« Ici, pas de politique » by Alfredo Mignini

“…This article deals with Otello Palmieri’s atypical life trajectory: after taking part to the Resistance war as a member of the Italian communist party and reaching Prague as a political refugee in 1949-53, as soon as he arrived in Switzerland he dismissed all political activity, although his interest in Italian political affairs remained acute. …”
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Why Rebuild on Toxic, Sinking Ground?: The Challenges for Disaster Recovery in Southeast Louisiana by Jamie Lynn Chan

“…Through combining historical and ethnographic insights from the Black residents in Cancer Alley, the Vietnamese refugee community in New Orleans East, and the Indigenous tribal members of the Grand Bayou Village, this article argues that marginalized landscapes and livelihoods have been structurally made to become untenable within the economic bounds of disaster recovery. …”
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Development and validation of a multidimensional, culturally and socially inclusive Child Resilience Questionnaire (parent/caregiver report) to measure factors that support resilie... by Deirdre Gartland, Elisha Riggs, Rebecca Giallo, Stephanie Janne Brown, Karen Glover, Kelsey Hegarty, Amanda Mitchell, Jane Yelland, Josef Szwarc, Sue Casey, Donna Weetra, Mardi Stowe, Sharon Mongta, Helen Herman, Selena White, Tanya Koolmatrie, Georgie Paxton

“…The tool also adds to the few culturally competent measures relevant to Aboriginal and refugee background communities.…”
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Providers' Perceptions of Challenges in Obstetrical Care for Somali Women by Jalana N. Lazar, Crista E. Johnson-Agbakwu, Olga I. Davis, Michele P.-L. Shipp

“…This pilot study explored health care providers’ perceptions of barriers to providing health care services to Somali refugee women. The specific aim was to obtain information about providers’ experiences, training, practices and attitudes surrounding the prenatal care, delivery, and management of women with Female Genital Cutting (FGC). …”
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Some Qualitative Analyses of Neutral Functional Delay Differential Equation with Generalized Caputo Operator by Abdellatif Boutiara, Mohammed M. Matar, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar, Francisco Martínez, Sina Etemad, Shahram Rezapour

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“Back and Forth Between the Sea and the Mountain”: Negative Mobility and Transnationalism in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach by Grazia Micheli

“…The protagonist, Mulberry, is a Chinese refugee woman who is forced to relocate across China, Taiwan and the United States to escape war as well as male and institutional violence. …”
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One approach is that we learn together, regardless of the language, regardless of the school subject: the translanguaging stance of teachers in a migration school scenario in south... by Anamaria Welp, Eduardo Sampaio, Gláucia Helena Sarmento Malta

“…ABSTRACT This article presents the results of a study conducted at Escola das Pontes, a school in southern Brazil that serves local, immigrant, and refugee students, primarily from Haiti and Venezuela. …”
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El estatuto de refugiado erigido como frontera humanitaria en Chile by Martina Cociña-Cholaky, Nanette Liberona Concha

“…Conclusions: The findings reveal that Chile employs selective state management differentiated by nationality, prioritizing the protection of certain migrant groups that align with the classical definition of a refugee. This approach is linked to the non-recognition of other diasporas experiencing forced mobility. …”
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Undocumented immigrants and advanced heart failure therapies by Matthew Kogan, Sarah L. Kimball, Katherine Purrington, Jennifer Cedor, Omar K. Siddiqi, MD

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The Exile Experience Reconsidered: a Comparative Perspective in European Cultural Migration during the Interwar Period by Renato Camurri

“…The first phase of studies into intellectual exile was strongly conditioned by two classic interpretative paradigms: the acculturation paradigm and the paradigm of the impact refugee scholars had on American culture. However, the field of so called “Exile Studies” has widened remarkably in recent years extending to philosophy, literature, sociology and anthropology. …”
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Poezija kao luksuz i sredstvo preživljanja by Dubravka Djurić, Aleksandar Bošković

