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which highly vulnerable refugees and their families identified by the UNs refugee agency UNHCR, are resettled under arrangements between councils and the Home Office. The initiative was founded in 2004 and
Sheffield and Bolton were the first cities to accept refugees, followed by Brighton, Rochdale, Norwich, Hull, Bury and Motherwell.
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community). Petty tensions between the different groups around the provision of dual language interpreters appeared to move onto a new level. ... Later discussions about the incident with
Sheffield's Burmese refugee community identified a significant part of what had happened. A disaffected member of
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The young people from the Karen refugee community in
Sheffield have a unique and important role to play in their new community of nearly 300 ... Many of them were born in the refugee camps on the Thai border with Burma and others fled with their parents from conflict areas during the many periods of
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We know very little about the mental health needs of
Burmese refugees in the UK, people coming from extended periods of conflict in their homeland ... One study reports Burmese migrants in Sheffield faced barriers in accessing public services because of their low levels of education, poor knowledge
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In the UK, Karen clothes are important markers of socio-political identity and memory. The Karen wear them at different festive occasions, such as the Karen New Year ... Participant observation during field-work in
Sheffield and London confirmed that Karen children and adults continue to wear their
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It also raised suspicions that were directed toward non-Karen
Burmese in Sheffield, specifically those undertaking the training, partly because of their non-Karen status. However, a discussion with one of the community leaders also indicated that the possibility of a member of the Karen community
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The men are among 130 Burmese people now living in
Sheffield, most of whom are of Karen ethnicity and who came from the Burma-Thai border where around 150,000 refugees have languished in nine camps, some for decades. ... The Burmese refugees came to the UK as part of the Gateway Programme, under
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ethnic groups constitute parts of
Burmese communities in the United Kingdom. A large proportion of Burmese people who migrated to the country before 2011 were from the ethnic minority group of Karens, who sought to flee the
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We estimate 8,000 Burmese people live in the UK: 5,000 in London and most of the others in
Cardiff, Portsmouth and Gosport. ... The event, on Sunday, will be the largest gathering of Burmese people in Britain to
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being in the pay of the
Burmese government could not be ruled out. This indication the level of collective paranoia that can be induced by a cyber-attack that is underpinned by decades of war and oppression.
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were invited to celebrate their new year at a festival with music, dancing and food. The area has one of the highest populations of Burmese people in the UK according to organisers of the London
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and local councils arranging for local housing and care. In 2005, it was estimated that there were around 8,000 Burmese people living in the United Kingdom, with the majority resident in
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Titled Moving to Mars, it tells the story of two refugee families from Burma who are given the opportunity to start their lives again and resettle in Sheffield as part of a UN scheme.
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Sheffield's Karen community (who not surprisingly have their own internal tensions, disputes, disagreements and power-struggles), was unburdening him/herself to a friend in
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Pia Jolliffe (2016). "Learning and integration in the UK".
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1041:. European Resettlement Network. Archived from
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1122:Amnesty International
96:Related ethnic groups
1345:The Jewish Chronicle
1237:. 22 December 2016.
1124:. 29 December 2007.
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919:. According to the
124:Part of a series on
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72:Theravada Buddhism
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842:Home Office
840:, with the
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469:Bangladeshi
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1427:Categories
1049:2020-11-16
975:30 January
956:References
854:Portsmouth
812:Background
749:Australian
723:Ecuadorian
664:Zimbabwean
550:West Asian
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494:Sri Lankan
431:Hongkonger
417:East Asian
319:Portuguese
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232:Lithuanian
202:Belarusian
1404:CiteSeerX
1266:Sheffield
1262:the north
1181:Thinngyan
1177:Stratford
1003:CiteSeerX
913:Yorkshire
878:Stratford
718:Colombian
713:Brazilian
614:Barbadian
527:Malaysian
489:Pakistani
474:Bhutanese
446:Mongolian
262:Ukrainian
217:Hungarian
207:Bulgarian
39:Languages
909:Kler Heh
905:Thailand
874:Thingyan
741:Oceanian
728:Peruvian
708:Bolivian
685:Canadian
680:American
659:Sudanese
644:Nigerian
639:Jamaican
634:Guyanese
629:Ghanaian
624:Eritrean
619:Egyptian
558:Armenian
517:Filipino
484:Nepalese
436:Japanese
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247:Romanian
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174:Scottish
169:Orcadian
77:Hinduism
63:Religion
1298:Reuters
1278:Britain
946:Burmans
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