Digital Design

Assignments

Website Evaluation

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Website: “Slavery Footprint” https://slaveryfootprint.org/

This website was created to call attention to “modern slavery” that many global brands use to create their products: forced labor. A survey determines the reader’s “slavery footprint”, tracing back the brands that you use regularly to potential or known forced labor, and how that labor profits off of you. This is done in a dynamic and non-threatening format: hands deliver new information to the screen and colorful cartoons are used to express abstract ideas. Justin Dillon, the developer of this website in partnership with the U.S. State Department, aims his content at a privileged audience, stating that “you have the power to change this.” He directs his message about modern slavery towards the wealthy consumers that ignorantly feed the unethical industry in the hope that awareness will lead to change. The non-threatening format informs while withholding blame. I hope to apply this non-threatening, engaging, and interactive format towards my own project that will also be aimed at those who can make a difference: marketing and sales professionals who have built an industry on gendering products. By seeking to inform rather than to blame, I hope to engage my audience with the message rather than put them on the defensive.

“Slavery Footprint” has a design that upholds its overall goal of engaging consumers with a survey that analyzes how each reader has played a part in this issue without inflicting blame. It is very easy to navigate through, as readers are directed through the website’s content with prompts and animation. However, the dynamic aspects of the website that allow a reader to flow easily from one concept to another also make it difficult to independently search for information on the site or go back to revisit. If I were to improve this website, I would like to strike a balance between the directed flow and a more open format that allows the reader to seek information freely. In addition, while the non-threatening tone, color palette, and animations are important to engaging privileged readers without defensive reactions, they fail to convey the gravity of the issue. Other documentations of forced labor are graphic and appalling; features which cannot be shown in a colorful cartoon. A website that highlights the grave consequences of forced labor may be more influential in recruiting readers towards change. Finally, some pages of the website were not compatible for all devices, which interrupted my viewing experience. It is highly important that my website be compatible and accessible through all devices in order to reach my intended audience: marketing professionals who take content design very seriously.

Despite its flaws in design formatting and its approach to the topic of forced labor, “Slavery Footprint” exemplifies many of Robin William’s principles of design. Elements of repetition and contrast were evident throughout the page. The same hands delivered new text as the reader scrolled, and the font remained constant throughout. However, the text alternated between two sizes and the larger, more important concepts alternated between two contrasting colors (blue and red). Each hand that delivered text brightened the screen with red, orange, blue, and green, conveying diversity within this global issue and adding contrast to the site’s appearance. To maintain alignment, all text is shown within one center column, directing the audience through a linear progression of the material. As the information is presented linearly rather than conceptually, the final principle (proximity of related items/text) is not drastically represented on this page. However, the space between lines of text that are meant to convey one thought have a smaller space between them than the space between the original and a new concept.

While this website and my project may be speaking to different societal problems, my project aims to change the mindsets of individuals who can make a difference on the issue, just as this project does. I hope to apply the engaging interactive elements, diverse color scheme, non-threatening tone, and animated format towards my own project of gendered toy marketing. I can also learn from the changes that I would implement on this site: making my content accessible and compatible for any device, allowing my readers to search independently on my site for information, and conveying the gravity of gendered marketing towards child development and learned gender stereotypes.

Pledged: MCM

Website Evaluation

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Website: Generations United

Page Authors

The website appears to be released by the Generations United Organization, itself. There are no specific names connected as the author, but there is an Our Team link that shows all of the team members.

Intended Audience

The website is geared toward public policymakers, politicians, and people working with nonprofits. Generations United advocates for children and elderly in the Washington, D.C. area, where they are involved with public policy and intergenerational programming, so it mostly pertains to people in that community.

Site Information

Generations United seeks to inspire, engage, empower, advocate for intergenerational collaboration, policy and programming. The website has three main tabs that tell who Generations United is, what they do and “explore our topics,” which provides info on the types of intergenerational topics that they place a focus on. There are links to various articles and resources that users can click on to learn more about these topics. The home page has an engaging infographic with stats about intergenerational issues in America. There is contact info and links to social media accounts for Generations United. Lastly, there is information on how to get involved with the organization or donate.

Design Evaluation

First off, the Generations United website comes across as professional and user-friendly. The home page incorporates movement, which adds to the ease of use and does not distract. When the audience mouses over a clickable link, the box appears to move forward. Also, each link is labeled to indicate if it is an article, resource, video or publication, which is helpful so that the user knows what to expect.

This site upholds many of Robin Williams’ design principles. The website is colorful and provides a clear contrast, yet it is not overpowering. There is enough white space which makes the elements appear balanced. The drop-down menus under the three main tabs are nice because they prevent the cluttering of too much text on the page at one time. Additionally, this makes it easy for the user to navigate and find answers. The main tabs are labeled with basic phrases such as “who we are,” what we do,” and “get involved.” Also, the top right corner of the site includes a search bar so that users can simply type in keywords to find what they need. There is variation in text size, color and boldness, which helps the eye distinguish titles from body text. There is consistency in formatting between pages, which makes the site appear polished. Lastly, there is a lot of left alignment within the site, which makes it look neater as opposed to centering all text.

This site does not differ much from what Robin Williams says about design principles. But, the website is a digital publication rather than a print publication, so it is formatted for readers to scroll instead of view everything on the page at the same time. 

Suggestions for Improvement

This site is very clean and neat, so I do not have many suggestions for improvement. However, all of the outside links on the website do not open in a separate tab. I wish that all links that take users to another website would open up in a separate tab so that they do not have to keep clicking the back navigation button.

Aspects to Apply to our Project

  • Movement and color changes when mousing over clickable links:
    This interactive aspect will be good to use for the main menu links and things we want users to click on.
  • Easy to use block buttons:
    For the Adopt-a-Grandparent narratives, we can use the block button formats that just show the person’s photo and name. Users can then click and the narrative will expand.
  • Labeling of links:
    This may be useful if we decide to link the scholarly sources we used for our research.
  • Consistent formatting for all pages within the website:
    Once we figure out a format that is appealing and easy to use, we will use the same formatting throughout the site.
  • Incorporation of infographics:
    For stats about intergenerational programming and the Town of Davidson demographics, it will be efficient to consolidate this information into infographic form.

