Medina-Navascués: ficción y memorias del exilio español de 1939 en México by Clemencia Corte Velasco

“…The life of the first Spanish refugees in Mexico] by Tere Medina-Navascués. The speech of these memories is presented, on the one hand, under the double modality of narration of experience; on the other hand, under the narration of fictionalized facts. …”
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Engagement militaire et droits politiques des Arméniens : la Légion d’Orient, exemple de négociations entre une nationalité non souveraine et ses Alliés européens by Taline Papazian

“…This body, comprising mainly Armenian refugees from the Ottoman Empire joined by compatriots from abroad, is created to support the conquest of Cilicia where, in agreement with Great Britain and Russia, France intends to constitute a protectorate at the end of the war. …”
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Terre, normes de propriété et litiges à Kaboul by Antonio De Lauri

“…Mass-migration resulting from the war and the influx of returning of refugees has compounded the problems already posed by the lack of effective record-keeping systems and the destruction of official documents. …”
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Literary Geography: Applying Geocriticism in "The Mermaid Madonna" by Stratis Myrivilis by Maria Margariti

“…This novel uses as setting the settlement of Skala Skamnias or Mourias, which is located on Lesvos (an island of Greece in the North-Eastern Aegean Sea) after the Asia Minor Disaster in 1922 and after the arrival of the Greek refugees from Asia Minor to the island. The purpose of the study is to show how Geography is related to Literature and how the author deliberately chose Skala as the setting for his literary work in order to support his new perception of the concept of Greekness, as in his opinion it was formed after 1922.Thus, this article, first presents the Geocritical method and its use in the chosen novel and then applies it to the novel discussing how the author uses the place and time. …”
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International Migrants’ Rights in the UK from the 1998 Human Rights Act to the Big Society Concept by Catherine Puzzo

“…Since the mid-1990s the policies and the legal and regulatory instruments for refugees and asylum seekers have maintained particular groups of migrants in a state of limbo with fewer rights than the rest of the British population. …”
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Immigrant integration in ITI/SUD strategies: The case of Athens, Greece by Nikos Karadimitriou, Thomas Maloutas

“…They focus on innovation, economic growth and social cohesion but rarely mention immigrants and refugees per se. The paper argues that this approach, followed by all four Strategies, is a rather generic feature of the country’s governance modalities, in an ongoing process of Europeanization. …”
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«What the hell am I doin’ here? I don’t belong here!»..L’antropologa nei contesti di asilo/accoglienza tra marginalità, fraintendimenti, negoziazioni e non-intenzionalità. Riflessi... by Silvia Pitzalis

“…Since the so-called ‘migratory crisis’ (2015) in Italy, anthropological interest in extra-academic fields related to the care of asylum seekers and refugees has gained a crucial relevance, igniting intense debates within the discipline. …”
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Immigrant integration in ITI/SUD strategies: The case of Athens, Greece by Nikos Karadimitriou, Thomas Maloutas

“…They focus on innovation, economic growth and social cohesion but rarely mention immigrants and refugees per se. The paper argues that this approach, followed by all four Strategies, is a rather generic feature of the country’s governance modalities, in an ongoing process of Europeanization. …”
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Pietism and War by Krzysztof Gładkowski

“…The context in which Pietism emerged was that of the above-mentioned wars, but also of migrations, which makes Pietism heuristically relevant even today, given the many wars and refugees in situations of political and religious tension. …”
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Routes africaines vers Le Caire et dynamiques chrétiennes plurielles by Julie Picard

“…Migratory trans-Saharan routes to Egypt have become more diversified since the end of the 1990s. Refugees from Sudan and from the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea) are no longer the only ones to be attracted to this country of the Mashreq. …”
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Values at work: a case of labourers in agribusiness (Jordan) by Mauro Van Aken

“…In a context that has been reshaped in the last half a century by conflict and displacement, the peculiar borderland that divides the Jordanian east bank from the Occupied Territories in the West bank, has been transformed due to intensive rural modernisation, a process that has generated new ideas and values of work and of working persons. Palestinian refugees have settled among Jordanian Bedouins, the Ghawarneh tribe and after the 1970s, Egyptian labourers and a smaller Pakistani community and have shaped a context where terms of belonging are daily at work and overlap on the new agribusiness. …”
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The provision of higher- and lower-skilled immigrant labour to the Canadian economy by Garnett Picot, Tahsin Mehdi

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Les Kurdes en Irak : une communauté linguistique qui protège son identité nationale by Nigar Ali Hussein

“…The Kurdish speech community in Iraq, autonomous since 1991, has witnessed an important situation of multilingualism due to the existence of a large number of refugees (more than two million). On the other hand, in spite of the official status of the Kurdish language in Iraq, the Kurds in this country have not yet managed to unify a Kurdish standard language, having the same use in education systems and Kurdish media. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF “THE HOLY SEED” AS A COPING STRATEGY IN EZRA-NEHEMIAH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOUTH AFRICA by N S Cezula

“… In a study describing the problems experienced by former political exiles who have returned to South Africa since 1990, Majodina argues that the psychological study of reintegration of refugees/exiles deserves a place in mainstream psychological research and not remain on the fringes. …”
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