9 results on '"Rebelo, Dora"'
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2. Prioritising communities: barriers to climate activism and political imagination among minoritised youth groups.
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Rebelo, Dora, Garcia, Ana Dias, Santos, Tânia R., Carvalho, Anabela, Malafaia, Carla, and Fernandes-Jesus, Maria
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YOUNG adults , *CLIMATE justice , *CLIMATE change , *POLITICAL debates , *CLIMATE change mitigation , *ACTIVISM , *IMAGINATION - Abstract
Minoritised youth voices are often underrepresented in climate action research. Despite the increasing interest in youth climate activism, there is still an overall lack of attention to the perspectives of young people struggling with discrimination, poverty, and other social injustices. In this article, we focus on a diverse group of minoritised youth in Portugal to explore their experiences of climate activism, perceived agency, and political imaginaries of the future. We conducted a qualitative study involving seven focus groups with 55 participants, including young people with a migrant background and/or living in underserved communities in Portugal. Based on a Reflexive Thematic Analysis, we generated three main themes that illustrate participants’ ways of engaging with climate change issues, the barriers that constrain their engagement with climate activism and the challenges in the political imagination of the future. Our findings suggest that minoritised youth would like to have a voice in political debates about climate change and that more inclusive dialogues about climate futures could help bridge existing territorial and social divides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Coming of Age While Challenging Borders : Networks of Solidarity and Resistance of Swedish-Afghan Youths on the Move in Europe.
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Rebelo, Dora
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COMING of age , *AFGHANS , *MINORS , *SOLIDARITY , *ETHNOLOGY , *ETHNICITY - Abstract
This article examines the strategies of resistance enacted by an informal network of solidarity comprised of Afghan youths on the move in Europe and their Swedish allies. In 2015, thousands of Afghan children fleeing from the Taliban regime arrived in Europe as unaccompanied minors. Many have been hosted in Sweden and lived there for several years, until coming of age. Reaching 18 years prompted a series of consecutive losses, as the Swedish state limited their opportunities to remain in the country or even illegalized them. Subjected to threats of detention, deportation, and ill treatment, many Afghan youths re-escaped into other European countries, crafting networks of informal solidarity to help them resist border violence. This article is based on an ethnographic study that delves into the lived experiences of four Afghan youths who lived in Lisbon between February 2019 and February 2020, particularly focusing on the journey of Ahmed, a young man of Hazara ethnicity. The empirical data shed light on the solidarity enactments that enhanced the youths' resistance in hostile environments, inviting reflection on the impacts of the European border regime and the importance of agency, care, and political contestation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. Integrating refugees and migrants into higher education in Portugal? An action research experience in a Portuguese university.
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Santinho, Cristina and Rebelo, Dora
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PORTUGUESE language , *ETHNOLOGY , *REFUGEES , *ACTION research , *HIGHER education , *FORCED migration , *IMMIGRANTS - Abstract
This article results from research comprised of fieldwork ethnography, participant observation, collection of life stories, interviews and testimonials of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, living in Portugal. We focus on a particular experience of the research named Living in a Different Culture (LDC), which took place between 2017 and 2019, aimed at participants who shared the goal of becoming university students, before migration. LDC supported students who wanted to continue their academic training and those wanting to find alternative pathways of inclusion and autonomy, using new academic skills and knowledge. The project included a tailored course in Portuguese society and culture, created with an anthropological lens, Portuguese language classes and other disciplines. Several of the students who attended the course, in both academic years, continued their studies, or found work within their area of expertise. Obstacles highlighted in the paper perpetuated cycles of precarious living and structural violence. We argue that by devaluing migrants and refugees' knowledges and skills, host society loses important resources to its own development. We conclude by stating that projects such as LDC require a long-term commitment with interinstitutional support, a sustainability strategy, and a decolonial mindset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic.
