Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19, clinical characteristics: A multi-center observational study from Jordan by Marwan Shalabi, Salam Ghanem, Iyad Al-Ammouri, Amirah Daher, Enas Al-zayadneh, Alaa Alsmadi, Mais Ayyoub, Samah Abughanam, Mariam Jabr, Montaha Al-Iede

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THE DESIRE FOR RECOGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF FRANCIS FUKUYAMA’S UNIVERSAL HISTORY by T. V. Danylova

“…Modern civilization has been facing with an acute problem of growing inequality, serious financial crisis, political havoc and military conflicts, migrants and refugees problem. But so far the idea of liberal democracy has no real competitors.…”
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV and migration in southern Africa: A rapid review by G Musuka, I Chingombe, E Moyo, T Chikava, B Moyo, M Mapingure, H Musuka, T Dzinamarira

“…The review highlighted diverse projects across southern Africa, addressing SRH and HIV among migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Projects ranged from peer-education interventions to community-based referral systems, aiming to improve knowledge, access and outcomes related to SRH and HIV. …”
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Epidemiological Study of Hepatitis B, C and HIV Cases among the Foreigners Visiting Sulaimani City from 2013 Through 2016 by Mohammed Omer Mohammed, Asan Baram Hasan, Fenk Bakir Maarouf

“…An immediate action plan is needed to screen all Syrian refugees in our region for HBV, HCV and HIV to determine active infection and treat accordingly and also impose preventive measures to halt the spread of the infections. …”
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Improving diagnostics and surveillance of malaria among displaced people in Africa by Toufik Abdul-Rahman, Oyinbolaji Akinwande Ajetunmobi, Gafar Babatunde Bamigbade, Innocent Ayesiga, Muhammad Hamza Shah, Tolulope Sharon Rumide, Abdurahman Babatunde Adesina, Ganiyat Adekemi Adeshina, Oluwabusola Elizabeth Oni, Bet-ini Nsikak Christian, Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Andrew Awuah Wireko, Hala Ibrahim Thaalibi, Iman Mustafa Abdalla, Sewar Basheer Banimusa, Justice Ndubuisi Jonathan, Isreal Ayobami Onifade, Md Ariful Haque

“…As a result, the occurrence of malaria is significantly more common among refugees and internally displaced individuals compared to those who are not displaced. …”
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Conflict-associated wounds and burns infected with GLASS pathogens in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A systematic review by Amelia Wild, Clare Shortall, Omar Dewachi, Carine Naim, Alex Green, Sarah Hussain, Aula Abbara

“…Nine of the papers were from Iraq, three from Libya, three from Lebanon, one each from Yemen and Gaza; two reported on conflict affected refugees in Jordan. A total of 1,942 distinct microbiological isolates were reported, representing all four critical and high priority GLASS pathogen categories. …”
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Facing migration under adverse conditions: challenges and resilience in the Colombo-Venezuelan border area by Gloria Omaira Bautista, Axel Kroeger, Nelly Rosero Castillo, Eduardo Gabriel Osorio Sanchez, Dianne Sofía Gonzales Escobar, Rafael Olarte, Sonia Diaz Monsalve

“…Causes and effects on the migrants and receptor populations are varied and often shaped by immigration laws and how migrants and refugees are being dealt with by local conditions, policy frameworks and by the host population (receptors). …”
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Transnational patterns, social networks and self-help organizations for migrant women [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Paolo Ruspini, Petko Hristov

“…The research questions of this comparative assessment include: 1) How do refugee women organize themselves for mutual help? …”
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Accumulare afflizione. Il tempo, la testimonianza e l’indicibile by Barbara Pinelli

“…Through the story of a refugee woman, this article reflects on the interplay between the memory of violence, the structures of time, and the poetics of the expressible and the reticence. …”
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The Spatial Extensions of the Right to Seek Asylum by Melina Philippou

“…Abstract: The spatial extensions of the right to seek asylum is a project to investigate the first response of the European mainland to the humanitarian refugee crisis of 2015 through critical mapping. The site of exploration is the Eastern Mediterranean Route (EMR), a passage expanding from Greece to Germany through the Balkans, used for many years as an entry path into Europe. …”
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Refleksje nad zastosowaniem korczakowskich metod partycypacyjnej pracy z dziećmi w obozach dla uchodźców by Urszula Markowska-Manista, Dominika Zakrzewska-Olędzka

“… The aim of the article is to outline the specifics of places and spaces – refugee camps and centers, where children constitute the majority. …”
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Ce qui aurait pu être et ne fut pas. Une perspective cinématographique de la psychiatrie catalane en exil by Cristina Bernaldo

“…Francesc Tosquelles, a psychiatrist in exile since the end of the Spanish Civil War, practiced in the Saint Alban mental health facility located in Lozère, after spending several month in the Septfonds refugee camp. He stayed in Saint Alban for most of the Second World War, overcoming the “soft extermination” period, on which French psychiatry has only conducted limited investigations, with no loss of lives. …”
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"Anatheism" within the framework of theodicy: from theistic thinking to thepaschitic thinking in a pastoral hermeneutics by D. J. Louw

“… The Syrian and refugee crises, the violent radicalisation in Europe, and global xenophobia stir up anew the link between the human quest for meaning and hope within the realm of human misery and destructive acts of severe evil. …”
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Antisemitism in Medicine: An International Perspective by Michael Gordon, Jerome Teitel, Ted Rosenberg, Ruth Oratz, Naomi Katz, David Katz

“…However, even in the 1930s, refugee European Jewish doctors faced significant barriers when they tried to escape and practice elsewhere because of long-standing prejudices and anti-Jewish quotas in medical schools and hospitals around the world. …”
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A populist turn? by Ekman Mattias, Krzyżanowski Michał

“…This article undertakes a critical discourse analysis of Swedish quality newspaper editorials and their evolving framing of immigration since the 2015 peak of the recent European “refugee crisis”. Positioned within the ongoing discursive shifts in the Swedish public sphere and the growth of discursive uncivility in its mainstream areas, the analysis highlights how xenophobic and racist discourses once propagated by the far and radical right gradually penetrate into the studied broadsheet newspapers. …”
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La resistenza culturale nel Libano contemporaneo. Le sfide di artiste locali e profughe by Estella Carpi, Stefano Fogliata

“…Based on interviews conducted during 2018, this article examines the challenges that Lebanese citizen, Palestinian and Syrian refugee “culture-makers” – primarily artists – need to face in the Lebanese context, and how such challenges differ from or overlap with one another. …”
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Sahara Occidental : quel scénario après Gdeim Izik ? by Carmen Gómez Martín

“…The purpose of our study is to explain the development of the Gdeim Izik protests and provide the necessary elements to better understand the shortterm impact of this event in the occupied territories and in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). These effects materialized in the revitalization of the conflict by new forms of protest (such as the establishment of settlements outside urban centers) in the emergence of new players in the Sahrawi protest space (including young unemployed people and Human Rights activists), in the transition from peaceful actions to more radical and violent reactions, or in the escalating tensions between the different populations that live together in the region.…”
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Analysis of DNA cox1 barcoding revealed novel haplotype in Schistosoma haematobium isolated from Western Sudan by Ishraga Adam Elzain, Abeer Babiker Idris, Abdul Aziz Karim, Nagla Mohamed Ahmed, Salaheldein G. Elzaki, Semih Yılmaz, Mohamed A. Hassan, Hamid Suliman Abdalla

“…No infection was observed among residents of refugee camps. Only eight samples were PCR-positive, which were successfully sequenced, and included in the genetic diversity analysis. …”
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