Capacity-building through English language training to improve long-term resettlement success: A case study of the refugees along the Thailand-Burma border

Achieving long-term resettlement success is a challenge for many refugees seeking to restart their lives after displacement and being uprooted from their lives. Refugees must deal with finding employment, integrating into a society immensely different from what they have known their whole lives, and starting over from scratch. Learning a new language enables refugees to progress towards integration and long-term resettlement success, however, resettled refugees face a multitude of barriers in the U.S. to accessing language classes and attaining English proficiency. This study seeks to bridge this problem by exploring the possibilities of implementing a standardized language training program in the refugee camps to better prepare refugees for resettlement. A case study of the refugees along the Thai-Burma border demonstrated the significance of learning English in the camps on eventual English proficiency as well as the need for increased partnerships to overcome the barriers of lack of motivation and lack of funding. The author explores the possibilities of implementing a language training program in the camps by determining need, interest, barriers, and perceptions through the use of interviews, surveys, and focus groups of camp refugees, resettled refugees, and key organizational representatives. The significance of these results offers the possibility of leveraging and unlocking resettlement as a durable solution for more of the world's refugees in protracted situations.

Public health lessons for refugee reception: the example of Sidi Bulgayz

Conflicts force millions of people to abandon their homes and flee life-threatening persecution, war, and ethnic and political discrimination. From the end of World War II to the present day, more than 59 million people worldwide have become refugees and displaced persons. Displacement affects people's health, psychological well-being and economic welfare.

El camp cañí. Folclore popular, kitsch y género en el arte contemporáneo español

Partiendo de la noción de camp, especialmente de la caracterización aportada por Susan Sontag, estudiaremos la estética kitsch y las influencias del folclore popular en el arte contemporáneo español, concretamente en el asociado al momento histórico de la Transición y al movimiento sociocultural de la Movida. Asimismo prestaremos particular atención a su uso en discursos queer y de disidencia de género. Para ello nos centraremos en la obra de autores como José Pérez Ocaña y Costus (pareja profesional formada por Enrique Naya y Juan Carrero), en cuyas producciones el kitsch, el tono paródico y el uso de elementos de la cultura popular (desde iconografía religiosa hasta imágenes inspiradas en la canción española) sirven de expresión a posturas que, al tiempo que transitan los márgenes del binarismo sexual, apuntan a una cierta politización en consonancia con las corrientes aperturistas del momento.

The Florida Seminole camp / by Alexander Spoehr, Curator, North American Ethnology and Archaeology.

v.33:no.3(1944)

Camp, clan, and kin among the Cow Creek Seminole of Florida / by Alexander Spoehr, Assistant Curator, American Ethnology and Archaeology.

v.33:no.1(1941)