Thesis advisor: Hans de Wit / The current displacement crisis in the German context has focused scholarly attention on refugee student access to higher education. However, much less research has attended to supports at higher education institutions (HEIs) for enrolled migrant and refugee students. In fact, education research in the German setting rarely focuses on students from any migrant background, though these students comprise between 20-25% of all German tertiary enrollment. This study uses Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz, 2014) and a postcolonial lens to analyze “equal opportunity” plans and programs at 32 German HEIs across all 16 federal states. Data sources include the “equal opportunity plan” unique to each HEI (Gleichstellungsplan) and interviews with “equal opportunity office” (Gleichstellungsbüro) faculty and staff. Key findings include a bureaucratization and numerification of diversity in the German case, as well as an almost exclusive focus on diversity as gender. This dissertation offers a potentially transferable theoretical model, which may be relevant in national settings with increasingly diverse student populations, histories of colonial possession or fantasy, or primarily public higher education systems (Bhabha, 1994; El-Tayeb, 2016; Kilomba, 2008; Said, 1979). / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

In the year 2016, 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes. A third of these people are now refugees (UNHCR 2017). As these people seek refuge in other countries, the citizens of the host countries are pushing back with fear of the unknown. In this instance it does not matter to those who fear the other from what the refugees are escaping, nor what it took to get where they are now. An architectural movement is expanding beyond its traditional skills in order to empower those outside of the field to engage with the spatial environments. This opens up the possibility of giving those who have been classified as "other" a voice through a spatial construction. Architectural affect offers an opportunity to create a social commentary through architecture. These sensations are created through the unconscious adaptation of perspective, without the use of cultural symbols (Lavin 2011). In architecture, affect can be fostered with the participation of space and intensified with the interaction between one or more mediums. Through the examination of the experience of refugees who have encountered the fear of "otherness", this thesis looks to translate these memories into an architectural construction that will examine the concept of vocalization through affect and mitigate the fear felt by the host countries. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of political sciences LGBTQ issues of the right to asylum and the refugee status Master thesis 2019 Jon Landaluze Aurre Author: Jon Landaluze Aurre Supervisor: JUDr. Milan Lipovsky, Ph.D. Study programme: MAIN Academic Year: 2018/2019 Bibliographic note LANDALUZE, Jon. (2019) LGBTQ issues of the right to asylum and the refugee status. Master thesis. Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences. Institute of Political Science. Supervisor: JUDr. Milan Lipovsky, Ph.D. Abstract Here we find a thesis on the topic of refugee protection and the specific area of LGBTQ applicants. This is a topic that still nowadays is important to analyze, since the acceptation and evolution of these specific cases is something that evolves throughout the present times. The objective of it is to first define the refugee definition and to see if the definition that is given is actually interpreted in the way that it protects this group of people worldwide. It then goes to analyze the European interpretation of the topic and the issues that usually arise when making decisions about international protection of the applicants, concluding with the problems that actually happen and the possible solutions to avoid them. Keywords Refugees, Asylum, LGBTQ, Persecution, International...

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the most common forms of gynecologic cancers both in the United States and worldwide. The morbidity and mortality associated with cervical cancer has decreased significantly with the development of effective screening for cervical cancer.1 However, refugee women in the United States are often impacted by the disparities in health care and experience increased risk of adverse health outcomes. LITERATURE REVIEW: Current research finds that refugee women in the United States often receive inadequate sexual and reproductive health services, including Pap smears for cervical cancer screening. This disparity leads to a higher burden of preventable morbidity and mortality. For refugee populations, numerous barriers to access have been identified including language, financial, and cultural barriers. Previous studies have identified that refugee women may have limited experience with preventative health care or confront cultural barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive health services. Further research must be done to study barriers to accessing cervical cancer screening among specific populations of refugee women. METHODS AND INTERVENTION: This study proposes to interview Iraqi, Bhutanese, and Somali refugee women in the greater-Boston area in order to better characterize experiences and understanding of cervical cancer screening. Investigators will conduct semi-structured interviews to collect narrative data, which will then be analyzed using qualitative analysis software to identify major themes. CONCLUSION: This study will seek to characterize perceptions and experiences of cervical cancer screening services among female refugees in the greater-Boston area. Limitations of this study include lack of generalizability and question-order bias. SIGNIFICANCE: The goal of characterizing barriers to access affecting refugee women in the greater-Boston community is to inform development of more effective public health interventions that will be targeted to the specific needs of local refugee populations. Efforts to increase uptake of cervical cancer screening services could result in decreased morbidity and mortality from cervical cancer for a vulnerable sector of the population.