Works Cited

“Generations United.” Generations United, https://www.gu.org/. Accessed 20 Feb. 2020.

PLEDGED: CME

Website Evaluation

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Vogue.com: https://www.vogue.com

  • The authors of the page are the writers/journalists, editors, and digital designers who work for Condé Nast.
  • The intended audience is anyone literate, able to see, and interested in fashion
  • The site features fashion news, lifestyle, beauty, and culture articles, as well as videos
  • Yes, the design of the site allows users to easily navigate between each of the above sub-headings and invites viewers to click on links featured in large-scale on the homepage
  • The site fulfills Williams’s focus on contrast as a way to allow the viewer to clearly see the subsections of the website. The background of the site is white and the text is black and the site-design sticks to this B/W color scheme as a way to encourage usability/textual visibility and as a design choice (since the B/W scheme looks mimics the print version of the magazine) The centered text, however, departs from William’s principles.
  • I would improve the presentation/design by featuring less posts on the homepage, since the amount of information which first greets the viewer is a bit overwhelming. I would also not feature advertisements and other distracting visual material.
  • I would like to apply the B/W color scheme to my own site since it encourages visibility and accessibility. It also mimics the more old-fashioned form of print and will thus bolster the historical focus of my project. I would also like to employ Vogue’s large-scale horizontal image which is featured on the homepage. I would like for my site to feature a similar image which will be a text and photo combination which will act as the title and byline of my website.

Epilogue Website Evaluation

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The Florence Project

  • Authors: Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (there were no authors listed by name, but this is a link to the staff page)
  • Intended audience: people in the US, specifically in Arizona, who are concerned about immigrants detained in Arizona, lawyers looking to defend cases, and immigrants themselves who need an attorney or a family plan.
  • Site information: the site has many different dropdown menu options with an abundance of information, from “about us,” personal stories, various programs and offerings, resources for lawyers and immigrants (in English and Spanish), and a “get involved” menu, among other options.
  • Design: the site seems well-designed. It has an aesthetic appeal (with bright images and colors), it scrolls smoothly, and the dropdown menus make it easy to navigate from one page to the next. I did not see a search bar though which might make it difficult to find a specific page amongst all the options. There are a plethora of pages and things to look at, perhaps due to its many different audiences, but the overall organization of the site helped make it more navigable. Only one page was in Spanish and English, and that may make it less accessible overall for Spanish speakers. I do not know how Spanish speakers would find that page in the first place unless specifically directed to it. I don’t personally like the color scheme, but they suit the website well and aren’t too bright or obnoxious.
  • Principles of Design: Some sections of this site are left aligned, and others are center aligned. Although there is not consistency between the different sections, each has consistent alignment individually. There is some contrast; while the fonts do not change, the text size, bold/normal text, and sometimes color changes to indicate headers, titles, and new sections. The same colors and fonts repeat themselves throughout the website. Some pages have images, some have none, and some have multiple; a little more consistency with images would help with repetition and aesthetic appeal.
  • Improve: I would add a search bar, first and foremost. That would help with navigation through all the different pages. I would also provide a Spanish language option on the main menu, since a non-English speaker might have a hard time navigating through the menus to the one page that includes Spanish translations. I would also add more consistency with images and with header colors – sometimes a header is bolded black, and sometimes it is red.
  • Incorporate: I really like the structure of this website; it is intuitive, for the most part, easy to navigate, the colors and images on the homepage make it appealing, and it incorporates some of the elements we want for our project, including stories, facts, and resources.

Here were two other websites I looked at:

http://refugeerights.org/resettled-abdullahs-story/

http://www.therefugeeproject.org/#/2018/TUR

Although I don’t think they would work as well for our website design, they might be worth looking through for ideas.

Website Evaluation

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After doing finishing this assignment I was shown a couple of other websites that showcase websites with incredible design and wanted to add the links to them as well:

https://www.awwwards.com/

https://www.siteinspire.com/

For this assignment :

Website: https://crypton.trading/

Author(s): This seems to be a website that is trying to a launch a startup of some sort, or the website itself is some sort of case study for a larger company, based upon looking at the website of the company that powers it. The company that powers the website is called Evrone- it says on the website “We offer a complete range of bespoke design and development services to help you turn your ideas into digital masterpieces”.

Intended audience: Those in the industry – web development, blockchain and FinTech, User Experience and Design and mobile app development.

What kind of information is this site providing? This site is providing limited information, but it generates interest in the company and the services/products the company provides. It is definitely meant to be an attention grabber to get people to the site. This site also provides contact information as well as information on how to get the company’s main website which holds more information on the project.

The design of the site is well suited for the chosen content, functions and audience as it definitely seems like it is meant to have limited information but draw people in to gather more information. It is very easy for the user to navigate and is very easy to read as there isn’t much to read on the site in general. It is very easy for the user to navigate; search through the website and find answers and you are also able to click on the parent site which holds more information very easily on this site. Contact information is also readily available for users of the site. This site does seem to uphold Robin Williams’s principles of design pretty well, there is proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast all visible on the site. I really like the way the site is, it is very eye-catching and draws you in to learn more about it and find out more information. It easily answers any basic questions you may add and leads you to other websites or ways to contact the people in charge of the site in order to learn more. I think in that way I would leave it as it is because it seems like it accomplishes the goal it was set out to do. The only thing I would think about changing or adjusting about the site would be to add more information to it. I would like to add how fun and eye-catching this website is to my own project and also how easy it is to navigate for users. I also like the graphics of the website as they were really cool and explained the topic well. In order to do this, I would keep these design decisions in mind when creating my website but I am not sure the coding that it would require in order to make it happen as of yet.

