Accommodation, empowerment and disinvestment—Typical second‐language learning trajectories of Syrian refugees in Germany

Syrian refugees and information precarity

This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant inform...

Understanding the Role of ICTs in Promoting Social Inclusion: the Case of Syrian Refugees in Germany

With a number of refugees around the world reaching disastrous proportions, there is a growing pressure to understand which measures are effective in promoting social inclusion of refugees in their new homes. Considering an exemplary IT-savviness of the current refugee wave, there is a growing hope in the power of Social Media and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in suppo...

Global assistance in caring for Syrian refugees.

Main text In 2013, while I was the Minister of Health and Minister of Environment in Jordan, the majority of the neonates at neonate unit at the Mafraq Maternity and Neonate Hospital in northern Jordan were borne to Syrian women (Syrian refugees needed up to 18 of the 20 beds most of the time during that year). This makes me agree with the work of Fuat Emre Canpolat et al. which concluded that ...

Syrian refugees desperately need our help.

Mental health and psychosocial needs of Syrian refugees and the role of Syrian non-governmental organisations

Almost 5 million Syrians have been registered as refugees since the conflict started in 2011. Their mental health and psychosocial needs continue to grow as the situation at home gets more complicated. Syrian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and mental health professionals have been offering their support to help meet these needs. They have set up various centres and teams on the ground th...