Legal status of whistleblowers in relation to the refugee status Abstract The aim of this thesis is to introduce the whistleblowing issue in context of international law, refugee law specifically. In recent years, there have been several globally significant cases of whistleblowers responsible for leaks of information of i.a. public entities and seeking protection against their own state of nationality in other countries. Despite the worldwide attention that these cases got, the problematics of whistleblowing is not sufficiently covered from the perspective of international law. Especially in Czech law literature, this topic is neglected in such context. The object of the thesis is therefore to provide an overview of the issue and to identify and analyze its controversial aspects. The work is structured from general introduction into the topic, thereafter defining crucial terms and institutes and categorizing them, towards detailed analysis of the status of whistleblowers and each of refugee definition parts in particular. The core of the work itself is constituted of application of these definition characteristics to miscellaneous whistleblower cases, with the purpose of answering the research question whether (and under what condition) could whistleblowers fulfill the refugee definition. In the thesis is...

The Swedish integration policy has for a considerable time focused on the labour market integration in which different actors such as the Swedish Public Employment Service, Migration Agency, Municipalities, counties as well as non-governmental organisations and the churches come to play different roles in refugee integration. Refugees are introduced to the Swedish labour market and have their skills and educational qualifications validated by the Swedish Public Employment Service in preparation for the labour market. However, amidst this welcoming gesture towards refugees by the Swedish government, there is a growth in the anti-immigrant movements in Sweden posing a threat to refugee employability. The aim of this thesis, therefore, was to examine the major successes and challenges of the refugee integration policy in the Swedish labour market in relation to refugee employability. This was a qualitative study in which both primary and secondary data sources were used. A snowball strategy was used in identifying 8 respondents. The data was collected using an open ended survey and thematic analysis was eventually conducted. The study has revealed that the Swedish Integration Policy to a lesser extent helps refugees in finding employment in the Swedish labour market despite addressing language challenges and validation of skills and educational qualifications of the refugees. Based on secondary and primary data, many respondents found their employment through their social networks. It can therefore be concluded that social networks play the main role in refugee employability in the Swedish labour market which is often against policy and formal expectations. Refugees’ labour market integration opportunities are also determined by non -policy factors including stereotypes and prejudice.

Chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are a global concern. In recent decades, Canada has also experienced a major increase in immigration. Yet, a detailed profile of chronic disease and multimorbidity risk patterns across different immigrant populations has been lacking in Canada. The purpose of this dissertation is to identify knowledge gaps in the scientific literature on the development of chronic conditions and multimorbidity across immigrant populations in Ontario, using population-based immigrant and health data housed at ICES. The principal findings of this dissertation indicate that: 1. The risk of developing a chronic condition and multimorbidity was complex and varied by immigrants’ visa category and world region origin since: a. Refugees had the highest risk of developing a chronic condition and multimorbidity (two or more co-occurring chronic conditions) compared to long-term Ontario residents. b. There were differences in the risk of developing a chronic condition and multimorbidity by world regions of origin, when examined across different immigrant categories. 2. Hypertension and diabetes, and in combination with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease were the leading multimorbidity dyad and triad groups for all immigrant categories and long-term residents of Ontario. 3. The risk of developing a chronic condition increased among immigrants in more recent landing cohorts. The risk was highest among more recent refugees, and lower for family and economic class immigrants, when compared to long-term Ontario residents. These findings provide evidence to inform public health policy and planning by highlighting the complexity and heterogeneity of health outcomes across immigrant populations. Knowledge generated from this work will inform policies and evidence-based decision-making aimed to address the threat of chronic diseases and reduce health disparities.

Magister Legum - LLM / International law explains the significance of the right to a birth certificate,1 birth registration and what it means to be a national of a specific state.2 International law also explains how important the right to birth registration is and how it has historically been connected to the right to nationality.3 Legal scholars have over the years provided insights as to how international and national law can best address the right to birth registration.4 In South Africa the DHA does not issue birth certificates to children born to undocumented non-South Africans or documented non-South Africans with both parents holders of foreign documentation with the exception of non-South Africans with permanent residential permit.

This thesis explores the experiences of the health care system for East African refugees in Boston. I argue that refugee experiences lie on a spectrum ranging from inadequate to exceptional, and that by exploring what makes care both a negative and positive experience for refugees it may be possible to better serve the community. I conceptualize these experiences using the metaphor of a rope bridge: at the beginning, refugees are stuck in a formal structure that limits their movements and agency; throughout the middle, they are forced into a liminal space in which both their identity and experiences are made ambiguous; on the far end of the bridge; they have mitigated the deleterious effects of structural violence and liminality through practices involving selective acculturation, resilience, and self-verification. My participants reported being dissatisfied with the bureaucratic barriers to health care they encountered and with the power imbalances they felt when interacting with clinicians. They also spoke about the encounters they had with clinicians that made them feel listened to, cared for, and empowered. Much of the distinction between good and bad care relied on whether the patient felt like they were respected by their doctor, and whether they felt like they had a say in their own care and treatment. Due to the limited nature of this endeavor, further research is recommended on: 1) the role of memory in recovery; 2) liminality as it applies to the resettlement experience; 3) maintaining and bolstering the assets that allow refugees to mitigate the effects of structural violence; and 4) in what ways the health care system is working for refugees, and how those can be expanded upon.

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