Refugees & Humiliation:
How Dignity is Degraded When You Are a Refugee, or a Displaced or Stateless Person
This is a large research project with 18 research teams of young scholars and their academic advisors, that was planed to be conducted in cooperation with the United Nations University. However, due to lack of funding, much of this research could not yet be realized. So far, Mari Otterlei Blikom has carried out her planned research, and Katrine Fangen is continuously working on her research.
For all the other projects that you see listed further down, we are currently looking for funding, and kindly encourage foundations and donors to consider funding this research, either as a whole, or in parts. We are grateful for your support and advice!
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 states that 'all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.'
In this research project we ask: What happens when rights and dignity are violated? What are the long-term effects? What is, for example, the long-term effect on people who are born, live and die as refugees, in refugee camps? What are the inter-generational effects? How are second and third generation refugees affected?
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original plan for the end product was to produce an edited book, Refugees and Humiliation, which was envisaged to be finished within a biannual time frame, with the following contents:
a) conceptual chapters
b) cases provided by our research teams (already with relevance to policy)
c) a policy brief that summarises the insights.
Please see here a longer, more comprehensive version of this page.
Research Host & Management
Research Team
Projects
Material & Links
Research Host & Managemet
Evelin Gerda Lindner, M.D., Ph.D. (Dr. med.), Ph.D. (Dr. psychol.)
Founding Manager of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS)
Paul A. Stokes, Ph.D., College Lecturer
Department of Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Dublin
Linda Hartling, Ph.D., Associate Director
Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College, Boston, USA
Moira R. Rogers, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literature, EMU, Virginia, USA
Maggie O'Neill, Lecturer
Criminology and Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK
Alicia Cabezudo, Professor and Peace / Human Rights Educator
Educating Cities Latin America
Barbara Harrell-Bond, Professor
Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt
Trevor L. Ballance, Lecturer and Researcher
Josai International University, Japan
Jack A. Goldstone, Professor
George Mason University School of Public Policy, kindly offers to help us present our research, when it is finished, in the Washington area
See pictures of meetings
Research Team
General HumanDHS
Academic Advisors
Refugees and Humiliation Project (alphabetical)
Terrorism and Humiliation Project (alphabetical)
Projects
Dignity-Humiliation in the Case of Internally Displaced Persons in Latin America: The Examples of Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Mexico |
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Understanding the Lives of Refugees Living in Exile: A Core Social Motive Approach |
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Otterlei Blikom, Mari (2006) |
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An Existential Discourse Analysis of Humiliation as Reported by Iraqi Refugees in the UK and Denmark |
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Humiliation and Human Strength: Stories of African-Spanish Migrations |
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Refugees and Humiliation: The Legacy of Violence and Inaction in the Great Lakes Region. The Uganda-Rwanda Scenario |
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Afro-Hitlerism: History of Cultural Humiliation in the Great-Lakes |
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Refugees’ Psychological Functioning in Cameroon: The Case of Chadian or Central African Adults of Yaoundé |
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The Dual Humiliation of Female Refugees by Sexually Violent, Gender-Based Acts |
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Resilience, Humiliation and Adulthood Sexual Abuse: Understanding the Psychology of Violence among Sudanese Refugees living in Uganda |
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Refugees from the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa & Humiliation |
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Iraqi Refugees in Syria and Jordan & Humiliation (pending funding!) |
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African Refugees and Humiliation: Comparative Study on Refugees in Africa and in Europe |
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Frustration, Humiliation and Psycho-Social Suffering of Rwandan Refugees in Africa and Europe |
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Afghan Refugees in the United States: Before and After September 11th |
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Refugees in South Asia & Humiliation |
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Immigrants, Refugees in West Africa & Humiliation |
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Humiliation Policies Applied to Persecuted Individuals, Detainees and Refugees During the Period 1975/1983 in Rosario, Argentina |
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A Qualitative Study on the Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Living in Camps in Tamil Nadu on the Humiliation That They Face |
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Humiliation, Conflict Escalation and Terrorism in Post-Saddam Iraq: A Case Study of the Baghdad University Fallujah Refugee Camp |
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Refugees in Kenya and the Phenomenon of Humiliation |
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