Abstract The articles presented here in this special issue on Displaced Syria emerged from a workshop held at Institute of New York University Abu Dhabi March 2019. Its aims were to encourage an examination the perceptions and aspiration displaced Syrians practitioners hosting countries Levant, Gulf, Europe with attention voices displaced, their reimagining home homeland, emerging transnational...

Corresponding Author: Ken Onda Azabu University, School of Veterinary Medicine, 17-71 Fuchinobe 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara 229-8501, Japan Tel: +81-42-754-7111 (ext. 658)18 Fax: +81-42-850-2464 Email: [email protected] Abstract: Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase (OCT) is a hepatocyte-specific enzyme; elevated serum activity indicates liver damage. Displaced abomasum frequently occurs around the...

BACKGROUND Lebanon, a small Middle Eastern country facing constant political and national unity challenges with a population of approximately 300,000 Palestinian and Iraqi refugees, has welcomed more than 1.2 million Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-registered Syrian refugees since 2012. The Government of Lebanon considers individuals who crossed Lebanese-Syrian bo...

The existence of a short-statured Aboriginal population in the Far North Queensland (FNQ) rainforest zone of Australia's northeast coast and Tasmania has long been an enigma in Australian anthropology. Based on their reduced stature and associated morphological traits such as tightly curled hair, Birdsell and Tindale proposed that these "Barrinean" peoples were closely related to "negrito" peop...

Ensuring the sustained immunization of displaced persons is a key objective in humanitarian emergencies. Typically, humanitarian actors measure coverage of single vaccines following an immunization campaign; few measure routine coverage of all vaccines. We undertook household surveys of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, outside of camps, using a mix of random and respondent-driven sampling...

BACKGROUND Poliomyelitis is a highly infectious disease caused by poliovirus, which becomes difficult to manage/eradicate in politically unstable areas. The objectives of this study were to determine the movement and management of such polio outbreaks in endemic countries and countries with reoccurring cases of polio and to determine the effect of political instability on polio eradication. M...

While much of the mobility displaced populations is within Global South, scholarship around criminology largely United States/Eurocentric. This article proposes a Southern feminist ethico-political lens from which we can view or engage with mobility. The first highlights epistemological bordering processes and its implications in academic knowledge production. It then discusses multifaceted sta...