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The Importance of Informal Interactions in the UK Syrian Refugee Resettlement

25.05.2021 , in ((Mobility + Informality)) , ((No Comments))

Syrian refugees in the UK have differing experiences of the Syrian Vulnerable Person’s Resettlement Scheme (SVPRS), depending on the locality of placement. As one participant to research on community integration put it, ‘Other Syrian people feel more comfortable, more confident, they’re living a different life.’ Contrasting his experience with that ...

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Immobilia

24.11.2020 , in ((Migration and Mobility in 2050)) , ((No Comments))

This is a repost of a blog that has first been published in the COMPAS Coronavirus and Mobility Forum on 15 May 2020.  No-one quite imagined it would turn out this way: a world segregated between Isolationists and Openers. But they were not divided by nation state borders – one ...

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