Change We Believe In

Jenkins Macedo, BSc., in Geography & Sociology  Chief Investigator Undergraduate Research Thesis in Sociology Dr. Fortunata Makene, Ph.D., Department of Sociology Worcester State University 2009 ABSTRACT T he refugee crisis is a universal phenomenon. The integration of refugees into the local communities pose a serious challenge both to the UN Refugee Agency, the governments of host countries, the local communities in which refugees are hosted and the refugees themselves. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the world’s refugee population is estimated to be about 14 million. This study investigated the integration of refugees in the host country and the impacts that warehousing refugees in camps has on the prospect of local integration. A total of 311 Liberian refugees at the Buduburam refugee camp participated in a survey in 2009. SPSS version 17 was used to analyze the data by conduction correlation analysis....

Jenkins Macedo, BSc., in Geography & Sociology  Chief Investigator An  Undergraduate Research Paper  in Geography of the Middle East 2010     Dr. Mohamed Eskandari, Ph.D., Professor of Middle East Changing Environment Department of Physical and Earth Sciences Worcester State College ABSTRACT On March 20 2003, the United States and her allies invaded Iraq with a promise of bringing a better life by a change in the political system. Using the language of “preemption”, President George W. Bush justified the war based on the assumption that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and also had links with Al-Qaeda. These assumptions were used to conclude that Iraq posed an imminent national security threat to the United States and her allies in the region (Drasner, 2009). According to Robert (2003), the British and Americans governments already had made up their minds to change the regime in Iraq and were only ...

Jenkins Macedo, BSc.,  Chief Investigator An  Undergraduate  Research Thesis in Geography Dr. Stephen Healy, Ph.D.,  Department of Physical and Natural Sciences Worcester State University 2010 ABSTRACT Much of the literature on refugee warehousing and their impacts on the host country’s environment assumes that refugees are exceptional resource degraders. The dominant  conceptualization of refugees’ impacts on the host country’s environment treats refugees  as actors with destructive behaviors rather than seeing the degradation as a result of  inappropriate government policies, inefficient humanitarian assistance, and the lack of  effective plan by host countries to foster durable solution. This study challenged these  assumptions through the use of a questionnaire directed at refugees at the Buduburam R efugee Camp in Ghana. The questionnaires concern the patterns of environmental  res...