Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world…Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, ...
“The day I left Syria in 2014, I didn’t actually want to go. It is the place that I was born; it’s the place that I call home; it’s the place that I kissed a boy for the first time and the place that I climbed a tree for the first time,” Ramadan explained, adding th...
Another participant said that “some of my friends were very happy[to be]at home, because they could spend more time with their boyfriends and husbands. Many women I know got pregnant during the lockdown!” (FGD1, Nigeria, 19). Some participants appreciated their newfound quality time with...
“The day I left Syria in 2014, I didn’t actually want to go. It is the place that I was born; it’s the place that I call home. It’s the place that I kissed a boy for the first time and the place that I climbed a tree for the first time,” Ramadan says, but adds tha...
but he treated his staff harshly, and at night he tried to relax by smoking hashish. He often beat Manu. The boy had a gift for languages, and he begged to be enrolled in a private English school, but his father refused. So Manu eventually learned English on his own, along with Itali...
In the first episode, we start out in Beirut, Lebanon, after having seen Ajkic in Mostar. Here, the refugee crisis is quickly framed in terms of the innocent child as Ajkic, who has just brought us close to his own childhood, engages with an 11-year-old boy who, like him, was 7...
OPTICS method a 10,000 m distance threshold (i.e., the maximum allowed distance between neighboring objects), a one-day temporal threshold, and a three-neighbor minimum threshold were chosen, based on visual exploration, analysis scale (city level), and related studies in the literature [47]...
vulnerability; autographics; Vietnam war; everyday bordering; trauma; Thi Bui; Vietnamese American literature; Asian American comics1. Introduction For Vietnamese Americans, borders are an intrinsic part of their existence; symbolised in the space that separates and unites both demonyms, they do...
worked with teachers and learners at a Glaswegian primary school to harness imagery as a communicative tool to support the children’s engagement with literature that explores the theme of migration and journeys, includingThe Rabbits(2000),Gervelie’s Journey: A Refugee Diary(2008), andBoy Overboar...
Women of refugee background are subject to significant health inequity. Access to health information and a good level of health literacy are integral components to manage one’s health needs. The aim of this study isto understand the experiences of women