Displaced Subjects and Refugee Literature, 1965–1996

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-63
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Literature

scholarly journals Literature Focus Units as a Means of Exploring the Refugee Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Hwang ◽  
Betty Coneway
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
New School ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Refugee Literature ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
A Current

<p>Changes in the nation’s demographics, a current focus on immigration, and the world’s refugee crisis require educators to explore positive ways to assist students and families in transition. This article suggests using refugee literature to help ease children into the new school environment. Books associated with the refugee theme are organized using the literature focus unit framework. Four specific children’s literature titles are highlighted within the piece; however, the suggested books and activities are provided as a model to assist teachers in gaining new insight into how they can use cross-cultural communication to explore the refugee experience. We propose that through this exemplar unit, teachers can learn about authentic instructional approaches that may help them meet the multicultural needs of a variety of diverse student groups.</p>

scholarly journals Persistent psychological distress in resettled refugee women-at-risk at one-year follow-up: Contributions of trauma, post-migration problems, loss, and trust

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152096511
Author(s):  
Lyn Vromans ◽  
Robert D. Schweitzer ◽  
Mark Brough ◽  
Mary Asic Kobe ◽  
Ignacio Correa-Velez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Distress Level ◽  
One Year ◽  
Refugee Literature

The mental health of women has been largely neglected in the refugee literature, notwithstanding the specific gender-related issues that confront women seeking asylum. Furthermore, a specific category of women, deemed to be women-at-risk, face particular challenges in their journey and resettlement process. This longitudinal study investigated psychological distress in refugee women-at-risk one year after resettlement in Australia. Follow-up survey of 83 women-at-risk (mean age = 33.41 years; SD = 11.93) assessed: trauma events and symptoms; loss events and loss distress; level of post-migration problems; anxiety, depression, and somatic symptoms; and absence of trust in community members. Participants demonstrated no symptom change since initial assessment ( p > .05). Substantial proportions of women reported traumatization (39%), PTSD (20%), anxiety (32%), and depression (39%) above clinical cut-offs, and high levels of somatization and loss distress. Post-migration problems, trauma events, and region of birth were associated with all symptoms, with post-migration problems the strongest predictor. Absence of trust in community members was associated with trauma, depression, and somatic symptoms. Initial trauma and somatic symptoms were associated with follow-up traumatic and somatic symptoms. Loss and trauma events were associated with loss distress. Findings underline the role of post-migration problems on psychological distress and the need to consider women’s psychological wellbeing in the context of their trauma and loss history, potential impacts of ethnicity, and complex socio-cultural dynamics underpinning issues of trust within communities. Effective service delivery requires that practitioners screen for and address psychological distress in women-at-risk at least up to 18 months after resettlement.

Children Matter: Including Camp Children's Perspectives in Refugee Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Sasikumar Balasundaram
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Displaced Children ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Refugee Literature

Children are the center of households and an integral part of communities in many cultures. For a long time, refugee populations, including their children, have been treated as a homogenized social group on the basis of displacement and vulnerabilities. This has silenced the voices of displaced children in refugee literature. Nevertheless, as children constitute around half of the world's displaced persons, it is vital to listen to their views on the present and future.

scholarly journals Refugee Experience in Alan Gratz’s Refugee and Gillian Cross’ After Tomorrow Margarete Rubik Summary As a response to recent

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-29
Author(s):  
Margarete Rubik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Refugee Literature ◽  
University Lecturers ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
Migratory Movements

As a response to recent mass migratory movements, numerous children’s novels about refugees have been published in the last decades. The paper analyses two of these novels, Alan Gratz’s Refugee (2017) and Gillian Cross’s After Tomorrow (2013), and puts them into the context of the ‘transcultural turn’ in cultural studies. The paper also presents the results of a survey among university lecturers of various countries about the benefits, challenges and teaching aims of including migrant and refugee literature into the courses they teach.

Uncertainty in situations of forced displacement:Acritical interpretative synthesis of refugee literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. e2194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Schiltz ◽  
Sofie Vindevogel ◽  
Ilse Derluyn ◽  
Wouter Vanderplasschen
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Literature

Enter the Syrians

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-64
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Baylouny
Keyword(s):  
Forced Migration ◽  
Western World ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Refugee Literature ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

This chapter presents each of Jordan and Lebanon's refugee policies at the start of the Syrian exodus and state legal obligations under international treaties. It analyzes the effects of the refugees on Jordan and Lebanon in the context of past incapacities by presenting conclusions from the refugee literature about the effects of forced migration. It also examines the numerous changes in rent, jobs, inflation, the public services of health care, education, and waste removal, and resource provisions of electricity and water, using available data. The chapter discusses disputes about data and details the benefits that accrued to some citizens as a result of the presence of the Syrians and international organizations. It recounts how the Western world awoke to the Syrian refugee crisis four years into the Syrian civil war, when Syrians arrived on Greek shores as refugees fleeing.

scholarly journals ZUM SPRACHWECHSEL IN DER ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN „MIGRATIONSLITERATUR“ SLAWISCH-RUSSISCHER PROVENIENZ

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Christian Trepte
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
German Language ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
Emigre Literature ◽  
Conscious Choice ◽  
Hybrid Texts ◽  
No Man's Land ◽  
Refugee Literature ◽  
Effective Integration

The main topic of this article is migration literature written in German mainly by writers of Slavonic-Russian descent. Language as well as switching language in literature is a crucial problem in émigré literature, in migration literature, and refugee literature. Most authors of the children / grandchildren generation of (e)migrants writing in German do not ignore the language of their parents / grandparents, even not in extreme cases of denying their family roots. The new languages in which these literary texts are written are often considered as a useful tool to express unsaid or tabooed problems. Using the German language such kind of works may often find themselves in a no man’s land between languages, cultures and literatures; evaluated often as intercultural or hybrid texts. Bi- and multilingualism are seen as essential conditions for an effective integration, as a conscious choice generating fluid, double or multiple identities. Linguistically seen often interesting language interactions, wordplays, and verbal wits may occur. The literary characters in these texts are often identified or associated with their authors, as a special type of reception or reading strategy influenced by intensified traces in texts. The refugee crisis represents another challenge of the mention literary topic in transformation and continuity for writers as well as for (literary) scholars.

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