scholarly journals Agency, resistance and (forced) mobilities.The case of Syrian refugees in transit through Italy.

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (47) ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Denaro
Keyword(s):  
Northern Europe ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Demographic Composition ◽  
Dublin Regulation ◽  
System Data ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract During the biennium 2013–2014 Syrian refugees started to reach Italy through Mediterranean seaborne migration routes, from Libya and Egypt. Their presence contributed to partially modifying the configuration of the incoming migration flows to Italy, both in terms of socio-demographic composition and access to the European asylum system. Data shows that most of the Syrian refugees who landed in Italy between 2013 and 2014 decided to pursue their journeys to Northern Europe, by overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Dublin Regulation. The article focuses on the phenomenon of transit, as an interesting standpoint from which to observe certain acts of agency and resistance, put in place by refugees in order to “choose the country where to live” (Denaro, 2016): the refusal to provide fingerprints during identification, the organization of hunger strikes, the secondary mobility per se. Moreover, the article attempts to shed light on the relational and socio-political context in which these practices have taken shape, by focusing on the construction of relationships with activists and volunteers, and the (explicit and tacit) processes of negotiation which refugees conducted with police authorities and other stakeholders.

scholarly journals Da Lagkadikia al Mediterraneo: gli spazi delle migrazioni in Grecia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerio Raffaele
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dublin Regulation ◽  
Geographical Position ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
The Ideal

The geopolitical upheavals affecting the Middle East and North Africa at the beginning of the 21st century have created an arc of instability around the Balkan Peninsula, causing serious consequences for all the countries in the area as regards migration flows. Due to its peculiar geographical position, Greece has thus found itself at the forefront of the so-called migratory emergency, which has involved the European Union (UE) in the last few years. The Dublin Regulation first and then the closure of the borders, following the agreement on migrants between the UE and Turkey in March 2016, have made Greece a sort of first reception hotspot for the whole Eastern Mediterranean, giving rise at the same time to new Balkan migration routes managed by human traffickers. Historically a hinge between East and West, today’s Greece constitutes the ideal starting point to interpret in a multi-scalar perspective both the weaknesses of the paradigm on which the so-called ‘Fortress Europe’ is based, and the geographical variety of problematic ‘living spaces’ that recent migratory phenomena have contributed to build over time.

scholarly journals Access to healthcare and self-rated health among refugees in transit and after arrival in Norway

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Haj-Younes ◽  
E Strømme ◽  
W Hasha ◽  
J Igland ◽  
E Abildsnes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Perceived Access ◽  
In Transit

Abstract Background Lack of basic infrastructure and poor provision of health services in conflict settings and during flight can have a negative impact on health. The overall health status of refugees seems to improve after arrival at a safe destination. This may be related to a safer environment and better access to health care services, but prior studies on this topic are limited. This study aims to assess self-perceived access to healthcare and its relationship with self-rated health (SRH) among refugees in transit and when settled in a host country. Methods We used data from the CHART study (Changing Health and health care needs Along the Syrian Refugees' Trajectories to Norway), which includes a cohort of 353 Syrian refugees who were contacted in 2017-2018 in Lebanon while waiting for relocation, and one year after their arrival to Norway. Information on self-perceived access to healthcare and its association with SRH was analyzed separately at each time-point. Data analysis was performed with STATA using logistic regression adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity and years of education and presented as adjusted odds ratios (AOR) with 95% CI. Results Fifteen percent reported good access to healthcare and 62% reported good SRH in Lebanon vs. 91% and 77% respectively, in Norway. Measures in Lebanon showed no association between access to healthcare and good SRH (AOR: 1.2 (0.6-2.2)), and men reported worse access to healthcare than women (AOR: 0.5 (0.3-1.0). In Norway, access to healthcare was strongly associated with good SRH (AOR: 4.7 (2.1-10.7) and was negatively associated with belonging to one specific minority group (AOR: 0.1 (0.0-0.3)). Conclusions Both SRH and perceived access to care improved from being in transit to being settled in Norway, the latter substantially more. There was a significant association between access to healthcare and good SRH after the refugees' arrival to a safe host country but not in transit. Key messages Refugee’s self-reported health and access to healthcare seem to improve shortly after arrival to a host country. To ensure that the UN’S Sustainable Development Goals concerning health equity are reached, refugees’ access to healthcare in transit and its impact on overall health needs to be addressed.

