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What's in store for Angela Merkel's fourth term?
Society, Politics & Law

What's in store for Angela Merkel's fourth term?

...asylum policy, 56% claimed in polling that they would rather see her remain chancellor while only 32% favoured Schulz. With neither the mainstream parties nor the voters daring to rock the boat, Merkel barely needed to campaign. But now she faces another set of challenges before she can forge a new government. Before the election it was thought that the higher the vote...
How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...
OpenLearn Ireland

How the Good Friday Agreement changed my life...

...asylum to the lunatics’, as it were. Polls plummeted. Eventually, we clawed back the narrative, delivering impressive cross-party, cross-community platforms of realistic and authentic spokespeople, arguing to give peace a chance, through a victory to both ‘sides’ and lay the foundations for a better, more prosperous future, building on consent and strong expression...
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...asylum seekers. CRAIG DAVIDSON: My name's Craig, and I am a newly registered adult nurse. [MUSIC PLAYING] It's currently 6:30 AM. Since becoming a nurse, I've become a bit of a morning person. I'm currently on coffee number one. I work for Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership as part of their Asylum Health Bridging Team. We arrange for asylum seekers to be...
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...refugee camps, needed to look past the gatekeeper recommended camp committees who represented only dominant communities and find ways to hear the very different experiences of those in the same camps in order to make recommendations that would benefit all. Takeaways: recognise the ecology of your research project to identify all involved or affected embrace the diversity...
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...refugees, illegal aliens) – claims and practices through which they act as European citizens. It also prompts consideration of state practices that deprive them from doing so. Often, we see that subjects that are not citizens act as citizens: they constitute themselves as those with the right to have rights and articulate claims accordingly. We can see this, for...
How was the US election viewed in the Middle East
Society, Politics & Law

How was the US election viewed in the Middle East

...refugee camp next door, and today in Hebron and, briefly, Bethlehem. Again, I was going round cafes, and talking to people in the street, asking them their opinion about the US election. In all three places, the most common answer was the same: that it wouldn’t make any difference. As an older man in Aqabat Jaber said to me “I remember Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton,...
Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...refugees who are hunted out of the light of day the shells of their enemies. And yet, if they cannot be merry, they are full of hope and courage. If you would know what the people of France think of Germany's peace cry, talk with the inhabitants of Arras. Not one of them will awaken on Christmas morning with a prayer for peace. From: Daily Express, Boxing Day 1916...
Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...refugee camp on the outskirts of a mid-western city in India. I still have deep connections with the city and my family in India. I have been teaching in universities for the past thirty-three years. These experiences must have influenced my parental behaviour hence why I mention these. [Parents building a dinosaur park with their young son] The first few years I found...