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For decades, Civil War in Colombia has displaced thousands of people like 16-year-old María Ceballos, who fled her home when guerrillas killed her father. Moving from gang-infested settlements to over-crowded rooms, María's family finds comfort among fellow displaced families. Through her lens and mentored by filmmaker Susan Hoenig, María puts a human face on displacement.
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In Bridge the Gap to Haiti, host and global explorer, Chris Bashinelli, travels the world to experience life outside of his hometown -Brooklyn, New York. In this episode he visits Haiti, a country rocked by a massive earthquake. His mission: to see how the human spirit prevails in the face of adversity. He partners with a local non-profit organization that works side by with locals to help rebuild Haiti. After volunteering in a displacement camp he...
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"What are the barriers to education for internally displaced persons? How can these be overcome? Drawing on research from a diverse set of countries, including the the USA, Somalia, Colombia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the contributors consider the relationship between education and internally displaced persons. These case studies raise fundamental questions regarding the barriers to education and some unexpected benefits for...
5) Kamp Katrina
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Follows the lives of fourteen people who lived for six months in tents in a woman's backyard in New Orleans, shortly after Hurricane Katrina.
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The 1948 Palestine War is known to Israelis as "The War of Independence." But for Palestinians, the war is forever the Nakba, the "catastrophe." This book focuses on Palestinian internal refugees in Israel and internally displaced Palestinians across the Green Line. It uses oral history and interviews to examine Palestinian identity and memory, indigenous rights, international protection, the "right of return," and a just solution in Palestine/Israel....
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Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina's landfall. The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced.
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