Spatial agency as a source of resistance and resilience among Palestinian children living in Dheisheh refugee camp, Palestine

Veronese, Guido; Sousa, Cindy; Cavazzoni, Federica; Shoman, Hala

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102304

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“…Most (75%) of the studies were published in the past five years, and half of them were conducted in the USA. One of the included articles examined a local refugee camp in Palestine [ 41 ]. Most of the studies were qualitative, while there was one quantitative study, which observed the number of park users before and after park development for refugees [ 37 ].…”

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“…PA was measured either as self-report or parent-report in 7 studies. One study used observation by researchers [ 37 ], while two studies combined observation and self-report measures [ 39 , 41 ]. Demographics of participants in these studies were as follows: the majority (63%) of the studies investigated children from multi-ethnic backgrounds, and 37% of them came from Muslim countries.…”

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“… HIC, Sweden No specific, multi-ethnic < 6 months meso N = 20 self-report 6 MacMillan et al [ 40 ] 2015 qual. HIC, Australia *Iran, Indonesia,Pakistan, Malaysia, Kenya, Uganda < 6 months meso N = 19 self-report 7 Veronese et al [ 41 ] 2020 qual. LMIC, Palestine *Palestine < 6 months micro (refugee camp), meso (school, community) N = 29 observation and self-report 8 Wieland et al [ 42 ] 2015 qual.…”

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“…Informal space for PA includes any urban spaces "meso" refers to neighbourhood environments unless otherwise specified that are readily and freely available by refugee children. Such spaces enable children to engage in physically active, spontaneous play [14,15,40,41]. Children mentioned that there was a lack of space to gather and play as a group, and this appeared to discourage them from engaging in PA [42].…”

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Research has identified built environmental attributes associated with children’s physical activity (PA); however, less is known for environmental correlates of refugee children’s PA. This narrative review summarised the current evidence of associations between built environment attributes and refugee children’s PA. Six databases were searched with three sets of terms related to exposure (built environment); outcome (PA); and target population (refugee children aged 6–12 years). Eight studies (one quantitative; seven qualitative) met the inclusion criteria. Key PA barriers were limited play space and lack of neighbourhood safety. Design of refugee facilities and surrounding environments should provide better access to formal, informal and safe spaces for children’s play.

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“…These processes involve elements such as self-determination, self-organization and competence. Such aspects for instance, are essential for enhancing the psychological well-being of children who live in detention like refugee camps (Veronese et al, 2020).…”

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Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion

Nijs

Nicolaou

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Worldwide, children face adverse childhood experiences, being exposed to risks ranging from, exposure to political violence and forced migration over the deleterious effects of climate change, to unsafe cultural practices. As a consequence, children that seek refuge or migrate to European countries are extremely vulnerable, often struggling with integration in school, peer community, and their broader social circle. This multifaceted struggle can derive from external factors, such as the adaptation process and contact with other children, or internal factors such as the fears and trauma that every child carries within them since they departed from their homeland. To bounce, grow, connect, and create in both adversity and opportunity, children need to build resilience, i.e., the capacity of an individual to maintain stable psychological functioning throughout the course of adversity. On the one hand, building resilience requires developing a set of individual skills (internal protective factors), such as self-control, emotion regulation, self-esteem, and agency. On the other hand, building resilience involves developing social skills (external protective factors), connection, and close relationships. In this theoretical contribution, we review and map existing research to argue that activities based on the combination of music and movement has a strong potential to intensively build resilience. First, we connect the concepts of resilience and eudaimonia, based on the protective factors and key components of resilience. Then we discuss how music and movement, separately, may contribute to building resilience. Next, drawing on the basic mechanisms of musical sense-making, we argue that through combining music and movement, children engage in empowering musical sense-making processes that support building resilience, and in this way, support them to grow together and deeply experience eudaimonic values such as self-awareness, confidence and self-esteem, personal autonomy, connection, belonging, and bonding. Finally, we connect theory to practice. Based on the presented theoretical elaborations and on the authors’ experience as practitioners, we propose a set of guiding principles for the design of movement-based musical activities that foster the internal and external factors necessary to build resilience.

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Environmental concerns, physical and mental health among Palestinians: the mediating roles of optimism, pessimism and meaning in life

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Veronese,

Mahamid

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J Public Health (Berl.)

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We investigated the association between environmental concerns, health and mental health among Palestinians and whether optimism, pessimism and meaning in life mediate the association between these variables. The sample of our study consisted or 504 participants were selected using online tools.The ndings revealed that pessimism negatively correlated with optimism, mental health, physical health, and meaning in life, while optimism positively correlated with mental health, physical health, and meaning in life and negatively correlated with environmental concerns. Moreover, meaning in life correlated negatively with environmental concerns. Structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis showed that optimism, pessimism, and meaning in life mediate the correlation between environmental concerns, health and mental health with a good t for our model. In the case of Palestinian territories, environmental concerns and issues are driven mainly by politics affecting people's health and mental well-being. Therefore, it is recommended to conduct similar studies to explore protective factors against environmental concerns in the Palestinian context, which will help develop appropriate interventions to enhance mental health in a society characterized by high stressors and prolonged trauma

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Spatial agency as a source of resistance and resilience among Palestinian children living in Dheisheh refugee camp, Palestine

Cited by 43 publications

References 68 publications

Built-environment attributes associated with refugee children’s physical activity: a narrative review and research agenda

Built-environment attributes associated with refugee children’s physical activity: a narrative review and research agenda

Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion

Environmental concerns, physical and mental health among Palestinians: the mediating roles of optimism, pessimism and meaning in life

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