Strategic Plan: Intergenerational Mental Health

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Research Goal: Identify 10 sources we will use and initiate contact with community sources

Target Deadline: End of February

  1. Find initial sources, roughly 3 per person 
  2. Read/annotate sources and determine which ones are useful, compare sources 
  3. Make a list of people in the community to contact and meet with
  4. Schedule meetings and determine what questions to ask

Outreach Goal: Create Instagram account to publicize our project and the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program

Target Deadline: Mid-March

  1. Identify groups, hashtags, and accounts to follow
  2. Attend an Adopt-A-Grandfriend event and publicize the event. 
  3. Collect personal narratives and photos from participants
  4. Plan timeline for Instagram posts
  5. Implement sustainability plan with Jack Casey

Writing Goal: Connect academic research with the information gathered from Adopt-A-Grandfriend to create a cohesive database for Intergenerational Programming

Target Deadline: Mid-March

  1. Write Lit Review — each group member chooses one of three topics: mental health and college campuses, mental health of elderly people, and how they intersect
  2. Convert stats from Lit Reviews into accessible infographics
  3. Frame participant narratives in a way that facilitates interest in the program

Design Goal: Make an engaging and accessible website through interactive design

Target Deadline: End of April

  1. Draw blueprint for wireframe
  2. Research interactive tools that are most effective for site
  3. Make 2 prototype website designs
  4. Crowdsource to understand audience and ask them what they think works best and runs the smoothest
  5. Make revisions based on feedback

Schedule

MonthWeek Writing/Research/DesignOther factors
FEB 17Week 1– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Outreach & Sustainability Plan (2.16)
– Strategic Plan (2.18)
– Meet with Jack Casey (2.18)
– Wireframe (2.20)
– Meet with Dr. Multhaup
– Set up Instagram account @grandfriendsofdavidson
* (password: english406)
FEB 24Week 2– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week 
– Divide literature review topics
– Work on literature review
– Literature Review (2.28)
– Follow up with Jack Casey and reach out to his grandfriends
– Research interactive tools to incorporate in website
MAR 2Week 3SPRING BREAK
MAR 9Week 4– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Divide content draft responsibilities
– Work on content draft
– Send out email to Adopt-A-Grandfriend participants asking for narratives/photos
– Plan timeline for Instagram posts		Marina’s Thesis Due (3.11)
Chloe away for A10 Tournament (3.11-3.15)
MAR 16Week 5– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Revise content draft before submitting assignment
– Content Draft (3.19)
– Begin prototype 1 brainstorming
– First Instagram post
– Follow Davidson College accounts and intergenerational programming accounts
* Utilize hashtags
* Create infographics
– Learn how to use chosen interactive tool for website
MAR 23Week 6– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Make prototype 1
MAR 30Week 7– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Prototype 1 (4.2)
– Go to Adopt-A-Grandfriend event (4.2)
– Receive feedback on prototype 1
APR 6Week 8– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Begin prototype 2 brainstorming
APR 13Week 9– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Make prototype 2
– Receive feedback on prototype 1		 
APR 20Week 10– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Prototype 2 (4.23)
– Finalize project
– Begin white paper		Marina’s Thesis Presentation (4.?)
APR 27Week 11– Meet as a group 2-3 times a week
– Final Project (5.5)VMC (5.6)
– Work on white paper
– Implement sustainability plan with Jack Casey
MAY 4Week 12Final Week
– White Paper (5.11)

Roles and Responsibilities:

We plan on meeting two to three times throughout the week outside of class to ensure that we are all on the same page with responsibilities and tasks. When possible, we will work alongside each other so we can freely share ideas and question one another. We feel that through support and collaboration, we will arrive at the best possible outcomes for this project. We all benefit from talking through our ideas, so we think that our best work is done when we are together and not working on our own isolated part of the project. We want us to all be up to speed with what each of us is doing, so it helps that we can schedule concrete times to meet. Because we will be working together frequently, roles will be dependent on who best fits the role during a given time during our project’s process. This means that roles will move throughout the group and each individual will be privy to information and knowledge in all fields. 

Chloe: Decision log

Marina: Communications

Nicolette: Calendar

As we get further along in the process, we will edit and provide a list of the roles that have been established within the group, that are more design based. 

PLEDGED: MS, NS, CE

Outreach and Sustainability Plan: Intergenerational Mental Health

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Outreach

Community Resources

  1. Georgia Ringle – Davidson College Health Educator
    1. Share project? Yes; we already met with Georgia to discuss our project and get resource recommendations both on and off-campus. We think that our website could be a beneficial resource for the Davidson College Center for Student Health and Well-Being because they can direct students to it to learn more about the mental health benefits of intergenerational relationships and how to get involved with Adopt-A-Grandfriend.
  2. Jack Casey – President of Adopt-A-Grandfriend at Davidson College
    1. Share project? We believe that our website, once established, will be useful for this student organization, which is currently run by Jack Casey. The website will advertise future events and serve as a digital space to preserve memories. We plan to include student and senior testimonies that will encourage more students to participate in Adopt-A-Grandfriend at Davidson College.
  3. Kristi Multhaup, PhD – Davidson College Professor and Chair of Psychology
    1. Share project? Yes; Dr. Multhaup’s expertise and research surrounding cognitive aging will allow us to learn from a scholar and professor who knows about the subject and could provide us with further research to explore. In order to create the most accurate representative platform for intergenerational programming, her opinion may be a crucial part of how we connect scholarship to Adopt-A-Grandfriend. 
  4. Adopt-A-Grandfriend student participants at Davidson College
    1. Share project? Yes; the student participants are an integral part of our project because they can provide us with the personal narratives we want to collect and share on our website. In order to get their permission to share their stories, we have to inform them of our project and how the information they provide will be used. 
  5. Adopt-A-Grandfriend adult participants
    1. Share project? Yes; the adult participants are also an integral part of our project because we also want to collect narratives from them as well. As stated above, in order to get their permission to share their stories on our website, we have to let them know about our project and how the information they give us will be used. 

Social Media

We have facilitated communication with a couple of our sources via our Davidson College  emails, which connects us to a credible and noteworthy school.

