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Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...refugee walks among severely damaged buildings in downtown Homs, Syria (2014) At one stage, Turkey even revealed the positions of French troops and US bases in northeast Syria. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sharply criticised his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, for meeting Kurdish leaders in Paris and for offering to mediate between the SDF and Turkey....
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...refugee colonies and worked manual, service and precarious part-time jobs to support their families and were thus limited in their mobility. A few were women and their opportunities were severely regulated by hip hop’s hyper-heterosexual regimes, which I discuss throughout my book and in particular in Chapter 7, in the prologue and in the epilogue. What all my...
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...asylum seekers and refugees’, ‘young offenders’ and others. Roles range from development workers, to advisers, counsellors, mentors and supervisors. Alongside the roles with young people, there are what we might call ‘organisational’ roles such as fundraising and administration. These jobs all involve a particular area of expertise, related to the target group....
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...refugees and asylum seekers’, British Educational Research Journal. doi: https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3618 Lexico.com (2020) Definition of ‘assent’. Available at: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/assent (Accessed: 15 April 2025). Learning Disability Health Facilitation Team (2022) ‘10 Key Points on Consent and People with...
Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...refugees from then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), following the genocide perpetrated by Pakistan army and their collaborators during the Bangladesh Liberation War. A total of 40,000 people attended the concert, and close to US $250,000 was raised for Bangladesh relief. It was also Bob Dylan's return to the spotlight after a few years’ absence from the stage following a...
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...asylum seekers, so people still in poverty. Morning! MOTHER Hello! TINA PRICE Hello, how are you? Nice to see you again. MOTHER Very well. Good, good. TINA PRICE Is it cold out? MOTHER It’s freezing, yeah. TINA PRICE Oh, bless you. MOTHER I’ve come for Toddler Time. TINA PRICE Toddler Time? Yes, it’s on today. Hedgerows has been through a period of change, like lots...
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...asylum-based treatment to care in the community. There has been a great deal of debate about whether this policy has been a success or not. However, one thing is clear: the media portrayal of people experiencing mental health problems in general continues to be negative. The debate about the supposed link between mental distress and the risk of violence to other people is...
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Asylum-seekers officially become ‘refugees’ if the government of the host country accepts that they have a well-founded fear of persecution should they return home. In the UK, matters of asylum are managed by the Home Office, and social workers generally do not have direct input into their assessment and management. However, asylum-seeking individuals and families...