Feasibility and acceptability of Problem Management Plus with Emotional Processing (PM+EP) for refugee youth living in the Netherlands: study protocol by Cansu Alozkan Sever, Pim Cuijpers, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Richard A. Bryant, Katie S. Dawson, Emily A. Holmes, Trudy Mooren, Marie Louise Norredam, Marit Sijbrandij

“…Background: Refugee youth experience hardships associated with exposure to trauma in their homelands and during and after displacement, which results in higher rates of common mental disorders. …”
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Written Exercises: Ancestral Magic and Emergent Intellectuals in Mia Couto, Lhoussain Azergui and Dorota Masłowska by Ewa Łukaszyk

“…By the notion of trans-colonial, I understand the opposition against new kinds of symbolic violence that emerged after the end of the colonial period; here this new form of oppression is related to the concept of national unity – an artificial construct that leaves no place for a dualism or pluralism of cultural reality (two shores of the Zambezi river, Arab and Berber dualism in Morocco, “small homelands” in Poland). The young heroes of the novels grasp the pen in order to break through the falseness or the taboos created by the fathers, establishing, at the same time, the relation of solidarity with the world of the grandfathers. …”
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Investigating the contribution and effect of cash transfers to household food security of rural smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa by Nyarai M. Mujuru, Ajuruchukwu Obi, Lelethu Mdoda, Syden Mishi, Mahali E. Lesala

“…Using household survey data, the study seeks to investigate the role played by cash transfers on household productive capacities and food security status within the context of a small pace of transition from homestead to irrigated farming in the former homelands of the Eastern Cape Province. The lower bound poverty line of R 758 (on average $57 USD), was used to determine household food security status. …”
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Toward a sustained recovery of the lodging sector: a management path to lessen the Corona Variants upshots by Ola Abdel Moneim Emara, Hazem Tawfik Halim, Mohamed Samy El-Deeb, Yasser Tawfik Halim

“…Egypt has relatively benefited in the first half of 2021 when many Europeans escaped the lower temperature in winter in their homelands opting warm holiday destinations. The primary readings also expect the continuity in this increase. …”
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Becoming ‘cosmo’: displacement, development and disguise in Ongata Rongai by Landau, LB

“…Its success depends on demonizing discourses of indigeneity while embracing ideas of ethnic homelands beyond the city. By acting as a foil to a growing literature on the ethnicization of land and space in Africa, this article demonstrates the need to understand spatially constructed subjectivities as responses to supra-local social and political practice. …”

Comparative analysis of resistance and constancy themes in the poems of "Shafigh Habib" and "Salman Harati" by Razieh Karamad, hosein shamsabadi, Seyyed madi Nori keyzegani

“…However, clarity has not always been the direction of these two poets; yet, the political environment and verbal aesthetics have adorned their poetry with symbolic expression to enable them to offer their intended themes to the audience in a suitable manner.   4.Conclusion The homelands of Shafiq Habib and Salman Harati have always been involved with wars and repelling violation, resulting in the themes of resistance literature to become a main component in their poetry. …”
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El proceso de integración a la sociedad cubana de inmigrantes exsoviéticas. Estudio de casos. / The process of integration into Cuban society of ex-Soviet immigrants. Case study. by Margarita Rodríguez Chabán, María Ofelia Rodríguez Soriano

“…In summary, although it´s not a linear process, the women interviewed show a very positive perception about the acceptance they have received from Cuban society, and because they haven´t experienced any marginalization, rejection or exclusion in this country, which most of them recognize as one of their two homelands. / RESUMEN El presente artículo constituye una aproximación al proceso de integración a la sociedad cubana de inmigrantes exsoviéticas que arribaron a Cuba entre 1960 y 1990, y residen actualmente en La Habana. …”
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Multiculturalism and Globalization: A Comment by Janja Žitnik

“…The ‘new economy’ which, in terms of the standard of living, has divided the countries of the world to a higher degree than any previous economic processes, needs economic inequality as well as international economic migrations because it needs inexpensive labor (i.e. both, immigrant workers and those who have stayed in their underdeveloped homelands) to sustain itself. If the countries of the world were more equal in economic respect, they would be more equal in social and cultural respects, there would be far less international economic migration, migrants would not constitute extreme social strata, and their national affiliation would not be such a controversial issue as it is now. …”
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A study of the intermediate Early Bronze-Middle Bronze Age in Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon by Prag, K, Kay Prag

“…</p> <p>The direct links for the "innovating features", dated c.2350 B.C. in Transjordan, are found in the ED III traditions of the central Euphrates region, from Mari, Til Barsip, Harran, Amarna and Hammam, and it is concluded that people who were associated, but not perhaps directly part of that urban tradition, migrated south from their homelands following the campaigns of Lugalzagesi, the Akkadian expansion in north Mesopotamia and campaigns of Sargon.…”

Ancestral Tourism: A Novel Market of Isfahan Tourism by Neda Torabi Farsani, Leila Mirghadr, Hossein Sadeghi Shahdani

“…Travelling to the ancestral homelands: The aspirations and experiences of a UK Caribbean community. …”
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