To build upon our current Davidson network, we will utilize Facebook to find other intergenerational programs and professionals who study intergenerational programming. All three of our Facebook profiles are established as legitimate Davidson College students. We believe that this will come across as more trustworthy than trying to reach out to scholars via a newly made account that has no followers, nor previous posts.

We will also create an Instagram account for our project that informs followers about intergenerational programming benefits, promotes Adopt-A-Grandparent events and shares pictures from Adopt-A-Grandfriend. By following other Davidson College and local Instagram accounts, and hopefully receiving a follow-back request, we can establish legitimacy in the Davidson community. Our goal for this account is to create a convenient space that compels students to participate in the experience. Instagram has the ability to publicise the Adopt-A-Grandfriend experience in a more interactive and exciting way, through photos, as opposed to Facebook or other forms of social media. It is one of the most relevant digital platforms used by college students, and will allow for easy access to our website. Our profile bio will include information about the three of us, that we are Davidson College Seniors taking a digital design course, our collective interest in mental health, our project, our Instagram page’s purpose, and a link to our website.

Using Instagram as a way to connect with other relevant sources, will bring us into meaningful conversation directly with the organizations and individuals that work so closely to establish and publicise intergenerational programming around the world. Hashtags and locations on posts will also aid in the immediate relationship of these various programs. We aim to not only join, but to facilitate relevant conversations because we feel that we are able to contribute stories and information about intergenerational relationships that are not widely shared.

Some hashtags to consider: #intergenerational#grandfriend#grandparent#mentalhealth#studentactivities#elderlylove#studentengagement#DavidsonCollege #communityengagement #buildingcommunity #Davidsonservice #youthempowerment#belonging#agefriendly

Some relevant communities and people on social media:
1. Rep. Sara Innamorato – Representative of the 21st District in Pennsylvania
Her Instagram
Her Twitter
2. Intergenerational Connections – Facebook group that has an ongoing conversation about intergenerational programs and how to better connect young and old.
3. Erin L. Raffety ‘04 – Cultural anthropologist and Davidson College Alumna who wrote a dissertation on intergenerational approaches to Chinese child rearing.

Sustainability
We plan on building our site on Nicolette’s domain. As every individual on this team will be graduating in May, we anticipate switching the website over to the president of Adopt-A-Grandfriend, who will most likely be Jack Casey. We also plan to include the advisor of the organization to ensure that the website doesn’t get lost or become irrelevant after the students graduate or leave the program. Additionally, we would like to move our site to digitalprojects.davidson.edu, to ensure that our progress and information is kept on a platform that stays relevant and interactive within the Davidson-specific community.

Ideally we would like our site to exist alongside the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program so that the president and participants can use it and update it based on how the program develops. A reassessment of our website and its future potential with the Adopt-A-Grandfriend club will occur by May 5th, when our final project is due. We will ensure that there will be someone to pass on the administrative access.

We will allow our website’s viewers to post comments because it will further facilitate community and show that feedback and sharing other individual stories are appreciated. While we predict our Instagram profile will be updated more frequently, allowing viewers to comment on our website will help us identify what information needs clarification. Based on the comments, the website admins may need to respond. Therefore, whoever is the admin after us will take over this responsibility as well. We are going to share administrative access to the domain with whomever is in charge of the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program in the future so that they can take over the site duties and post updates, stories, and possibly the semester schedule for the club. This also includes sharing our Instagram with the site leader and ensuring that both elements of our project be kept up to date and share similar information.

PLEDGED: MS, NS, CE

Outreach and Sustainability Plan: Intergenerational Mental Health

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Outreach

Community Resources

  1. Georgia Ringle – Davidson College Health Educator
    1. Share project? Yes; we already met with Georgia to discuss our project and get resource recommendations both on and off-campus. We think that our website could be a beneficial resource for the Davidson College Center for Student Health and Well-Being because they can direct students to it to learn more about the mental health benefits of intergenerational relationships and how to get involved with Adopt-A-Grandfriend.
  2. Jack Casey – President of Adopt-A-Grandfriend at Davidson College
    1. Share project? We believe that our website, once established, will be useful for this student organization, which is currently run by Jack Casey. The website will advertise future events and serve as a digital space to preserve memories. We plan to include student and senior testimonies that will encourage more students to participate in Adopt-A-Grandfriend at Davidson College.
  3. Kristi Multhaup, Ph.D. – Davidson College Professor and Chair of Psychology
    1. Share project? Yes; Dr. Multhaup’s expertise and research surrounding cognitive aging will allow us to learn from a scholar and professor who knows about the subject and could provide us with further research to explore. In order to create the most accurate representative platform for intergenerational programming, her opinion may be a crucial part of how we connect scholarship to Adopt-A-Grandfriend. 
  4. Adopt-A-Grandfriend student participants at Davidson College
    1. Share project? Yes; the student participants are an integral part of our project because they can provide us with the personal narratives we want to collect and share on our website. In order to get their permission to share their stories, we have to inform them of our project and how the information they provide will be used. 
  5. Adopt-A-Grandfriend adult participants
    1. Share project? Yes; the adult participants are also an integral part of our project because we also want to collect narratives from them as well. As stated above, in order to get their permission to share their stories on our website, we have to let them know about our project and how the information they give us will be used. 

Social Media

We have facilitated communication with a couple of our sources via our Davidson College emails, which connects us to a credible and noteworthy school.

To build upon our current Davidson network, we will utilize Facebook to find other intergenerational programs and professionals who study intergenerational programming. All three of our Facebook profiles are established as legitimate Davidson College students. We believe that this will come across as more trustworthy than trying to reach out to scholars via a newly made account that has no followers, nor previous posts.

We will also create an Instagram account for our project that informs followers about intergenerational programming benefits, promotes Adopt-A-Grandparent events and shares pictures from Adopt-A-Grandfriend. By following other Davidson College and local Instagram accounts, and hopefully receiving a follow-back request, we can establish legitimacy in the Davidson community. Our goal for this account is to create a convenient space that compels students to participate in the experience. Instagram has the ability to publicize the Adopt-A-Grandfriend experience in a more interactive and exciting way, through photos, as opposed to Facebook or other forms of social media. It is one of the most relevant digital platforms used by college students and will allow for easy access to our website. Our profile bio will include information about the three of us, that we are Davidson College Seniors taking a digital design course, our collective interest in mental health, our project, our Instagram page’s purpose, and a link to our website.