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Esposito, Francesca, Rebelo, Dora, Olanrewaju, Moshood, Vine, Megan, Fernandes‐Jesus, Maria, Bodden, Debi, Kalokoh, Aminata, and Olson, Bradley
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COVID-19 pandemic , *SOLIDARITY , *SYNDEMICS , *GRASSROOTS movements , *COMMUNITY psychology , *SOCIAL control , *VIOLENCE - Abstract
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and inequalities. This is what has been defined as "border imperialism." Our data, complemented by evidence from transnational solidarity groups, show that border imperialism has further intersected with the hygienic‐sanitary logics of social control at play during the COVID‐19 period. This intersection has resulted in increasingly coercive methods of restraining people on the move, as well as in increased—and new—forms of degradation of their lives, that is, an overall multiplication of border violences. At the same time, however, COVID‐19 has provided a unique opportunity for grassroot solidarity initiatives and resistance led by people on the move to be amplified and extended. We conclude by emphasizing the need for community psychologists to take a more vigorous stance against oppressive border imperialist regimes and the related forms of violence they re/enact. Highlights: People on the move have been, and continue to be, disproportionally harmed by the COVID‐19 syndemic.Migrant injustice is produced by a global system of border imperialism.The COVID‐19 syndemic has worked as a multiplier of border violences.The COVID‐19 has been a driver of grassroots solidarity and resistance led by people on the move.Community psychologists need to take a more vigorous stance against border imperialist regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic
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Esposito, Francesca, primary, Rebelo, Dora, additional, Olanrewaju, Moshood, additional, Vine, Megan, additional, Fernandes‐Jesus, Maria, additional, Bodden, Debi, additional, Kalokoh, Aminata, additional, and Olson, Bradley, additional
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- 2023
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7. A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic
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Esposito, Francesca, Rebelo, Dora Marina Honório da Costa Almeida, Olanrewaju, Moshood, Vine, Megan, Fernandes-Jesus, Maria, Bodden, Debi, Kalokoh, Aminata, Olson, Bradley, and Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
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FOS: Psychology ,no border solidarity and resistance ,border violence ,Health (social science) ,community psychology for migrant justice ,border imperialism ,52 Psychology ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Psychology ,Applied Psychology ,COVID‐19 syndemic - Abstract
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be— disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and inequalities. This is what has been defined as “border imperialism.” Our data, complemented by evidence from transnational solidarity groups, show that border imperialism has further intersected with the hygienic‐sanitary logics of social control at play during the COVID‐19 period. This intersection has resulted in increasingly coercive methods of restraining people on the move, as well as in increased—and new—forms of degradation of their lives, that is, an overall multiplication of border violences. At the same time, however, COVID‐19 has provided a unique opportunity for grassroot solidarity initiatives and resistance led by people on the move to be amplified and extended. We conclude by emphasizing the need for community psychologists to take a more vigorous stance against oppressive border imperialist regimes and the related forms of violence they re/enact.
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- 2023
8. Mobilidades e resistências: solidariedade informal e atos de cidadania com refugiados, requerentes de asilo e outras categorias moventes, na Europa pós-2015
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Rebelo, Dora Marina Honório da Costa Almeida and Santinho, Maria Cristina Ferraz Saraiva
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Mobility ,Acts of citizenship ,Hospitalidade ,Refugees ,Borders ,Ciências Sociais::Sociologia [Domínio/Área Científica] ,Mobilidades ,Atos de cidadania ,Hospitality ,Informal solidarity ,Fronteiras ,Refugiados ,Solidariedade Informal - Abstract
Esta tese centra-se em iniciativas cidadãs de solidariedade informal, com pessoas em situação de mobilidade forçada, na Europa pós-2015. São descritas histórias de resistência que decorreram em seis países, entre 2015 e 2020, com destaque para Portugal, onde foi desenvolvido um trabalho de campo mais aprofundado. A investigação procura dar conta das intersubjetividades entre pessoas em situação de mobilidade, e os seus aliados na sociedade civil, numa configuração cosmopolita e fluida que foi designada de sistemas moventes solidários. Através destas histórias fronteiriças, são contrastadas as vivências das mobilidades desde dentro, com as narrativas institucionais externas, dos Estados-Nação. Utilizando como métodos a participação engajada, a reflexão conjunta sobre as ações solidárias em curso, as entrevistas em profundidade, e diversos dados secundários, procura investigar-se o impacto e a transformação provocados pelas ações de solidariedade informal, não apenas nos indivíduos, mas no seu/nosso exercício coletivo de cidadania, na contemporaneidade. O que emerge da vasta cadeia interconectada de solidariedades que se apresenta, é a busca de uma solução existencial alternativa, que ponha fim à violência das fronteiras. As transformações encontradas, no terreno e na própria investigadora, desvelaram-se a diversos níveis, nas vidas pessoais, familiares, profissionais, e no posicionamento político face às fronteiras e aos Estados-Nação. Porque falamos de vidas humanas e de intersubjetividades, não existe uma redução material final, que se possa designar de conclusão, mas as experiências e relações aqui relatadas contribuem para uma reflexão mais lata, sobre a questão fundamental do direito à livre circulação de pessoas no mundo. Esta tese centra-se em iniciativas cidadãs de solidariedade informal, com pessoas em situação de mobilidade forçada, na Europa pós-2015. São descritas histórias de resistência que decorreram em seis países, entre 2015 e 2020, com destaque para Portugal, onde foi desenvolvido um trabalho de campo mais aprofundado. A investigação procura dar conta das intersubjetividades entre pessoas em situação de mobilidade, e os seus aliados na sociedade civil, numa configuração cosmopolita e fluida que foi designada de sistemas moventes solidários. Através destas histórias fronteiriças, são contrastadas as vivências das mobilidades desde dentro, com as narrativas institucionais externas, dos Estados-Nação. Utilizando como métodos a participação engajada, a reflexão conjunta sobre as ações solidárias em curso, as entrevistas em profundidade, e diversos dados secundários, procura investigar-se o impacto e a transformação provocados pelas ações de solidariedade informal, não apenas nos indivíduos, mas no seu/nosso exercício coletivo de cidadania, na contemporaneidade. O que emerge da vasta cadeia interconectada de solidariedades que se apresenta, é a busca de uma solução existencial alternativa, que ponha fim à violência das fronteiras. As transformações encontradas, no terreno e na própria investigadora, desvelaram-se a diversos níveis, nas vidas pessoais, familiares, profissionais, e no posicionamento político face às fronteiras e aos Estados-Nação. Porque falamos de vidas humanas e de intersubjetividades, não existe uma redução material final, que se possa designar de conclusão, mas as experiências e relações aqui relatadas contribuem para uma reflexão mais lata, sobre a questão fundamental do direito à livre circulação de pessoas no mundo.
