Technologys Refuge

Author : Linda Leung
Publisher : UTS ePRESS
ISBN 13 : 1863654240
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology’s Refuge written by Linda Leung and published by UTS ePRESS. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the use of information communication technologies by refugees during flight, displacement and in settlement, this book examines the impact of Australia’s official policy of mandatory detention on how asylum seekers and refugees maintain links to diasporas and networks of support. Given the restricted contact with the world outside of the immigration detention centre, the book juxtaposes forms and processes of technology-mediated communication between institutionalised detention, with those of displacement and settlement. It finds that while there are obstacles to communication in situations of conflict and dislocation, asylum seekers and refugees are able to ‘make do’ with the technology options available to them in ways which were less constrained than in detention settings. The book also outlines how communication practices during the settlement process focus on learning new technologies, and repairing the disconnections with family members resulting from separation and detention.

Author : Linda Leung
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149850003X
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technologies of Refuge and Displacement written by Linda Leung and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technologies of Refuge and Displacement: Rethinking Digital Divides aims to theoretically and practically understand technology access and use from the perspective of those on the “wrong” side of the digital divide. Specifically, it examines refugees as a group that has received scant attention as technology users, despite their urgent need for technological access to sustain tenuous links to family and loved ones during displacement. It draws from over 100 interviews and surveys with refugees conducted from 2007 to 2011, utilizing this empirical data to interrogate well-known theories about technology and its users. In doing so, it seeks to rethink the popular model of “digital divide” and offer alternative ways of conceptualizing technology literacy and access. It examines how principles from design and IT industries can be applied to contexts with constrained availability, access, and affordability to provide technology services that accommodate users with limited technical and language literacies.

Author : Linda Leung
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838390420
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology's Refuge written by Linda Leung and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When asylum seekers and refugees are displaced, how do they use communication technologies to maintain links with friends and family during flight and forced migration? When they are detained, what role does technology play in the ways asylum seekers communicate with the 'outside'? How do asylum seekers and refugees appropriate and use new communication technologies whilst establishing themselves in a new country? This monograph presents the findings of a qualitative pilot research study that sought to answer these questions. It provides an insight into how asylum seekers use communication technologies during conflict, flight, detention and resettlement, to maintain links with their families and friends back home, with diaspora from their country of origin and with communities in the country where they are seeking asylum. It is also one of the first studies to examine how communication with the outside world occurs in immigration detention centres and to document asylum seeker perspectives on the communication restrictions encountered there.

Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030777273X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refuge written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

Author : Stephan Bauman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802495060
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Refuge written by Stephan Bauman and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of Christianity Today's Award of Merit in Politics and Public Life, 2016 ------ What will rule our hearts: fear or compassion? We can’t ignore the refugee crisis—arguably the greatest geo-political issue of our time—but how do we even begin to respond to something so massive and complex? In Seeking Refuge, three experts from World Relief, a global organization serving refugees, offer a practical, well-rounded, well-researched guide to the issue. Who are refugees and other displaced peoples? What are the real risks and benefits of receiving them? How do we balance compassion and security? Drawing from history, public policy, psychology, many personal stories, and their own unique Christian worldview, the authors offer a nuanced and compelling portrayal of the plight of refugees and the extraordinary opportunity we have to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Author : Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787353176
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refuge in a Moving World written by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement. The volume combines critical reflections on the complexities of conceptualizing processes and experiences of (forced) migration, with detailed analyses of these experiences in contemporary and historical settings from around the world. Through interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies – including participatory research, poetic and spatial interventions, ethnography, theatre, discourse analysis and visual methods – the volume documents the complexities of refugees’ and migrants’ journeys. This includes a particular focus on how people inhabit and negotiate everyday life in cities, towns, camps and informal settlements across the Middle East and North Africa, Southern and Eastern Africa, and Europe.

Author : Isabel Truesdell Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tajin Totonac: History, subsistence, shelter and technology written by Isabel Truesdell Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guan-Yuan Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9813291397
Total Pages : 1061 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Proceedings of 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology written by Guan-Yuan Wu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features selected papers from the 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2018), held in Taipei, Taiwan. Covering the entire spectrum of fire safety science, it focuses on research on fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, risk analysis and structural engineering, as well as other topics. Presenting advanced scientific insights, the book introduces and advances new ideas in all areas of fire safety science. As such it is a valuable resource for academic researchers, fire safety engineers, and regulators of fire, construction and safety authorities. Further it provides new ideas for more efficient fire protection.

Author : Linda Leung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472448101
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technologies of Refuge and Displacement written by Linda Leung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores access to and use of technology from the perspective of those on the âe~wrongâe(tm) side of the digital divide, examining refugees as a group that has received scant attention as technology users, in spite of their need for technology as a means to maintaining links with family during displacement. Drawing from interview and survey material with over a hundred refugees, the author interrogates well-known theories regarding technology and users of technology, in order to rethink the taken-for-granted model of the âe~digital divideâe(tm) and offer alternative ways of conceptualizing technological literacy and access. With its focus on communities and situations in which there is high need but little availability and difficult of access to relevant ICTs, Technologies of Refuge and Displacement asks how it might it be possible to design technology services that are appropriate for and inclusive of groups such as refugees. Exploring the ways in which principles from design and the IT industries can be applied to contexts in which availability, access and affordability are restricted, this volume investigates the possibilities that exist for providing services that accommodate users with limited technical and language literacies. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration, science and technology studies, digital divides and refugee organisation and advocacy.

Author : Noah Levine
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062123092
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refuge Recovery written by Noah Levine and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path into a proven and systematic approach to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction—an indispensable alternative to the 12-step program. While many desperately need the help of the 12-step recovery program, the traditional AA model's focus on an external higher power can alienate people who don't connect with its religious tenets. Refuge Recovery is a systematic method based on Buddhist principles, which integrates scientific, non-theistic, and psychological insight. Viewing addiction as cravings in the mind and body, Levine shows how a path of meditative awareness can alleviate those desires and ease suffering. Refuge Recovery includes daily meditation practices, written investigations that explore the causes and conditions of our addictions, and advice and inspiration for finding or creating a community to help you heal and awaken. Practical yet compassionate, Levine's successful Refuge Recovery system is designed for anyone interested in a non-theistic approach to recovery and requires no previous experience or knowledge of Buddhism or meditation.