Using Instagram as a way to connect with other relevant sources, will bring us into meaningful conversation directly with the organizations and individuals that work so closely to establish and publicize intergenerational programming around the world. Hashtags and locations on posts will also aid in the immediate relationship between these various programs. We aim to not only join but to facilitate relevant conversations because we feel that we are able to contribute stories and information about intergenerational relationships that are not widely shared.

Some hashtags to consider: #intergenerational#grandfriend#grandparent#mentalhealth#studentactivities#elderlylove#studentengagement#DavidsonCollege #communityengagement #buildingcommunity #Davidsonservice #youthempowerment#belonging#agefriendly

Some relevant communities and people on social media:
1. Rep. Sara Innamorato – Representative of the 21st District in Pennsylvania
Her Instagram
Her Twitter
2. Intergenerational Connections – Facebook group that has an ongoing conversation about intergenerational programs and how to better connect young and old.
3. Erin L. Raffety ‘04 – Cultural anthropologist and Davidson College Alumna who wrote a dissertation on intergenerational approaches to Chinese child-rearing.

Sustainability
We plan on building our site on Nicolette’s domain. As every individual on this team will be graduating in May, we anticipate switching the website over to the president of Adopt-A-Grandfriend, who will most likely be Jack Casey. We also plan to include the advisor of the organization to ensure that the website doesn’t get lost or become irrelevant after the students graduate or leave the program. Additionally, we would like to move our site to digitalprojects.davidson.edu, to ensure that our progress and information is kept on a platform that stays relevant and interactive within the Davidson-specific community.

Ideally, we would like our site to exist alongside the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program so that the president and participants can use it and update it based on how the program develops. A reassessment of our website and its future potential with the Adopt-A-Grandfriend club will occur by May 5th, when our final project is due. We will ensure that there will be someone to pass on the administrative access.

We will allow our website’s viewers to post comments because it will further facilitate community and show that feedback and sharing other individual stories are appreciated. While we predict our Instagram profile will be updated more frequently, allowing viewers to comment on our website will help us identify what information needs clarification. Based on the comments, the website admins may need to respond. Therefore, whoever is the admin after us will take over this responsibility as well. We are going to share administrative access to the domain with whoever is in charge of the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program in the future so that they can take over the site duties and post updates, stories, and possibly the semester schedule for the club. This also includes sharing our Instagram with the site leader and ensuring that both elements of our project be kept up to date and share similar information.

PLEDGED: MS, NS, CE

Outreach and Sustainability Plan: Intergenerational Mental Health

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Outreach

Community Resources:

  1. Georgia Ringle – Davidson College Health Educator
    1. Share project? Yes; we already met with Georgia to discuss our project and get resource recommendations both on and off-campus. We think that our website could be a beneficial resource for the Davidson College Center for Student Health and Well-Being because they can direct students to it to learn more about the mental health benefits of intergenerational relationships and how to get involved with Adopt-A-Grandfriend.
  2. Jack Casey – President of Adopt-A-Grandfriend at Davidson College
    1. Share project? We believe that our website, once established, will be useful for this student organization, which is currently run by Jack Casey. The website will advertise future events and serve as a digital space to preserve memories. We plan to include student and senior testimonies that will encourage more students to participate in Adopt-A-Grandfriend at Davidson College.
  3. Kristi Multhaup, PhD – Davidson College Professor and Chair of Psychology
    1. Share project? Yes; Dr. Multhaup’s expertise and research surrounding cognitive aging will allow us to learn from a scholar and professor who knows about the subject and could provide us with further research to explore. In order to create the most accurate representative platform for intergenerational programming, her opinion may be a crucial part of how we connect scholarship to Adopt-A-Grandfriend. 
  4. Adopt-A-Grandfriend student participants at Davidson College
    1. Share project? Yes; the student participants are an integral part of our project because they can provide us with the personal narratives we want to collect and share on our website. In order to get their permission to share their stories, we have to inform them of our project and how the information they provide will be used. 
  5. Adopt-A-Grandfriend adult participants
    1. Share project? Yes; the adult participants are also an integral part of our project because we also want to collect narratives from them as well. As stated above, in order to get their permission to share their stories on our website, we have to let them know about our project and how the information they give us will be used. 

Social Media

We have facilitated communication with a couple of our sources via our Davidson College  emails, which connects us to a credible and noteworthy school.

To build upon our current Davidson network, we will utilize Facebook to find other intergenerational programs and professionals who study intergenerational programming. All three of our Facebook profiles are established as legitimate Davidson College students. We believe that this will come across as more trustworthy than trying to reach out to scholars via a newly made account that has no followers, nor previous posts.

We will also create an Instagram account for our project that informs followers about intergenerational programming benefits, promotes Adopt-A-Grandparent events and shares pictures from Adopt-A-Grandfriend. By following other Davidson College and local Instagram accounts, and hopefully receiving a follow-back request, we can establish legitimacy in the Davidson community. Our goal for this account is to create a convenient space that compels students to participate in the experience. Instagram has the ability to publicise the Adopt-A-Grandfriend experience in a more interactive and exciting way, through photos, as opposed to Facebook or other forms of social media. It is one of the most relevant digital platforms used by college students, and will allow for easy access to our website. Our profile bio will include information about the three of us, that we are Davidson College Seniors taking a digital design course, our collective interest in mental health, our project, our Instagram page’s purpose, and a link to our website.

Using Instagram as a way to connect with other relevant sources, will bring us into meaningful conversation directly with the organizations and individuals that work so closely to establish and publicise intergenerational programming around the world. Hashtags and locations on posts will also aid in the immediate relationship of these various programs. We aim to not only join, but to facilitate relevant conversations because we feel that we are able to contribute stories and information about intergenerational relationships that are not widely shared.