Re- visiting the Roman Iron Age Hoby chieftain burial after 100 years of its discovery - adding the strontium isotopic perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Margarita Frei ◽  
Susanne Klingenberg
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Environmental Samples ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Strontium Isotope ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
The North ◽  
Isotope Analyses ◽  
Shed Light

In 1920 on the island of Lolland, in southern Denmark the remains of one of northern Europe’s richest graves came to light, the Hoby chieftain burial. It revealed a large number of luxurious Roman goods, including two silver drinking cups decorated with Greek-inspired scenes from Homer’s Iliad. The burial dates to the beginning of the Roman Iron Age (1CE -200CE), and represents a key point in time when the Roman Empire failed to expand towards the north and changed its strategy towards a more political and diplomatic type of relationship with northern Europe. Hence, the Hoby burial is considered to be a key example of this type of relationship. We revisited the burial and present the first strontium isotope analyses of the human remains of the Hoby individual from three of his teeth and 10 additional environmental samples to shed light on his provenance. We discussed these results in light of the new insights provided by recent excavations of a contemporary nearby settlement. Our results indicate that the Hoby individual was most probably of local origin, corroborating previous interpretations. Furthermore, the associated settlement seems to confirm the central role of Hoby in the Early Roman Iron Age society.

Emotional geographies of irregular transmigrants’ journeys

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amalia Campos-Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Central American ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Migratory Process ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Migrants’ journeys involve geopolitical, corporeal, and emotional dimensions. Yet, emotions, which are fundamental to understand the migrant experience, are usually overlooked. Following the ‘emotional geographies’ approach, this article analyses the spatial contextualisation of the affective and emotional experiences of irregular migrants in transit. Cognitive mapping methodology is proposed as a means to address the spatial and subjective dimensions of migrants’ experiences. The ‘testimonial maps’ of two Central American transmigrants in Mexico are explored. The emotional geographies of irregular transmigration underscore the emotional turmoil associated with the irregular migratory process(es). They shed light to the familiar arrangements made before the journey, the natural landscape as part of the control, the encounters with agents of the state and criminal actors, the sanctuary places, the acquaintances and fortuitous friendships, the resilience and adaptability needed for endure the journey, and, beneath all this, the multi-emotional dimension of the journey: love, sorrow, shame, courage, anxiety, fear, trust, kindness, and hope.

scholarly journals Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511876444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Gillespie ◽  
Souad Osseiran ◽  
Margie Cheesman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
European Policies ◽  
Iraqi Refugee ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Regular Contact

This research examines the role of smartphones in refugees’ journeys. It traces the risks and possibilities afforded by smartphones for facilitating information, communication, and migration flows in the digital passage to Europe. For the Syrian and Iraqi refugee respondents in this France-based qualitative study, smartphones are lifelines, as important as water and food. They afford the planning, navigation, and documentation of journeys, enabling regular contact with family, friends, smugglers, and those who help them. However, refugees are simultaneously exposed to new forms of exploitation and surveillance with smartphones as migrations are financialised by smugglers and criminalized by European policies, and the digital passage is dependent on a contingent range of sociotechnical and material assemblages. Through an infrastructural lens, we capture the dialectical dynamics of opportunity and vulnerability, and the forms of resilience and solidarity, that arise as forced migration and digital connectivity coincide.

scholarly journals Subcellular Localization of Fad1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A Choice at Post-Transcriptional Level?

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bruni ◽  
Teresa Anna Giancaspero ◽  
Mislav Oreb ◽  
Maria Tolomeo ◽  
Piero Leone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Protein Targeting ◽  
Bioinformatic Analysis ◽  
Protein Product ◽  
Transcriptional Level ◽  
Mitochondrial Localization ◽  
Gene Encoding ◽  
Cis Acting ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Shed Light

FAD synthase is the last enzyme in the pathway that converts riboflavin into FAD. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the gene encoding for FAD synthase is FAD1, from which a sole protein product (Fad1p) is expected to be generated. In this work, we showed that a natural Fad1p exists in yeast mitochondria and that, in its recombinant form, the protein is able, per se, to both enter mitochondria and to be destined to cytosol. Thus, we propose that FAD1 generates two echoforms—that is, two identical proteins addressed to different subcellular compartments. To shed light on the mechanism underlying the subcellular destination of Fad1p, the 3′ region of FAD1 mRNA was analyzed by 3′RACE experiments, which revealed the existence of (at least) two FAD1 transcripts with different 3′UTRs, the short one being 128 bp and the long one being 759 bp. Bioinformatic analysis on these 3′UTRs allowed us to predict the existence of a cis-acting mitochondrial localization motif, present in both the transcripts and, presumably, involved in protein targeting based on the 3′UTR context. Here, we propose that the long FAD1 transcript might be responsible for the generation of mitochondrial Fad1p echoform.

