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-campus pilot with 100 Syrian participants to a nationwide programme reaching more than 3000 young adults in five centres across Lebanon over six years. According to the WFP, the DST is one of its initial Empowerment in Action (EMPACT) programmes that ‘connects food-insecure youth to the global digital economy’ ( WFP, 2020 ) leveraging on it to ‘build the resilience of urban, displaced, and landless or land-poor households’. 1 The location of each centre
In 1974 the British Board of Film Censors refused to grant a certificate to the Swedish documentary More About the Language of Love (Mera ur Kärlekens språk, 1970, Torgny Wickman, Sweden: Swedish Film Production), due to its explicit sexual content. Nevertheless, the Greater London Council granted the film an ‘X’ certificate so that it could be shown legally in cinemas throughout the capital. This article details the trial against the cinema manager and owners, after the film was seized by police under the charge of obscenity, and explores the impact on British arguments around film censorship, revealing a range of attitudes towards sex and pornography. Drawing on archival records of the trial, the widespread press coverage as well as participants’ subsequent reflections, the article builds upon Elisabet Björklund’s work on Swedish sex education films and Eric Schaefer’s scholarship on Sweden’s ‘sexy nation’ reputation to argue that the Swedish films’ transnational distribution complicated tensions between educational and exploitative intentions in a particularly British culture war over censorship.
inclusion (i.e. incorporation into existing, mainstream financial systems on the same terms as host populations). In response to various exclusions, refugees accepted jobs illegally, registered for financial accounts with borrowed IDs or purchased PayPal accounts online. Sometimes these behaviours are cited as creative, resilient workarounds ( Shepherd et al. , 2020 ; Omeje and Mwangi, 2014 ), but they often increased research participants
five geographical locations: Rumbek, Torit, Malualkon, Bor and Kapoeta (Lakes State, Eastern Equatoria State, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, Jonglei State and Eastern Equatoria State, respectively). These locations represent priorities for SCI’s work in South Sudan. In addition, some key informants were from South Sudan’s capital, Juba. The quantitative survey was designed using the Likert scale structure, inviting participants to respond to a series of statements by answering if they strongly agree, agree, are neutral, disagree or strongly disagree. Based on
that all individuals from refugee backgrounds were poor and/or illiterate in their countries of origin. More importantly, she demonstrates that, through their engagement in digital technology, they are not passive subjects; they continuously exercise their agency. Leung meticulously documents the her participants’ journeys from their countries of origin to their detention or resettlement in Australia. Throughout the book, she provides a vivid personal account of her interaction with them. She
’ are said to explain Rohingya women’s limited mobility and men’s role as income earners ( Gerhardt et al. , 2020 : 7), without explanation of these norms. Among refugees in Tigray, despite research participants citing lack of money and limited availability of services as reasons for not accessing sexual and reproductive health services, tradition and religion are listed as barriers ( Habte and Afework, 2021 : 20). Assumptions about gendered vulnerability also invoke fixed
the ‘ideal participants’ tend to break down along the humanitarian/development divide, with the former advocating for those most in need of long-term income sustainability and the latter more focused on participants most likely to succeed in the digital economy (INGO employee interview, 2019). Many initiatives end up focusing on the latter with the result, as the NRC and International Trade Centre’s Refugee Empowerment Skills Initiative (RESI) discussed in
roundtable closes this issue with Bertrand Taithe, Mickaël le Paih and Fabrice Weissman reflecting on archiving and knowledge production in humanitarian missions. This roundtable takes two instances from Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) operational contexts in Cambodia and Malawi to inform a discussion on the role of history in rethinking humanitarian aid. Facilitated by long-standing research collaborations, the participants discuss attempts to prevent institutional amnesia in MSF’s operational
was 61, including digital refugee workers and skills training participants, digital labour platforms as well as experts at aid organisations and their local partners. This applied project was co-designed with the ILO and the three countries were selected in part because they have been a focal point for national and international efforts that seek to leverage the development opportunities posed by the digital economy in Africa. The data behind this article therefore
interviewees to protect their privacy and anonymity. In some cases, intimate details contained in the responses were modified to reduce the potential for interviewees to be identifiable. In this paper, we use ‘volunteers’ (in certain cases ‘interviewees’ or ‘respondents’) to refer to peer support group leaders, while we use the word ‘participants’ for other members (attendees) of the support groups. Findings Drawing on qualitative data collected from interviews with peer support group participants, we examine indicators of gender norms transformation with regard to