Some hashtags to consider: #intergenerational#grandfriend#grandparent#mentalhealth#studentactivities#elderlylove#studentengagement#DavidsonCollege #communityengagement #buildingcommunity #Davidsonservice #youthempowerment#belonging#agefriendly

Some relevant communities and people on social media:
1. Rep. Sara Innamorato – Representative of the 21st District in Pennsylvania
Her Instagram
Her Twitter
2. Intergenerational Connections – Facebook group that has an ongoing conversation about intergenerational programs and how to better connect young and old.
3. Erin L. Raffety ‘04 – Cultural anthropologist and Davidson College Alumna who wrote a dissertation on intergenerational approaches to Chinese child rearing.

Sustainability

We plan on building our site on Nicolette’s domain. As every individual on this team will be graduating in May, we anticipate switching the website over to the president of Adopt-A-Grandfriend, who will most likely be Jack Casey. We also plan to include the advisor of the organization to ensure that the website doesn’t get lost or become irrelevant after the students graduate or leave the program. Additionally, we would like to move our site to digitalprojects.davidson.edu, to ensure that our progress and information is kept on a platform that stays relevant and interactive within the Davidson-specific community.

Ideally we would like our site to exist alongside the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program so that the president and participants can use it and update it based on how the program develops. A reassessment of our website and its future potential with the Adopt-A-Grandfriend club will occur by May 5th, when our final project is due. We will ensure that there will be someone to pass on the administrative access.

We will allow our website’s viewers to post comments because it will further facilitate community and show that feedback and sharing other individual stories are appreciated. While we predict our Instagram profile will be updated more frequently, allowing viewers to comment on our website will help us identify what information needs clarification. Based on the comments, the website admins may need to respond. Therefore, whoever is the admin after us will take over this responsibility as well. We are going to share administrative access to the domain with whomever is in charge of the Adopt-A-Grandfriend program in the future so that they can take over the site duties and post updates, stories, and possibly the semester schedule for the club. This also includes sharing our Instagram with the site leader and ensuring that both elements of our project be kept up to date and share similar information.

PLEDGED: MS, NS, CE

Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Queer Narratives: A Digital Zine

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This project will examine emerging artificial intelligence technologies and how they use queer narratives to raise questions about the nature of identity and personhood itself. We plan to tackle this question through the lense of a digital influencer and self-identifying queer robot called Lil Miquela, who emerged as a digital presence in 2016 and whose narrative is controlled by a California startup. It’s important that we approach our research of this topic from two angles: the journalistic think-pieces that provide context and commentary surrounding Lil Miquela, and academic sources such as the cyborg manifesto, which provide a larger history and context to the study of artificial personhood. 

We want to present our conclusions about artificial personhood and queerness in a zine format. Zines are already associated with queer media, and digitalizing this format aligns with our project’s theme of digitalizing queerness itself. We want to present scholarly information such as Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto in an interactive and accessible way. Scholarly sources should be in direct, side-by-side conversation with journalistic sources on Lil Miquela and AI startups using queer narratives. By using a zine format, we also hope to open this discussion to people outside of the world of GSS and academia.

In order to convey our message, we could include: 

  • Examples of Lil Miquela’s tweets, vlog entries, and Instagram posts that demonstrate her borrowing of queer narratives.
  • A place for viewers to enter the discussion via live chat, where they can comment on our input as well as the sources. 
  • Artistic breakdown of background information from both journalistic and scholarly sources, animation of key quotes to introduce the viewer to the world of queer AI. 

We are researching the implications of artificial personhood on queer identities because we want to know what the future of this technology means for LGBTQ+ people. We want our audience to question the ways in which companies use queer stories and bodies for profit, how an artificial identity is created through coding and storytelling, and how these ideas could evolve in the future. 

Some questions we plan to explore are: 

  • How does artificial intelligence challenge our assumptions about identity and personhood? 
  • Why does someone like Lil Miquela, who claims multiple marginalized identities despite being a robot, attract profit for ad companies? 
  • How do robots and artificial beings bring out a fear of the “other” in society and how might this be compared to fear of actual queer people? 
  • What does it mean that Lil Miquela’s content is written by a team of creators rather than by coding? How does this make her different than a fictional character?

Lil Miquela and Artificial Intelligence: Works Cited

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Chambers, Ross. “The Queer and the Creepy: Western Fictions of Artificial Life.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2005, pp. 19–35. 

Hollinger, Veronica. “ʹSomething Like a Fictionʹ: Speculative Intersections of Sexuality and Technology.” Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, edited by Wendy Gay Pearson et al., 1st ed., vol. 37, Liverpool University Press, 2008, pp. 140–160.

Ruberg, Bonnie, et al. “Toward a Queer Digital Humanities.” Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis; London, 2018, pp. 108–128.

Sauers , Jenna. “Life After Fiction: The Future of Lil Miquela.” Cultured Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019, www.culturedmag.com/lil-miquela/.

Thweatt-Bates, J. Jeanine. “Artificial Wombs and Cyborg Births: Postgenderism and Theology.” Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement, edited by Ronald Cole-Turner, Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C., 2011, pp. 101–114.

Tiffany, Kaitlyn. “Virtual Influencers Have Got to Be a Fad – Right?” Vox, Vox, 3 June 2019, www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/6/3/18647626/instagram-virtual-influencers-lil-miquela-ai-startups.

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Risam, Roopika. “What Passes for Human?: Undermining the Universal Subject in Digital Humanities Praxis.” Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis; London, 2018, pp. 39–56. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv9hj9r9.6. Accessed 6 Feb. 2020.

Risam’s article looks at various digital humanities and robotics projects done within the past decade to highlight the insidious ways they present a “universal subject” that is still very much premised on racist colonial conceptions of the “human.” Looking at Microsoft’s AI chatbot “Tay,” Hanson Robotics’ Sophia, and the LaMem project, alongside a few other DH projects, Risam underscores critical elisions in methodology and claims to universality. Most importantly, Risam somewhat follows Safiya Noble’s argument about the critical importance of the manual labor conditions that underpin DH and robotic work. Looking at the corporation Amazon Mechanical Turk, Risam argues that the lack of information about labor pools, and who is doing basic input coding, is a huge issue. He links this argument to the broader lack of information available about various large algorithms and how they function and claims this is a primarily site for decolonizing intervention in the digital humanities.

