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    Enjeux et limites des catégorisations dans le contexte des migrations forcées. L’exemple des réfugiés palestiniens et syriens au Liban depuis 2011
    (Université de Poitiers, 2025-11-01) Aumond, Florian; Doraï, Kamel
    Cet article, croisant les approches géographiques et juridiques, vise à relire de façon critique les catégorisations dans le cadre des migrations contraintes, plus précisément dans des contextes de conflits et de déplacements multiples et secondaires. Il s’appuie sur trois populations : les réfugiés palestiniens du Liban et de Syrie et les réfugiés syriens déplacés au Liban depuis 2011. Ces trois groupes relèvent de deux agences de l’ONU : l’UNRWA et l’UNHCR. Toutes deux exercent dans un pays, le Liban, non-partie à la Convention de Genève de 1951 relative au statut des réfugiés et qui a produit depuis 1948 son propre cadre national de gestion des réfugiés. Il a ainsi adopté sa propre définition de cette catégorie et induit de facto une distinction dans le traitement des populations concernées. Cet article se base sur une analyse des textes et documents officiels produits par les deux agences onusiennes et l’État libanais ainsi que sur des données collectées auprès des trois populations concernées au Liban depuis 2011.
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    Understanding maternal perspectives of skin-to-skin contact for the management of acute pain in very and extremely preterm infants
    (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc, 2025-12-15) Hashemi, Haleh; Cohen, Estreya Rachel; Garvey, Nichaela; Lebovic, Andrea; Bacchini, Fabiana; Johannsson, Lesley; Cheng, Carol; Shah, Vibhuti; Riddell, Rebecca Pillai
    Skin-to-skin care (SSC) and skin-to-skin contact for procedural pain (SSCP) are recognized for their physiological and emotional benefits in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), including pain reduction in preterm infants. However, little is known about how birthing parents of very and extremely preterm infants (<32 weeks gestational age), a significantly more challenging preterm infant population to enact SSCP, perceive this intervention. This study aimed to explore birthing parents' experiences and perceptions related to the use of SSC and SSCP in the NICU with their very and extremely preterm infants. In partnership with a national preterm parent organization, virtual interviews were conducted with 38 mothers of very or extremely preterm infants from across Canada, who had been admitted to the NICU within the past 5 years. Data were synthesized into 8 primary themes relating first to SSC broadly and then SSCP. In addition, mothers' opinions about a priori concepts and potential interventions (generated from pilot data) were also vetted. Important actionable facilitators and barriers related to fears and interventions to support SSCP with parents of very and extremely preterm infants were discerned. Although most found their experience rewarding, barriers such as limited instruction, inconsistent staff support, procedural challenges, and emotional strain often hindered the use of SSCP. Enhancing staff training, standardizing protocols, offering mental health support, and adopting flexible, family-centered policies appear key to improving SSCP engagement with the youngest preterm infants.
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    Developing a Researcher Identity: Commonplace Books as Arts- Informed Reflective Process
    (Nova Southeastern University, 2018-03-06) Shuman, Layal; Shabtay, Abigail; McDonnell, Maggie; Bourassa, Nicole; El Muhammady, Fauzanah
    This article shares the processes of five emerging researchers as they trace their journeys in becoming researchers and examine their identities through the qualitative, arts-informed method of “commonplace book” creation. It positions commonplace books as “living document” that explore the ongoing processes of identity development we experience as novice scholars in the field of education. Using this article, we extend our artistic processes, inviting readers to join the conversation and reflect on why and how they engage in academic work, as well as the potential this method has for reflection, meaning-making and dissemination. We highlight the use of commonplace books as an arts-informed reflective method and a valuable performance in the journey of becoming/being academic researchers.
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    Using Embodied Tableaux as a Drama-Based Research Method with Children and Youth
    (Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG), American Anthropology Association, 2023) Shabtay, Abigail
    This article explores how embodied tableaux (a dramatic technique) can be used as a method in participatory research with children and youth. Methods discussed in this article were derived as part of the first phase of an ongoing, multi-year research program aimed at developing and adapting drama-based techniques as tools for participatory, child-centered research.
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    Information dependency: understanding the communicative ecology of young refugees in Kakuma
    (Springer Nature, 2025-12-12) Baú, Valentina
    This article looks at the communicative ecology of young people living in refugee camps. Findings from research conducted in October 2022 in Kakuma camp, Kenya, with both humanitarian professionals and young people living in the camp are presented. The aim is to provide an understanding of the workings of this ecology and the role that humanitarian actors play within it. An illustration of the three layers of the communicative ecology of Kakuma youth—technological, social and discoursive—is provided in order to offer an understanding of the communication and information network that characterises young people’s lives. In the end, this paper demonstrates how information can be viewed as a form of aid that refugee populations rely on. Reflecting on this form of dependency is useful for humanitarian organisations to recognise their role and agency in the lives of young refugees. It is also helpful to re-design their communication effort, with a view to delivering critical information for young people while providing a parallel path to self-reliance in communication.