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Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is scientific research part of emergency response?

...refugees and migrants, medical data can demonstrate that government policies are causing harm to people.” What I heard did enough to overturn an initial impression that this vital frontline science might be lacking the visibility that would help both itself and others in the field. But humanitarianism remains a field with a weaker tradition of evidence than health and...
Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...refugees: ‘Britain’s exit […] is the most dramatic wake-up call to date that the prevailing model of integration has left many people feeling alienated from the EU’s complex and distant decision-making’. For the most part, however, Youngs focuses on the continuing involvement of all Europeans in democracy, rather than the parochial concerns obsessing Britain at...
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...refugees to England, religious refugees, from the Low Countries when the Spanish were persecuting them as Protestants. Laurie Taylor: Suddenly the word efflorescence occurs to me. A working class interest in gardening and in flowers. You talk about the way in which the handloom weavers were particularly interested in developing flowers and their position at home enabling...
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...