scholarly journals Community Policing and the Syrian Refugee Community in Wellington District

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvette Tohill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Mixed Nature

Relationships between the New Zealand Police and refugee communities are largely unresearched. This case study focuses on Syrian refugees in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Syrian refugees are notable by their numbers since the onset of the Syrian Civil War in 2014, and Greater Wellington is an area where many have been re-settled. Police are a key symbol of the state and interaction with police can leave defining impressions. This study researches refugee experiences in New Zealand through semi-structured interviews with police and others who have worked with Syrian refugees. It seeks to shed light on the mixed nature of the refugee experience and the opportunities for improvement that exist. Community Policing studies in New Zealand have not previously included aspects of ethnicity beyond New Zealand Maori, and this study may therefore assist in more generally understanding the strengths and challenges of Community Policing and refugee communities in New Zealand.

scholarly journals The Politics of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: A Question of Inclusion and Exclusion through Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebnem Koser Akcapar ◽  
Dogus Simsek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Turkish Government ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Direct Outcome ◽  
To Receive

Turkey began to receive refugees from Syria in 2011 and has since become the country hosting the highest number of refugees, with more than 3.5 million Syrians and half a million people of other nationalities, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. An important turning point regarding the legal status of Syrian refugees has come with recent amendments to the Turkish citizenship law. Based on ongoing academic debates on integration and citizenship, this article will explore these two concepts in the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey. We will argue that the shift in the Turkish citizenship law is a direct outcome of recent migration flows. We further argue that the citizenship option is used both as a reward for skilled migrants with economic and cultural capital and as a tool to integrate the rest of the Syrians. It also reflects other social, political and demographic concerns of the Turkish government. Using our recent ethnographic study with Syrians and local populations in two main refugee hosting cities in Turkey, Istanbul and Gaziantep, we will locate the successes and weaknesses of this strategy by exemplifying the views of Syrian refugees on gaining Turkish citizenship and the reactions of Turkish nationals.

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Exceptional Group ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
The World ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
The Media ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
In Transit

The Handbook of Migration Crises runs the gamut of situations that are constructed as crises in migration contexts around the globe, historically and contemporaneously. The volume deconstructs and questions representations of migrations as crises, examining how crises arise, what is a crisis, and how this concept is used in the media and politics in transit and receiving countries. As a whole, the volume unveils the structural forces and actors that contribute to the construction of migration crises. It highlights the role of the media and public officials in framing migratory flows as crises, revisits and redefines, through a critical lens, what is commonly understood as a “migration crisis.” The volume brings together an exceptional group of scholars from around the world to critically examine migration crises and to revisit the notion of crisis through the prism of the context in which permanent and non-permanent migration flows occur.

2015 Migrant Crisis as a Stimulus for EU’s Modern Regulatory Policy Reconsidering: Management and Security Dimensions

2017 ◽  
pp. 161-172
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Fisanov
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Dublin Regulation ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Visegrad Group ◽  
The Eu

The body of the article goes on to discuss the migration and refugee policy issues that went viral in media, as well as became widely discussed by experts and EU power-holding structures. Few researchers have addressed the problem under study and require an in-depth analysis. This paper outlines the evolution of the EU approaches to regulation and management of migration flows forced and caused by 2015 migrant crisis. The main weakness in the previous studies is that they make no attempt to upgrade tools and mechanisms for optimizing modern migration policy. Of particular importance is keynote actors’ impact on decision-making and shaping public opinion on migration problems – namely, European executives, NGO’s, pressmen as well as migrants and refugees themselves. This paper has given an account of the Dublin Regulation (2013) that the author considers to be outdated. Since the migrant crisis started, it has been clear that this system is inadequate, and that some of the burden must be borne by Europe's wealthy northern states. There is evidence to suggest migration policy tools to be dramatically reformed, though the European Parliament’s planned amendment to Dublin Regulation could face new challenges. The findings of this study support the idea that most of the EU member states managed to pursue a common policy on triggering refugee influx, primarily in Greece and Italy, in addition to a joint stance in terms of fixing a quota on migrants – not including the Visegrad Group. Keywords: 2015 Migrant crisis, common EU policy, Greece, Hungary, Dublin Regulation, refugees, economic migration

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