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Meredith, William H.; Cramer, Sheran L. – 1981
This report summarizes the response of 80 sponsors of Indochinese refugees in Nebraska to a survey designed to explore their sponsorship experience. Problem solving areas for sponsors and refugees are named as: acculturation, emotional adjustments, communication, health, housing, transportation, employment, and legal, financial and consumer…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Citizen Participation, Community Support
Peer reviewedFinnan, Christine Robinson – International Migration Review, 1981
Presents a model explaining how refugee communities help their members accept the downward occupational mobility usually associated with refugee resettlement. Describes how refugees shape an image of themselves consistent with the occupational role, while shaping an image of the role consistent with their self-image. (Author MK)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Support, Coping, Labor Problems
Peer reviewedSeller, Maxine Schwartz – Paedagogica Historica, 1996
Recounts a little known episode of World War II: the imprisonment of 28,000 anti-Nazi Jewish refugees in Great Britain. Explores how the refugees created a rich cultural and educational life out of these circumstances. They ran internment camp education programs, put on theatrical shows, and published a camp newspaper. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Civil Liberties, Community Development, Community Role


