User:Athomas1995

About me
Hi! I'm a junior at Rice University, majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Business and Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities (PJHC). My academic interests include refugee rights, racial and ethnic inequality, and urban planning. I first joined the Wikipedia community fall 2015 for my Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities course, during which I worked on the "Dadaab" article. The next semester, I worked on the "Child labour in Swaziland" article.

Current article
I'm currently creating an article for Leopard's Kopje, for a class I'm taking on African Prehistory.

Child labour in Swaziland
Child labor is a topic that is well covered on Wikipedia for many countries, but the page on Swaziland in particular is extremely brief, with only one source. I would add some sections and subsections to this existing article, using a page on child labor such as the one for India as a good example. A full proposal on the changes I want to make can be found here: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/1o0xNJekxUV5zbL1Obxt6jZTG5ROot4o7BaayCySCZjU/edit?usp=sharing

Dadaab
Dadaab is the largest refugee camp in the world, and yet until recently I hardly knew anything about it. I think refugee rights are vastly underreported in the media, and even with the recent coverage of Syrian refugees, there are still many misconceptions. I would like to improve the existing article on Dadaab by adding information about its history, specifics about the living conditions, and the opportunities or lack of opportunities that refugees there have to leave. For a full description of how I plan to edit the article, please see my proposal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hmp4tH4PFr6ORbn5SUWmkSBa7GlGPH7Nd2K7g0ufRAU/edit?usp=sharing