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Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses
Yale survey of refugees in Bangladesh aims to help prevent COVID-19 spread
… living in overcrowded camps. Like other forcibly displaced people across the globe — more than 70 million in all — the … with UNHCR to prevent outbreaks.” Since 2017, the Rohingya people, a stateless ethnic Muslim minority group, have sought … to reduce risk of new infections. “ Our data show that people have adopted protective health behaviors, but they are …
MacMillan Center
Creating innovative solutions to aid refugees
… – which includes PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and “people with severe mental disorders,” such as substance … conceptions of how to help refugees. “We should trust the people [the refugees] themselves to come up with solutions to … She said that Westerners think that the reason that people in her communities don’t read is because they don’t …
MacMillan Center
Doug Rogers on Russia, writing, and ruminating in the garden
… Kremlin and oligarchs, but from the actual perspective of people on the ground.” His research asks fundamental … about the impact of oil booms: How do they transform people’s lives? How do corporations and state agencies work … mean when suddenly the salaries in a region double? How do people deal with those changes? As an ethnographer, he …
MacMillan Center
Y-RISE initiative enlists faculty expertise in fight against poverty
… programs so that they can benefit the greatest number of people. The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale, … policy and is delivered to hundreds of thousands of people. “The world becomes vastly more complicated when a … of villages is expanded to assist hundreds of thousands of people.” Y-RISE is supported by an anonymous donor and The …
European Studies Council
Yale sociologist Phil Gorski on the threat of white Christian nationalism
… they saw themselves, like the Israelites, as a chosen people. North America was the new Promised Land. The Native … to slavery. Christians used this to justify enslaving people of African descent. Why is 1690 the origin for white … as opposed to, say, 1776 or 1619, when the first enslaved people were brought to colonial Virginia? Gorski: The three …
Council on East Asian Studies
Yongtao Zhang
Senior Lector, East Asian Languages and Literatures
… (PiB) program for seven summers. http://eall.yale.edu/people/yongtao-zhang 434 Temple St, Room 203 …
European Studies Council
Why Ukrainians Are Prepared to Fight
… and oligarchy followed. “When you experience being with people who are ready die for you… it’s a kind of rapture, a … the Maidan once again. They were largely students, young people who felt as if their future had been torn from their … children there. At one point more than a half million people were on the streets of Kyiv, now with the slogan: “We …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
From Bondage to Freedom: The Making of an Abolitionist
… the turnscrew. As he recorded in his 1855 autobiography, “People doubted if I had ever been a slave. They said I did … left from Boston with an antislavery traveling companion, James Buffum, a wealthy, if slightly insipid, Garrisonian … a muck in greedy-eared Britain against America, its people, its institutions, and even against its peace.”[30] …