Sexuality and integration: a case of gay Iranian refugees’ collective memories and integration practices in Canada
ABSTRACT During the past two decades, Canada has accepted hundreds of LGBT asylum seekers, including gay Iranian men. Sociologists of sexualities and migration have yet to study this group as immigrants whose sexualities play a central role in their social interactions, immigration, and integration practices. Taking integration as a category of practice and relying on … Continue reading Sexuality and integration: a case of gay Iranian refugees’ collective memories and integration practices in Canada →
Scalabrini Centre Report – Toil and Trouble De Doorns
On the morning of 17 November 2009, Zimbabwean residents were ordered by the community of De Doorns in the Western Cape to leave the informal settlements in De Doorns. Fearing violence and aware of their precarious physical safety, they fled. This had come in the wake of a prior violent displacement of 68 members 3 … Continue reading Scalabrini Centre Report – Toil and Trouble De Doorns →
Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in South Africa: Lessons Learned Following Attacks on Foreign Nationals in May 2008
This report, commissioned by Oxfam GB, evaluates the humanitarian response to the internal displacement of non-nationals in the Gauteng and Western Cape provinces of South Africa in May 2008. Both government and civil society responses are examined with the aim of learning lessons for future disaster management and increase the effectiveness of future emergency responses in the … Continue reading Humanitarian Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons in South Africa: Lessons Learned Following Attacks on Foreign Nationals in May 2008 →
