Role of shared identity in social support among refugees of conflict in developing countries

Project description

To explore the role of shared emergent "refugee" identity in facilitating support among urban refugees in developing countries, and possible impact of such support on their well-being

Researchers

First name Last name Gender Rank Affiliated Institution Country
Khalifah Alfadhli Male King Saud University Saudi Arabia

Bio: PhD in social psychology from University of Sussex, UK.

John Drury Male United Kingdom

Bio: core research interests is crowd psychology, specifically: (1) collective action participation as a source of psychological transformation (including politicisation, empowerment and wellbeing); (2) collective resilience in mass emergencies and disasters; (3) cognitive, behavioural and emotional reactions to situations of crowding; (4) the problem of spontaneous coordination (from pedestrian flow to social movements); and (5) the practical and political implications of pathologizing (versus liberatory) discursive constructions of crowds.

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Scientific field

Psychology
 

Start Year

2015
 

End Year

2018
 

Social impact

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No

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