Mulheres africanas migrantes: histórias de agência e pertencimento

This paper explores issues of belonging and agency among asylum seekers and refugee women of African origin in the UK. It discusses the ways these women engendered resistance in their everyday life to destitution, lack of cultural recognition, and gender inequality thorough the foundation of their own nongovernmental organization, African Women’s Empowerment Forum, AWEF, a collective ‘home’ space. The focus of this story is on migrant women’s agency and self-determination for the exercise of choice to be active actors in society. It points to what might be an important phenomenon on how local grassroots movements are challenging the invisibility of asylum-seekers’ and refugees’ lives and expanding the notion of politics to embrace a wider notion of community politics with solidarity. AWEF is the embodiment of a social space that resonates the ‘in-between’ experience of migrant life providing stability to the women members regarding political and community identification.Este artigo explora questões de pertencimento e agência entre mulheres de origem africana refugiadas ou em busca de asilo político no Reino Unido. Discute as maneiras pelas quais essas mulheres incorporam a resistência em seu dia a dia frente à indigência, falta de reconhecimento cultural e à desigualdade de gênero, através da fundação de sua própria organização não-governamental, a African Women’s Empowerment Forum, ou AWEF, um lar/espaço coletivo. O foco desta história está na agência e autodeterminação dessas mulheres migrantes para exercitar a escolha de serem atores ativos na sociedade. Aponta para um importante fenômeno: como comunidades com base local estão desafiando a invisibilidade da vida de refugiados e asilados, expandindo a noção de política para abraçar, através da solidariedade, uma ideia mais ampla sobre comunidades políticas. A AWEF é a incorporação de um espaço social que ressoa as experiências internas da vida migrante, promovendo estabilidade às mulheres associadas com relação à política e à identificação com a comunidade em que se inserem

Migrant African women: tales of agency and belonging

This paper explores issues of belonging and agency among asylum seekers and refugee women of African origin in the UK. It discusses the ways these women engendered resistance in their everyday life to destitution, lack of cultural recognition, and gender inequality through the foundation of their own non-governmental organization, African Women’s Empowerment Forum, AWEF, a collective ‘home’ space. The focus of this account is on migrant women’s agency and self-determination for the exercise of choice to be active actors in society. It points to what might be an important phenomenon on how local grassroots movements are challenging the invisibility of asylum seekers’ and refugees’ lives and expanding the notion of politics to embrace a wider notion of community politics with solidarity. AWEF is the embodiment of a social space that resonates the ‘in-between’ experience of migrant life providing stability to the women members regarding political and community identification

Migrant african women: tales of agency and belonging

Este artigo explora questões de pertencimento e agência entre mulheres de origem africana refugiadas ou em busca de asilo político no Reino Unido. Discute as maneiras pelas quais essas mulheres incorporam a resistência em seu dia a dia frente à indigência, falta de reconhecimento cultural e à desigualdade de gênero, através da fundação de sua própria organização não-governamental, a African Women’s Empowerment Forum, ou AWEF, um lar/espaço coletivo. O foco desta história está na agência e autodeterminação dessas mulheres migrantes para exercitar a escolha de serem atores ativos na sociedade. Aponta para um importante fenômeno: como comunidades com base local estão desafiando a invisibilidade da vida de refugiados e asilados, expandindo a noção de política para abraçar, através da solidariedade, uma ideia mais ampla sobre comunidades políticas. A AWEF é a incorporação de um espaço social que ressoa as experiências internas da vida migrante, promovendo estabilidade às mulheres associadas com relação à política e à identificação com a comunidade em que se inserem.This paper explores issues of belonging and agency among asylum seekers and refugee women of African origin in the UK. It discusses the ways these women engendered resistance in their everyday life to destitution, lack of cultural recognition, and gender inequality thorough the foundation of their own nongovernmental organization, African Women’s Empowerment Forum, AWEF, a collective ‘home’ space. The focus of this story is on migrant women’s agency and self-determination for the exercise of choice to be active actors in society. It points to what might be an important phenomenon on how local grassroots movements are challenging the invisibility of asylum-seekers’ and refugees’ lives and expanding the notion of politics to embrace a wider notion of community politics with solidarity. AWEF is the embodiment of a social space that resonates the ‘in-between’ experience of migrant life providing stability to the women members regarding political and community identification

Racialized 'othering': the representation of asylum seekers in news media

© 2005. Reproduced with the kind permission of Open University Press. For further information about this title see http://mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780335214846.htmlAn incident occurred off Australian territorial waters on 26 August 2001 that had significant consequences in the Australian parliamentary elections held that year. A Norwegian ship, the Tampa, rescued 433 survivors, mostly asylum seekers, from a sinking Indonesian ferry and took them to Christmas Island , part of Australian territory. Categorizing the rescued passengers of the Tampa as 'boatpeople' and 'illegal immigrants', the ruling Liberal Party sought to appeal to sections of the electorate by having Australian Special Forces board the ship in an attempt to stop the passengers from disembarking on Christmas Island - and thus being in a position to apply for asylum. What is of interest to our present concerns, however, is the role of the press in what subsequently came to be referred to as the Tampa affair. Some of the popular newspapers carried stories which reproduced the language of the government, as indicated in the headline in the front page of the Herald Sun on 31 August 2001: 'BACK OFF: Howard rejects UN call to take illegals'

Transformaciones en la mediatización y percepciones diferenciadas sobre el concepto de medios de comunicación alternativos

