The Effect of Engineering Design-based STEM Activities on the Refugee Students’ Sense of School Belonging by Sema Altun Yalçın, Şeyma Güvenç Günsel, Zehra Çakır

“…The research sample consists of 32 Syrian refugee students studying in the 7th grade in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. …”
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Three legal requirements for the EU-Turkey deal: An interview with JAMES HATHAWAY by James C. Hathaway

“…Hathaway (Michigan), gives some preliminary indications on the legality of the emerging EU-Turkey agreement on Syrian refugee resettlement. </p> …”
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Whole-exome sequencing identifies a homozygous pathogenic variant in TAT in a girl with palmoplantar keratoderma by Fady Hannah-Shmouni, Lauren MacNeil, Irene Lara-Corrales, Elena Pope, Peter Kannu, Neal Sondheimer

“…In this report, we identified tyrosinemia type II on whole-exome sequencing in a 7-year-old Syrian refugee that presented with PPK. Dietary therapy helped improve her overall symptoms.…”
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Lebanon: mental health system reform and the Syrian crisis by Elie Karam, Rabih El Chammay, Sami Richa, Wadih Naja, John Fayyad, Walid Ammar

“…The findings point to an increase in mental health disorders in the Syrian refugee population, which now numbers more than 1 million.…”
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Legal Requirements for the EU-Turkey Refugee Agreement: A Reply to J. Hathaway by Kay Hailbronner

“…<p>There are many open questions and objections against the EU-Turkey deal on an agreement whose details are yet to be negotiated to manage the Syrian refugee crisis. In particular on the reciprocity part: could the agreement as an easily available tool by Turkey to blackmail visa liberalization and progress in the EU Accession negotiations? …”
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Grandmothers Behind the Scenes by Rula Kahil, Maleeha Iqbal, Neda Maghbouleh

“…This article adds to scholarship about the well-being of newcomers admitted via the Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative through a focus on grandmothers resettled within their multigenerational families. …”
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Ordres de paix et ordres de guerre à la frontière syrienne by Leïla Vignal

“…These transformations result from a web of factors: the internal territorial, political and military fragmentation; the various external interventions into the conflict; the importance of the Syrian refugee communities in Syria’s neighboring countries, and the changing border policies of the latter; the international legal framework that organizes the humanitarian response to the conflict. …”
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Refugee crisis representation on German online press: the case of Aylan Kurdi by David Ramírez Plascencia

“…Abstract This paper is focused in examining the digital news representation of Syrian refugee crisis and the conformation of the reader’s opinions in Germany. …”
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Protecting Refugee Students’ Wellbeing After Research by Ozlem Erden-Basaran

“…This study examines how Syrian refugee children’s participation in an ethnographic study affected their well-being, using the premises of attachment theory and listening as care. …”
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Trauma-Related Psychopathology in Iraqi Refugee Youth Resettled in the United States, and Comparison With an Ethnically Similar Refugee Sample: A Cross-Sectional Study by Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Luay Haddad, Suzanne Manji, Shervin Assari, Shervin Assari, Cynthia Arfken, Arash Javanbakht

“…Youth provided self-reported severity of posttraumatic stress and anxiety symptoms; symptom severity was then compared with an existing sample of 135 Syrian refugee youth to explore whether refugee youth of different nationalities experience the same effects of warzone exposure and forced migration. …”
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Corpses and numbers: the portrayal of black African refugees in It Will Be Chaos by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo by Aghogho Akpome

“…Though I focus especially on one of the main protagonists, Aregai Mehari, who survived the shipwreck, I also consider a significant difference in the portrayal of Aregai and that of a Syrian refugee family who are the film’s other main protagonists. …”
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La resistenza culturale nel Libano contemporaneo. Le sfide di artiste locali e profughe by Estella Carpi, Stefano Fogliata

“…Based on interviews conducted during 2018, this article examines the challenges that Lebanese citizen, Palestinian and Syrian refugee “culture-makers” – primarily artists – need to face in the Lebanese context, and how such challenges differ from or overlap with one another. …”
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The International Humanitarian Response to the Refugee Crisis Along the Balkan Route in the View of Strategies of International Organizations by Latifi Veton

“…Being one of the largest movements of displaced people through European borders since World War Two, the Syrian refugee crisis of 2015 and 2016, tested the coordination of the states and international organizations, and as well as the strategies for response of the latter to such enormous fluxes of displaced people along the Balkan corridor. …”
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The educational experiences of Syrian women in countries of safety/asylum by Rasem Ibesh, Wael Ahmad, Rachid Chikhou, Razan Jumah, Hayat Sankar, Allen Thurston

“…Interviews were conducted with 24 refugee women, and the findings presented to a user focus group of Syrian refugee women. Findings indicate that language and finance are key barriers to women fulfilling their educational potential. …”
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Corpses and numbers: the portrayal of black African refugees in It Will Be Chaos by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo by Aghogho Akpome

“…Though I focus especially on one of the main protagonists, Aregai Mehari, who survived the shipwreck, I also consider a significant difference in the portrayal of Aregai and that of a Syrian refugee family who are the film’s other main protagonists. …”
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“It’s Just Not What We See” by Christine Mayor

“…This qualitative case study focused on one school district in a mid-sized city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, examining perspectives on existing trauma training held for teachers who work with Syrian refugee students. Results from seven teacher interviews suggest that social workers must be careful not to slot teachers into pre-existing general trauma training, but must design specific trainings that consider the setting, developmental needs, and forms of trauma unique to war, displacement, and resettlement stressors in order for the trainings to be most helpful to teachers. …”
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The Iconic Image in a Digital Age by Mortensen Mette, Allan Stuart, Peters Chris

“…This article investigates selected newspapers’ editorial mediations over contrasting perceptions regarding the significance of a controversial set of ‘iconic’ news photographs, namely images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian refugee, whose drowned corpse washed ashore in September, 2015. …”
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Borders Unbound: Cultural and Political Borders in Lawrence Osborne’s Beautiful Animals by Mehmet Ali Çelikel

“…The American citizen Samantha and the British citizen Naomi befriend each other during their summer break when they find Faoud, a Syrian refugee washed on the shores of the island. Faoud turns into their summer project. …”
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THE EUROPEAN UNION VERSUS THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by George GRUIA

“…This situation, in conjunction with the Syrian refugee crisis, with the political crisis on the government formation in Germany, with the Brexit, with the establishment of Austria's controversial government, the sanction of Poland by the Council of Europe and, last but not least, with the problems facing the formation of the new inland government may and should be analyzed together and is one of the purposes of this study, which will be partial analyzed and presented in this article. …”
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The Sandbox Model: A Novel Approach to Iterating while Implementing an Emergency Education Program in Lebanon during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Michèle Boujikian, Alice Carter, Katy Jordan

“…Jusoor's Refugee Education Program helps Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon integrate back into formal schooling. …”
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