Sauers, Jenna. “Life After Fiction: The Future of Lil Miquela.” Cultured Mag, 23 April 2019, https://www.culturedmag.com/lil-miquela/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2020.

In a very coherent piece for Cultured magazine, Jenna Sauers offers an explanatory background on Miquela Sosa (Lil Miquela is the CGI character’s stage name) and poses questions about Miquela’s creators- a mysterious “digital media startup” called Blud. Sauers is focused on the confusion the CGI influencer causes her audience. Why are people willing to suspend their disbelief about her being a physical reality when, logically, most people know robots have not reached this level of technical advancement? What does this aura of mystery create for Blud? While generally pessimistic about what Miquela means in regards to commodification of social justice language, Sauers most interesting argument is that she can be interpreted as a “useful” primer for ethical questions about AI that we are sure to encounter very soon.

Shram, Brian. “Accidental Orientations: Rethinking Queerness in Archival Times.” Surveillance & Society, vol. 17, no. 5, 2019, pp. 602-617, ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance -and-society/article/view/8688. Accessed 6 Feb. 2020.

Shram interrogates theoretical conceptions of “Queerness” in the age of Big Data and surveillance. Building on previous Big Data studies, specifically focused on Facebook, Shram illustrates how surveillance culture minutely categorizes subjects and nearly eliminates “the margins and in-between spaces,” where scholars of the 90’s theorized as liberatory. However, Shram focuses on how algorithms’ inherent “performative capacities” can also lead users into different queer online terrain and questions the ontological implications of one’s “data double” being assamblaged as queer without one’s knowledge.


Annotated Bibliography: Intergenerational Programs and the Benefits of Fostering Relationships Between Two Different Generations of People

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Primary Sources

We will work throughout our research to find individuals and programs that work directly with an intergenerational construct, including the Grandfriends program at Davidson College, as well as various other community based organizations that work directly with The Pines and Ada Jenkins. We will also work to navigate spaces where there are natural points of interaction within the elderly and youth communities, where interactions are natural and frequent.

Secondary Sources

Powell, Judith A., and George E. Arquitt. “Getting the Generations Back Together: A Rationale for Development of Community Based Intergenerational Interaction Programs.” The Family Coordinator, vol. 27, no. 4, 1978, pp. 421–26, doi:10.2307/583446. JSTOR. —. “Getting the Generations Back Together: A Rationale for Development of Community Based Intergenerational Interaction Programs.” The Family Coordinator, vol. 27, no. 4, 1978, pp. 421–26, doi:10.2307/583446. JSTOR.

This article outlines the fragmentation of the extended family, the elimination of neighborhoods as a social entity and the emphasis on age segregated voluntary associations, which have caused a decrease in opportunities for individuals to make meaningful relationships across generations. For the most part, institutions that have been created to attend to the needs of particular groups of people have been kept separate from each other, which has caused, they argue, for us to isolate further from one another. The authors seem to give particular attention to how accessing the older generation’s knowledge and experiences are a privilege, and that utilizing would be increasingly beneficial.

The author outlines the intention of this paper, in conversation with other scholars, to work to highlight the literature already out there on intergenerational programming, and present programming suggestions to help individuals research and create spaces where intergenerational programming is best used. In the Literature Review section of this article, the author draws on scholars who are unable to draw definite conclusions. Based on statistical analysis, there is no real conclusive empirical evidence that states that all stereotyping across generations is negative. It outlines scholars’ investigations on the attitudes towards older adults among youth, attitudes towards youth from older adults, and the effects of intergeneration interaction. Scholarly reports on the attitudes of the elderly are shown to be inclusive, showing distinction between data.  The attitudes towards youth are dependent on life satisfaction and good relationships with an older person’s own children.  had negative opinions about growing old themselves, though not about the elderly generation currently. Once both groups interact, however, there appears to be a trend between positive attitudes relating to perceptions of other generations and direct contact with them.

This article concludes that there is not enough research out there relating to places where non-familial ties between generations are not a constant, and that studies have been done as a result of convenience. Consequently, they propose to develop local community intergeneration interactional programs which would establish consistent relationships between various generations within different institutions. This would allow for relationships to build based on previously limited interaction and unrelated individuals. Particular steps outlined include one-to-one consistent contact, where the young and old might live and eat together within an educational setting or where the older generation serves as teachers. Economic advantage is considered, through community volunteering which would prove to have minimal costs.

The article proves to be helpful for our project in providing information on both the cause of generational speeration, and a need for intergenerational relationships to develop further. The authors extensively culminate case studies and scholarly work to understand where there are holes in the larger research, and what programs are best utilized.

Prose, John L. “Changing Adolescent Behaviors Toward the Elderly.” Educational Horizons, vol. 62, no. 3, 1984, pp. 102–03, https://www.jstor.org/stable/42924596. JSTOR.

This article attends to the idea that negative attitudes about the elderly are widespread based on separation within society by critically analyzing a particular study between high school juniors (ages 16 and 17) and individuals or couples over the age of 70. John Prose touches upon other scholarship, including many in the late 1970s that suggest that adolescents’ impressions showed old people to be “flexible, yet complex”, showing neutral and slightly positive opinions of the elderly. A separate study done by Ahammer and Baltes shows adolescents to be highly socially interested in their elderly relatives.

The article transitions to the positive effects of intergenerational programming and experiencing, the experiment highlighted prior to an analysis of other research work. Forty-five minute presentations were given to the 21 junior high school students, to inform them about aging. Students were required to visit an individual over a three-week period, and during the tenth week, a group session was required for all participants. The results concluded that teaching adolescents about aging positively affected their attitudes towards aging. Results were additionally attained by a self-evaluation and reflection.

