Essays about: "Palestinian refugee"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 16 essays containing the words Palestinian refugee.

1. 11. The Road to Resilience : Challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in the protection and empowerment of Palestinian refugee children

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Silvia Cano Diaz; [2017]
   Keywords : Palestinian refugee children; protection; empowerment; vulnerability; resilience.;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to study what are the current protection challenges faced by Palestinian refugee children and their families in the context of the protracted crisis in the occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, this study will also look at how different factors influence on children's well-being, enabling or impeding to build their resilience under the ongoing adversarial circumstances. READ MORE

3. 12. "The woman was born to do activism” - A minor field study of Palestinian refugee women's activism in a Lebanese refugee camp

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan

   Author : Sara Ebenfelt; Natalia Velasquez Ulloa; [2017]
   Keywords : Palestinian refugee women; empowerment; activism; social identity; resistance; Lebanon; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate how Palestinian refugee women in refugee camps perceive themselves as actors who affect and influence their lives and communities. Research shows it is a topic that is not often discussed or highlighted in today’s discourse about refugees. READ MORE

4. 13. Friend or foe – A qualitative field study on intergroup relations among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Casper Törnblom; [2017]
   Keywords : Intergroup Threat Theory; Lebanon; Syria; PRS; PRL collective identity; refugee; symbolic threat; realistic threat; Palestinian; conflict; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : As the world becomes more global so does the conflicts and refugee movements. Whilst many have studied the tensions between the communities of host nations and refugee groups this thesis aims to explore what type of tension and conflict that occurs when one refugee group hosts another. READ MORE

5. 14. The Palestinian Refugee Problem: Is there Any Hope for a Sustainable Solution?

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Zakaria Mohamad; [2010]
   Keywords : Palestinian refugee; Israel-Palestine; Right of Return; Repatriation; negotiations;

   Abstract : This thesis is an attempt to find a sustainable solution for the Palestinian refugee problem. It analyzes the Palestinian refugee case and how different actors in the Palestine-Israeli conflict view it. READ MORE

6. 15. Restricted Freedom: Depressive Experiences and Gender Identities among Female Palestinian Adolescent Refugees

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Jenny Gustafsson; [2010]
   Keywords : gender; depression; Palestinian refugees; adolescence; refugee camp; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to provide a complementary understanding to depression among female adolescent refugees through facilitating a feminist social constructionist approach emphasizing the girls’ own subjective experiences and understandings. The research questions dealt with how female adolescent refugees understand the discourses of femininity in their specific context and how they feel and act in regards of these discourses, what meaning female adolescent refugees put into their depressive experiences, how they make sense of these experiences, under what circumstances they are living and how they think these influence their well-being. READ MORE