Promoting Intercultural Understanding in Digital Learning Environments: Empowering Educators with Strategies
INTRODUCTION In a digitalized and interconnected global learning setting, the promotion of diversity, inclusivity, and effective...
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Krysia Wharton
Jul 23 min
The Election, Refugees & Asylum Seekers
On Friday 7th June, leading figures from seven of the main UK political parties debated a variety of issues on live TV that people should...
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Krysia Wharton
May 43 min
The History of Refugees
This blog post provides a very brief summary of the history of refugees between the early 20th Century and the modern day (a previous...
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Krysia Wharton
Mar 22 min
Refugee Women
Although any person of any gender can be a refugee, this already awful experience can be made even worse simply by being a woman. This...
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Zainab Mahmood
Jan 33 min
Navigating Multilingualism: Migrant Students' Linguistic and Cultural Identities in the Classroom
Even though migration has been a longstanding historical phenomenon, recent years have witnessed an unparalleled surge in refugees,...
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Krysia Wharton
Nov 4, 20232 min
The 1951 Refugee Convention
We have mentioned on a few occasions recently that the 1951 Refugee Convention is often referred to as ‘the cornerstone of refugee...
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Krysia Wharton
Sep 16, 20233 min
The History of Refugees
This blog post provides a very brief summary of the history of refugees between ancient times and the early 20th Century. It includes...
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Krysia Wharton
Aug 5, 20233 min
LGBTQI Asylum Seekers and Refugees
On 14th June, we posted about Micro Rainbow, an organisation that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI)...
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Krysia Wharton
Jun 23, 20232 min
The 75th Anniversary of Windrush
Yesterday marked 75 years since the Empire Windrush ship arrived in Essex. This is one of the earliest and largest examples of people...
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Krysia Wharton
Apr 25, 20233 min
What do religions teach about refugees?
With 84% of the world’s population identifying as religious (Hackett & McClendon), the teachings of religious texts should naturally have...
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RefuNet
Mar 17, 20233 min
'My journey started on a boat': Ke Huy Quan at The Oscars
Ke Huy Quan's Speech at the Oscars 2023 At the 95th Academy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles this week, Everything Everywhere All at Once...
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Krysia Wharton
Dec 14, 20223 min
Refugees from a Holiday Destination?
The Kurds are an ethnic group of people originally from a West Asian territory called Kurdistan which is made up of parts of Turkey,...
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Bethany Holden
Nov 3, 20222 min
The People Behind the Numbers: Challenging the Home Secretary's Language.
On Monday, Suella Braverman claimed that people are “pretending [the people who arrive in the UK in small boats] are all refugees in...
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RefuNet
Oct 21, 20222 min
Who is Giorgia Meloni? Italy’s New Far-Right PM and her Stance on Migration.
Giorgia Meloni is the figurehead of a newly elected extreme right-wing government that is vowing to crack down on many forms of...
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Krysia Wharton
Sep 19, 20223 min
What is our new Prime Minister’s stance on refugees?
On 6th September, Liz Truss became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This means she is in charge of the policy and decisions of the...
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Krysia Wharton
Jul 22, 20223 min
Understanding Trauma as Experienced by Refugees and Asylum Seekers
‘Trauma refers to the way that some distressing events are so extreme or intense that they overwhelm a person’s ability to cope,...
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Sorcha
Jun 28, 20224 min
Will the new refugee act spark any changes in Kenya?
Kenya hosts the second largest population of refugees in Africa, with most refugees fleeing from neighbouring countries Somalia and South...
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Krysia Wharton
May 15, 20222 min
The ‘Consistently Positive Fiscal Contributions’ of Immigrants to the UK
At RefuNet, we love sharing ‘myth busters’ with our social media followers in order to disprove common misconceptions surrounding...
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RefuNet
Apr 20, 20222 min
The Proliferation of Human Misery – RefuNet is against the Rwanda Deal
By now you may have already heard about the UK’s plans to offshore refugees and asylum seekers through an outsourcing arrangement that...
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Krysia Wharton
Mar 15, 20222 min
‘A Shocking Distinction’: Europe’s Solidarity with European vs non-European Refugees
It was awful to read about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the news, and then to see the catastrophic events that have followed, with...
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