“… Poetry as a Luxury and Means for Survival The paper focuses on two blogger-poets, Maja Solar and Jelena Savić, who create poetry and conceptualize the relationship between philosophy and politics. Maja Solar is a refugee from Croatia, now living in Serbia, who sometimes mixes Serbian and Croatian language standards. …”
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Unlocking engagement: exploring the drivers of elderly participation in digital backfeeding through community education by Sijie Sun

“…Amid China’s rapid aging and digitalization, elderly individuals face a “digital refugee” dilemma, making community education a vital channel for enhancing their digital participation. …”
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Evolving Roles for International Social Work in Addressing Climate Change by Julie L. Nagoshi, Vijayan K. Pillai, Mashooq A. Salehin

“…Their work spans individual counseling, social protection, and addressing environmental refugee crises. As climate change impacts intensify, social workers must expand their roles internationally, advocating for human rights, social justice, and disaster risk reduction. …”
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The Dilemmas of Solidarity of Civic Activists: Supporting Displaced Ukrainians in a Non‐Solidarian Regime by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt

“…We identified three perspectives through which civic solidarity actors articulated their normative and strategic dilemmas: the origin and nature of the needs of the displaced people, the refugee assistance responsibilities thereby assigned, and the broader social care system in the host society. …”
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Huaqiao Nongchang: Isolated Settlements of Overseas Chinese Inside China by P. E. Strukova

“…A comprehensive analysis of works by Chinese experts uncovers a significant reason for the PRC authorities' adoption of this approach: it provided a swift solution to hunger-related issues and the employment of vast refugee populations.As time progressed, drawbacks in this approach to managing emigrants became apparent. …”
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Migration typology of the world’s coastal exclaves by Anna V. Lialina, Angelina P. Plotnikova

“…Exclaves that lack attractiveness to migrants include those developing under harsh climatic conditions such as Alaska; those experiencing extreme temperatures and possessing underdeveloped economies like Oecussi-Ambeno, Temburong and French Guiana; and densely populated exclaves facing a massive refugee influx, such as Ceuta and Melilla. Attractive exclaves are economically prosperous regions that take advantage of their coastal location, such as the Kaliningrad region and Crimea, and specialise in oil and gas production, for example, Cabinda and Musandam. …”
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Development and implementation of an electronic health record system for use in humanitarian emergencies, disaster response, and conflict zones. by Sarah D Draugelis, Erik C Brown, Donald A Donahue, Justin Hickman, Sean G Smith, Philip Sutherland, George A Yendewa, Amir M Mohareb

“…The settings of fEMR use ranged from refugee and migrant health clinics near the Mexico-US border to the Poland-Ukraine border in the context of the 2022 war in Ukraine. …”
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The effect of preconception housing and living conditions on primary infertility among couples in Gaza Strip, Palestine: A case-control study by Amal DHAIR, Yehia ABED

“…Results: A positive association between using private vendors as a source of drinking water before marriage and primary infertility (P < 0.001) was demonstrated in females and males. Being a refugee (P = 0.036), living near borders (P = 0.011), living in extended families (P = 0.021), paying for rents (P = 0.029), and using septic porous sewer tanks (P = 0.020) provided a positive significant relationship after marriage. …”
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Taking stock of vaccine hesitancy among migrants: a scoping review protocol by Charles S Wiysonge, Sten H Vermund, Akhenaten Siankam Tankwanchi, Anelisa Jaca, Heidi J Larson

“…Introduction At the 72nd World Health Assembly of May 2019, WHO member states prioritised a global action plan to promote migrant and refugee health. Five months earlier, WHO had declared vaccine hesitancy—the reluctance to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccination services—as one of the top 10 threats to global health. …”
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Respectful community engagement in health research with diverse im/migrant communities by M Ruth Lavergne, Shira Goldenberg, Mei-ling Wiedmeyer, Stefanie Machado, Samira Karsiem

“…Community engagement has been especially uncommon in mixed-method and quantitative research in Canada.Objective This article describes lessons learnt from the Evaluating Inequities in Refugee &amp; Immigrants’ Health Access (IRIS) project from 2018 to 2023, an ongoing mixed-method, community-based research project in British Columbia, Canada. …”
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