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What is Burma

Chapter 20
Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art
A nation on the Northern and Western border of Thailand, also referred to as Myanmar. Following its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948, Burma has experienced substantial civic unrest, resulting in waves of migration to bordering nations as well as global refugee resettlement efforts.
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Watching the Walls Crumble: Conversation and Community-Building through a Weekly Youth Art Workshop
Kira Hegeman (University of Georgia, USA)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1727-6.ch020
Abstract
This chapter offers an account of nine-months with the Young Lion's Global Artists, a youth arts program based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This chapter serves as a practitioner's account, illustrating the program's creation, selected activities and group dynamics. Through these accounts the chapter further seeks to offer this program as an example of the potential for community-based art programs to cultivate conversation and social engagement. Over the course of a nine-month period this particular program was instrumental in creating bonds across ethnic divides that had initially caused social separation and tension when the program began, further highlighting the potential for arts program to inspire conversation and transformation.
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Chapter 5
Muslim Refugee Clients: Understanding Issues of Migration, Trauma, and Education
Burma, also known as Myanmar, is a country in Southeast Asia in the Bay of Bengal bordered by Bangladesh and India on the west and by Laos and Thailand on the east. Minority ethnic groups in Burma have endured civil war and ethnic strife since 1948.
Published in Chapter: Muslim Refugee Clients: Understanding Issues of Migration, Trauma, and Education; From: Working With Muslim Clients in the Helping Professions
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