La diversidad de los procesos de reconfiguración de los espacios mediáticos en sus aspectos socioculturales y de producción de sentido han demandado grandes esfuerzos de investigación e interpretación en el campo de los estudios de los medios de comunicación en la última década, principalmente en las concepciones que articulan las transformaciones en las mediatizaciones con el surgimiento de nuevos medios de comunicación alternativos. La mediatización está en el centro de las interacciones de la vida cotidiana, organizando casi todos los aspectos de la existencia, desde el amplio mosaico de las instituciones sociales y de los sistemas culturales, hasta los encuentros más íntimos del cotidiano. En la actualidad, no podemos entender la sociedad en que vivimos sin entender el alcance de los procesos de transformación en la mediatización; la renegociación de significados; y los constantes cambios que surgen en las políticas de mediación. Este trabajo es un abordaje transversal a las investigaciones empíricas del campo mediático, asociando las transformaciones en la mediatización a percepciones diferenciadas en la discusión sobre el concepto de medios de comunicación alternativos

Ticagrelor in patients with diabetes and stable coronary artery disease with a history of previous percutaneous coronary intervention (THEMIS-PCI) : a phase 3, placebo-controlled, randomised trial

Background: Patients with stable coronary artery disease and diabetes with previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), particularly those with previous stenting, are at high risk of ischaemic events. These patients are generally treated with aspirin. In this trial, we aimed to investigate if these patients would benefit from treatment with aspirin plus ticagrelor. Methods: The Effect of Ticagrelor on Health Outcomes in diabEtes Mellitus patients Intervention Study (THEMIS) was a phase 3 randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, done in 1315 sites in 42 countries. Patients were eligible if 50 years or older, with type 2 diabetes, receiving anti-hyperglycaemic drugs for at least 6 months, with stable coronary artery disease, and one of three other mutually non-exclusive criteria: a history of previous PCI or of coronary artery bypass grafting, or documentation of angiographic stenosis of 50% or more in at least one coronary artery. Eligible patients were randomly assigned (1:1) to either ticagrelor or placebo, by use of an interactive voice-response or web-response system. The THEMIS-PCI trial comprised a prespecified subgroup of patients with previous PCI. The primary efficacy outcome was a composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke (measured in the intention-to-treat population). Findings: Between Feb 17, 2014, and May 24, 2016, 11 154 patients (58% of the overall THEMIS trial) with a history of previous PCI were enrolled in the THEMIS-PCI trial. Median follow-up was 3·3 years (IQR 2·8–3·8). In the previous PCI group, fewer patients receiving ticagrelor had a primary efficacy outcome event than in the placebo group (404 [7·3%] of 5558 vs 480 [8·6%] of 5596; HR 0·85 [95% CI 0·74–0·97], p=0·013). The same effect was not observed in patients without PCI (p=0·76, p interaction=0·16). The proportion of patients with cardiovascular death was similar in both treatment groups (174 [3·1%] with ticagrelor vs 183 (3·3%) with placebo; HR 0·96 [95% CI 0·78–1·18], p=0·68), as well as all-cause death (282 [5·1%] vs 323 [5·8%]; 0·88 [0·75–1·03], p=0·11). TIMI major bleeding occurred in 111 (2·0%) of 5536 patients receiving ticagrelor and 62 (1·1%) of 5564 patients receiving placebo (HR 2·03 [95% CI 1·48–2·76], p<0·0001), and fatal bleeding in 6 (0·1%) of 5536 patients with ticagrelor and 6 (0·1%) of 5564 with placebo (1·13 [0·36–3·50], p=0·83). Intracranial haemorrhage occurred in 33 (0·6%) and 31 (0·6%) patients (1·21 [0·74–1·97], p=0·45). Ticagrelor improved net clinical benefit: 519/5558 (9·3%) versus 617/5596 (11·0%), HR=0·85, 95% CI 0·75–0·95, p=0·005, in contrast to patients without PCI where it did not, p interaction=0·012. Benefit was present irrespective of time from most recent PCI. Interpretation: In patients with diabetes, stable coronary artery disease, and previous PCI, ticagrelor added to aspirin reduced cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, and stroke, although with increased major bleeding. In that large, easily identified population, ticagrelor provided a favourable net clinical benefit (more than in patients without history of PCI). This effect shows that long-term therapy with ticagrelor in addition to aspirin should be considered in patients with diabetes and a history of PCI who have tolerated antiplatelet therapy, have high ischaemic risk, and low bleeding risk

Clinical and genetic characteristics of late-onset Huntington's disease

Background: The frequency of late-onset Huntington's disease (&gt;59 years) is assumed to be low and the clinical course milder. However, previous literature on late-onset disease is scarce and inconclusive. Objective: Our aim is to study clinical characteristics of late-onset compared to common-onset HD patients in a large cohort of HD patients from the Registry database. Methods: Participants with late- and common-onset (30–50 years)were compared for first clinical symptoms, disease progression, CAG repeat size and family history. Participants with a missing CAG repeat size, a repeat size of ≤35 or a UHDRS motor score of ≤5 were excluded. Results: Of 6007 eligible participants, 687 had late-onset (11.4%) and 3216 (53.5%) common-onset HD. Late-onset (n = 577) had significantly more gait and balance problems as first symptom compared to common-onset (n = 2408) (P &lt;.001). Overall motor and cognitive performance (P &lt;.001) were worse, however only disease motor progression was slower (coefficient, −0.58; SE 0.16; P &lt;.001) compared to the common-onset group. Repeat size was significantly lower in the late-onset (n = 40.8; SD 1.6) compared to common-onset (n = 44.4; SD 2.8) (P &lt;.001). Fewer late-onset patients (n = 451) had a positive family history compared to common-onset (n = 2940) (P &lt;.001). Conclusions: Late-onset patients present more frequently with gait and balance problems as first symptom, and disease progression is not milder compared to common-onset HD patients apart from motor progression. The family history is likely to be negative, which might make diagnosing HD more difficult in this population. However, the balance and gait problems might be helpful in diagnosing HD in elderly patients