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Psychosocial Workers and Indigenous Religious Leaders: An Integrated Vision for Collaboration in Humanitarian Crisis Response

Religions, 2023
Indigenous religious leaders can be the most trusted organic helping agents within vulnerable communities, but often lack orientation to the language and paradigms of the mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) professionals responding to their ...
David William Alexander, Tatiana Letovaltseva   +1 more
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What lies beneath: exploring links between asylum policy and hate crime in the UK [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the link between increasing incidents of hate crime and the asylum policy of successive British governments with its central emphasis on deterrence.
A Dummett, A Harmit, Administrator, B Bowling, B Perry, British Crime Survey, C Coole, Children’s Commissioner, Crown Prosecution Service, D Coleman, D Frost, D Gadd, D Kahan, DP Green, E Bleich, E Goffman, F Anthias, G Cornelisse, G Mason, G Moon, H Hurd, H O’Nions, Helen O’Nions, Home Office, Human Rights First, Human Rights First, I Dale, ICAR (Information centre about asylum seekers and refugees), Independent Asylum Commission, J Banks, L Dixon, L Fekete, L Ray, M Wetherell, N Hall, O Fiss, O Parker, OG Bailey, OSCE, P Aspinall, P Iganksi, P Tuitt, R Capdevila, R Grillo, R Karapin, R Karapin, R Sibbitt, Refugee Action, Refugee Action, S Goodman, Scottish Executive, T Bjorgo, T Bjorgo, T Bjorgo, T Cantle, T Hayter, T Veenkamp, TA Dijk Van, TA Dijk Van, UNHCR   +59 more
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Reasons for admission in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in a paediatric tertiary care centre

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
BACKGROUND In the last decade an increasing number of asylum-seeking children arrived in Europe and local healthcare systems have been challenged to adapt to their health needs. The aim of this study was to compare the spectrum of disease and
Myriam Gmünder, Julia Brandenberger, Sina Buser, Christian Pohl, Nicole Ritz   +4 more
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Meeting basic needs? Forced migrants and welfare [PDF]

, 2005
As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on
Brown, D, Dwyer, PJ
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The Gory Details: Asylum, Sexual Assault, and Traumatic Memory

Sexes, 2023
For asylum seekers to be granted asylum, they must convince immigration officials that they have been persecuted or that they fear they will be persecuted if returned to their home country.
Connie Oxford
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Networking for Change: The Development of the European Network on Statelessness and Perspectives on Developing Other Regional and Global Statelessness Coalitions

Tilburg Law Review, 2014
Until recently, there was no regional civil society alliance dedicated exclusively to addressing statelessness. This changed with the advent of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), which has attracted fifty non-governmental organization (NGOs ...
Chris Nash
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Chasing Efficiency Can operational changes fix European asylum systems? Bertelsmann Stiftung Migration Policy Institute Europe March 2020 [PDF]

, 2020
The heightened arrivals of asylum seekers and migrants on European shores in 2015–16 sent policymakers across the continent scrambling for new strategies to manage migration.
Beirens, Hanne
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"They think we're OK and we know we're not". A qualitative study of asylum seekers' access, knowledge and views to health care in the UK [PDF]

, 2007
<i>Background</i>: The provision of healthcare for asylum seekers is a global issue. Providing appropriate and culturally sensitive services requires us to understand the barriers facing asylum seekers and the facilitators that help them ...
A Bischoff, A Burnett, A Burnett, A Vallely, B Starfield, B Starfield, BG Glaser, British Medical Association Board of Science and Education, Catherine A O'Donnell, D Silove, E Hsieh, E Scheppers, H Office, I Papadopoulos, J Aldous, J Lawrence, J Ritchie, JG Lipson, K Gerrish, Kenneth Mullen, L Michell, M Kibondo, Maria Higgins, MB Miles, N Junod Perron, N Roshan, P Hudelson, R Levenson, Rohan Chauhan, S Hargreaves, T Greenhalgh, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   +31 more
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“When you leave your country, this is what you’re in for”: experiences of structural, legal, and gender-based violence among asylum-seeking women at the Mexico-U.S. border

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Recent U.S. immigration policy has increasingly focused on asylum deterrence and has been used extensively to rapidly deport and deter asylum-seekers, leaving thousands of would-be asylum-seekers waiting indefinitely in Mexican border cities ...
Kaylee Ramage, Emma Stirling-Cameron, Nicole Elizabeth Ramos, Isela Martinez SanRoman, Ietza Bojorquez, Arianna Spata, Brigitte Baltazar Lujano, Shira M. Goldenberg   +7 more
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Threats and Interventions on Wellbeing in Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands: A Scoping Review

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundMost asylum seekers experience stress, not only due to the reason for fleeing and their travel but also due to their compulsory stay in the asylum seeker center in the Netherlands and the asylum procedure.
Ferdy Pluck, Ferdy Pluck, Ferdy Pluck, Roelof Ettema, Eric Vermetten, Eric Vermetten, Eric Vermetten   +6 more
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