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- 2021
9. Expanding Venezuelan's voices in Colombia: A case study with female leaders
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Silva, Carolina, Rebelo, Dora, and Clemente, Mara
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Intersectionality ,Mulheres venezuelanas ,Gender ,Colômbia ,Colombia ,Empoderamento feminino ,Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais [Domínio/Área Científica] ,Migração ,Liderança social ,Women empowerment ,Venezuelan women ,Interseccionalidade ,Género ,Social leadership ,Migration - Abstract
This study foregrounds Venezuelan women’s migratory experiences and the social structural factors which influenced the becoming lideresas in their settlement communities in Colombia, and how their voices resound in integration processes. More than victims of their contexts, migrant women are key agents of change and are relevant contributors to human development. In this sense, recognizing their rights should be the priority in international migration policies, rather than reinforcing unequal gendered power relations, which will put them even more at risk. It is key not to lose sight of women’s agency when addressing gender in migration literature and in the development agenda. The lack of theoretical frameworks representing the voices and leadership experiences of Venezuelan migrant women, compounded by the various ways intersectionality changes the experience, contributes to its underrepresentation in several spheres. To address this gap, I examined Venezuelan women’s journey from their migratory experience to settling in Colombia and becoming voices for their communities in the host country, from their narratives. Eight Venezuelan and three Colombian social leaders were interviewed, and data were analysed through thematic analysis. Findings showed how women deal with their complex histories and become social leaders, overcoming daily barriers, and struggling to help their communities, and provided evidence of some achievements their voices have accomplished. The lessons learned from the participation of female Venezuelans in social leadership roles in Colombia, and key observations might generate fruitful insights for migration and gender studies. Este estudo revela algumas experiências migratórias de mulheres venezuelanas e os fatores estruturais sociais que influenciaram a que estas se tornassem líderes nas suas comunidades recetoras, na Colômbia, analisando como as suas vozes ressoam nos processos de integração. Mais do que vítimas dos seus contextos, as mulheres migrantes são agentes-chave de mudança e importantes contribuintes do desenvolvimento humano. Neste sentido, o reconhecimento dos seus direitos deveria ser uma das prioridades das políticas migratórias, ao invés de reforçarem relações de género desiguais, que poderão colocá-las ainda mais em risco. É fundamental considerar a agência das mulheres nas abordagens de género da literatura sobre migração e na agenda do desenvolvimento. A falta de representatividade das vozes e das experiências de liderança das mulheres migrantes venezuelanas, agravada pelas formas como a interseccionalidade influencia as suas experiências, contribui para que haja uma sub-representação das mesmas em diversas esferas. Para colmatar esta lacuna, examinou-se a viagem das mulheres venezuelanas desde a sua experiência migratória até se estabelecerem na Colômbia e se tornarem vozes nas suas comunidades de acolhimento, a partir das suas narrativas. Os resultados revelaram como as mulheres lidam com as suas histórias complexas e se convertem em líderes sociais, ultrapassando barreiras diárias e lutando para ajudar as suas comunidades, e forneceram provas de conquistas que as suas vozes alcançaram. Como contribuição final pretende-se identificar lições aprendidas com a participação de mulheres venezuelanas em papéis de liderança social na Colômbia, identificando os pontos centrais em reflexões futuras nos estudos de género e das migrações.
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- 2022
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