Browsing The Rosemarie Rogers Working Paper Series by Title
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Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Tsunami and Tsunami Interventions on Conflicts in Sri Lanka and Aceh/Indonesia
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2006-06)The objective of this field-based research was to assess the impact of natural disasters and disaster interventions on protracted intra-state conflicts and to provide insight for designing and implementing disaster ... -
Connectedness, Social Support and Mental Health in Adolescents Displaced by the War in Chechnya
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2004-02)This study presents an exploratory, cross-sectional investigation of factors associated with internalizing emotional and behavioral problems (anxiety/depression, emotional withdrawal, and somatic complaints) in a sample ... -
Culture Production and Social Networks: Case Studies of Local Churches in Former Refugee and Displaced Persons Communities in Nicaragua and El Salvador
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2005-09)This paper investigates how culture is produced and transmitted within communities populated by former Central American refugees and internally displaced peoples. Local churches in these communities produce culture and ... -
Determinants of IDP Voice--Four Cases from Sierra Leone and Afghanistan
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2005-08)Using an interview-based case study methodology, this paper investigates how four groups of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan and Sierra Leone engage in existing frameworks of local governance with the aim ... -
Diasporas and Dollars: Transnational Ties and the Transformation of Cuba
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2003-02)For many Third World countries, remittances are becoming a more important source of funds than foreign aid, bank loans, and foreign investment, as families find their own transnational solutions to limited homeland economic ... -
Disconnected from Discourse: Women's Radio Listening in Rural Samangan, Afghanistan
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2004-02-15)Finding and maintaining good access to information is one of the most important coping skills for many Afghans in insecure and rapidly shifting situations. Returning refugee populations face deeply rooted structural problems ... -
Divided They Conquer: The Success of Armenian Ethnic Lobbies in the United States
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2002-08)The end of the Cold War has sparked considerable academic and policy debates on the direction and aims of US foreign policy. One aspect of that debate has centered on the role of ethnic groups in influencing foreign policy ... -
The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2003-07)Social scientists doing fieldwork in humanitarian situations often face a dual imperative: research should be both academically sound and policy relevant. We argue that much of the current research on forced migration is ... -
Engineered Migration as a Coercive Instrument: The 1994 Cuban Balseros Crisis
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2002-02)This paper presents a case study of the August 1994 Cuban “balseros”—i.e. rafters—crisis, commonly known as Mariel II, during which over 35,000 Cubans fled the island and headed towards Florida. This paper argues that ... -
The Evolving Relationship between the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees and the Palestinian Authority
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 1999-08)The creation of Israel in 1948 led to the destruction of the Palestinian entity and the dispersion of approximately 750,000 Palestinians into neighboring Arab and into Western countries. The Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and ... -
Gender-Based Violence Research Initiatives in Refugee, Internally Displaced, and Post-Conflict Settings: Lessons Learned
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How Ethno-Religious Identity Influences the Living Conditions of Hazara and Pashtun Refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2002-08)This paper examines how living conditions and settlement patterns differ between two ethnic groups belonging to the Afghan refugee population residing in Peshawar, Pakistan. Evidence from Peshawar suggests that the Pashtun, ... -
Ice Skating and Island Hopping: Refugees, Integration, and Access in a Segregated City
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2003-07)This paper analyzes the role of the environmental image in the process of integration for refugees living in Stockholm, Sweden. The research uses techniques that the urbanist Kevin Lynch developed to question residents of ... -
Illegal Immigration from Bangladesh to India: The Emerging Conflicts
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2005-11)Population movements have been a constant feature of the evolution of human civilisation. For a variety of reasons – social, political, economic, natural and climatic -migration occurs within the geographical limits of ... -
International Influences in Transition Societies: The Effect of UNHCR and Other IOs on Citizenship Policies in Ukraine
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2000-08)This paper analyzes the effects of international organizations on Ukrainian citizenship policies in the post-1991 period. As over 250,000 Crimean Tatars repatriated to Ukraine in the late 1980s and early 1990s after being ... -
Life in Khartoum: Probing Forced Migration and Cultural Change Among War-Displaced Southern Sudanese Women
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2004-08)This report is based on ethnographic data that I gathered in 2001-2003 to document the adjustment experiences of Southern Sudanese displaced women in one of the major shantytowns in the capital city, Khartoum. These women ... -
Management of Internal Displacement in Nigeria
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2006-10)This research examined the management of IDP’s (internally displaced persons) in Nigeria based on the February/May 2000 communal conflict at Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, as an example and a focus for the study. The research ... -
Militarized Refugee Populations: Humanitarian Challenges in the Former Yugoslavia
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 199-08)This paper examines the conditions under which refugee flows cause conflict to spread across borders. In order to develop propositions, the paper studies a group of Bosnian Muslim refugees who formed an army to retake their ... -
Missed Opportunities: The Role of the International Community in the Return of the Rwandan Refugees from Eastern Zaire, July 1994 - December 1996
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 1998-06)July 1994, the horror of the genocide in Rwanda was overtaken by pictures of an unprecedented exodus of Rwandan Hutus, led into Zaire by the iron and bloody hands of their leaders. The refugee emergency phase that started ... -
North Korea: Scenarios from the Perspective of Refugee Displacement
(Inter-University Committee on International Migration, 2002-02)Some 10,000 to 300,000 citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are currently reported to be living illegally in the Northeastern provinces of China. Based on bilateral treaties between the two countries, ...
