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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...refugee from Somalia. This week, the lawyer and father of two was elected to Canada's parliament, the first-ever member ever of Somali descent. “I think it really breaks new ground,” he says. “It shows that Canada is one of the greatest countries in world where you can integrate quickly into the mainstream and be all you can be.” Hussen will represent the York...
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Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?

...refugees in neighbouring countries, now has 22 underground clinics in Syria. These care for some of the millions of Syrians living in hard-to-reach parts of the country and the 800,000 living in besieged areas, cut off from medical aid and supplies, electricity, telephone lines and food aid. Ingenuity and resourcefulness are core to these clinics, says Zaher Sahloul, SAMS...
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How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target
Society, Politics & Law

How we live is seen as a justification: Why the French way of life became a target

...refugees to come to Europe. These fanatical individuals who abuse religion will not win this war because they will not make us give up what we are. Because we are the targets, we are the soldiers of our own way of life. Continuing to go out, to travel and to live life to the full is a peaceful way of responding to these attacks.[The Conversation] This article was...
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Arendt
History & The Arts

Arendt

...refugee in New York, working as journalist and editor 1951 publishes The Origins of Totalitarianism; becomes an American citizen 1958 publishes The Human Condition 1961 publishes Between Past and Present April - stays in Jerusalem to cover Eichmann trial (pictured right) 1962 June - Eichmann hanged 1963 February-March - “Eichmann in Jersualem” published in five...
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A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...seekers - The Second Vatican Council and radical Protestantism were both ‘elite’ or ‘top-down’ efforts towards innovation. However, a further kind of innovation – which was to influence both Christian and non-Christian religious beliefs and practices – was bubbling away at a grassroots level in the 1960s, both inside and outside traditional Christianity. We...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...seekers expectations for employment and employment availability. The increased precarity of employment, uncertainty about the future and unmet expectations bring trust into a sharp focus. Trust is needed, especially in times when uncertainty and risk intersect, and is a key component of the psychological contract. Our data highlight that 25-30% of businesses had less than...
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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...refugees, minorities, the differently abled, the young, the old, those with and without physical homes – feel or be at home? How do we dwell, inhabit, or create a home in a world of instability, inequality and flux? How do make homes an era of migration? Can one be at home whilst on the move? Milton Keynes is a relatively new settlement, created in 1967 as part of the...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...Refugee Media Journeys project, the What could critical psychosocial (anti) self-help look like? project, and many more in CCIG’s Research Archive. An open methodological signature integrates technical expertise in methods with a critical conception of method. As such it sees method as a social accomplishment to be built, rather than an objective truth to be uncovered....
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