The author gives a source to explore a variety of different programs that have the potential to do good things for a society shift. However, there appears to be no real exploration as to why these programs are not already thriving and ongoing. This case study provides tangible exploration into the minds of students and a deep shift in stereotypical opinions of cross-generation representation. Though its limited in the ways it reflects upon the problems that prohibit such experiences from happening.

Ventura-Merkel, Catherine, and Marc Freedman. “Helping At-Risk Youth through Intergenerational Programming.” Children Today, vol. 17, no. 1, Feb. 1988, pp. 10–13, https://search.proquest.com/docview/63205887/269B08306E864C9EPQ/19.

This journal article provides a look into how societal constructs have changed, and the problems that arise between generations as a result. It indicates that intergenerational programming can positively affect at-risk youth, who have been a product of neglect from familial elders, as well as just simply cast aside by society. It first outlines the cause of isolation that has developed between generations and highlight the changing familial structure. Many of the generations past had to care for every member of the house, and interact with individuals of all ages. Now institutions that segregate age prevent this from happening. Additionally, the development of nuclear families and the creation of diverse family structure widen the gap between generations. This division ultimately leads to a competition between generations and a falsified understanding of intergeneration burden.

This article relates to our project in ways of understanding the reason for intergenerational programming. It reflects upon the ways in which our society has developed that has caused divide, without fully appreciating that its there., unless you’ve been a part of previous generation of people who have experienced intimacy. However, Freedman and Ventura-Merkel argues that these starting programs are working and initiatives like Foster Grandparent programs and unique projects pulled at the grass-roots level are the best sources of departure. However, this article does draw on solely how at-risk youth benefit, rather than both generations involved. This shows bias towards this program helping those seemingly in-need of it. It touches upon youths who need this programming the most are “turned-off”, angry, disadvantaged or are failing in school and need an interactive and intimate relationship.

The article then leads to talk about the specific examples of programs that harness talents of elders for at-risk youth around the United States and how they differ depending on the needs of the younger generation within a given area. The information appears comprehensive and specific, with contact information and addresses relating to each individual program. The descriptions are short, which would require us to find more information relating to each piece, though thorough with highlighting unique qualities.

Tertiary Sources

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

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Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

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Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

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Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

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Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

·

Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

·

Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

·

Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

·

Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

·

Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

Annotated Bibliography: Epilogues

·

Topic: Syrian refugee relocation narratives, particularly their lives after resettlement

Primary sources: 

Hardship, Hope, and Resettlement: Refugees from Syria Tell their Stories. Amnesty International Publications, 2015. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This book from Amnesty International Publications focuses mainly on pieces of harrowing interviews of Syrian refugees about their experiences in Syria, their experiences fleeing the country, and their life after resettlement, combining images with the interviews for greater emotional impact. This source is almost identical to our topic; the main difference seems to be the broad scope of the interviews. While this book describes refugee narratives from the beginning of the conflict in their country to their current living situation, we will focus more on the current living situation of refugees in the US with only a small background segment about their time in Syria and the transition to the US. Furthermore, we will likely have much longer interviews that go more in-depth, and hopefully are accompanied by audio narration. The particular argument briefly pitched in the beginning of the book is that there is a strong need for resettlement of Syrian refugees from countries surrounding Syria to different safe countries, specifically those of targeted demographics such as the queer community, unaccompanied children, and those with pressing medical needs. This claim is defended through the eight interviews they have compiled. The work appears to be written for the general public in hopes of raising awareness about violations of refugee human rights and causing them to become activists, either by joining Amnesty International or working on their own. The book was posted by a well-known human rights organization of over 7 million people, Amnesty International, in 2015.

Hawkey, Sean. “WCC FEATURE: One Refugee’s Story: From Syria to France.” PR Newswire Africa, English ed. ed., Jan 07 2016, ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

This story by Sean Hawkey from PR Newswire Africa is mainly an interview with a pseudonymized refugee, Azad, about his journey so far from Syria to The Jungle, an illegal refugee camp in Calais, France, and the terrible living conditions of the camp as well as the need for aid. While there is no verbalized argument in the piece, it is clear that Hawkey is writing to push people and governments to provide aid for illegal camps like The Jungle. This source is somewhat related to our topic; while Azad is in a camp, and therefore not permanently settled, he has made it to a third country where he could potentially settle. Furthermore, it discusses the amount of aid refugees are receiving from people and governments, something we want to delve into in our own work. However, his process of relocation is not over, differentiating the source somewhat from our project. The evidence Hawkey uses to push for aid is shocking information about the camp both from what he has observed and from the interview with Azad. The article appears to be written for the general public in the hopes that they will help push the government to provide more aid to refugees, particularly those in unrecognized illegal camps. Hawkey is a freelance photographer with work in The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and much more, and he published this article in PR Newswire Africa in January of 2016.

Secondary sources:

Lenette, Caroline. “‘I Am a Widow, Mother and Refugee’: Narratives of Two Refugee Widows Resettled to Australia.” Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014): 403-21. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2020.

Caroline Lenette’s article focuses on the definition and impact of widowhood on refugees through the comparison of different constructions of widowhood in different cultures as well as a case study on two widowed refugees living in Australia. While there are certainly several aspects of the article that differentiate it from our topic, such as the interviewing of refugees from South Sudan, as opposed to Syria, and the focus on widowhood, the source is still strongly related as its focus is still the narratives of refugees who have resettled in what is presumably their new home. Furthermore, we are interested in learning how children impact the experiences of their parents post-resettlement. Lenette calls upon several sources to support her claims, such as an article about UN women and the Loomba Foundation joining to empower widows, K-L Chou’s study of psychological distress in immigrants who are 50 or older, which depicted significantly more distress in widows and divorcees, and several more. Through these studies, as well as the case study, she begins to depict the difficulties, nuances, and opportunities of refugee widowhood, and concludes by pushing for further research and exploration of the term. The work seems to have been written mainly for specialists in the hopes of prompting further conversation and research about widowhood in the refugee community in various contexts throughout the world. Caroline Lenette, an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, published this work in the peer-reviewed Journal of Refugee Studies in 2014.

Tertiary sources: None

Pledged: SJB

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