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Temporal variations in the distribution of self-harm episodes and methods across the Australian asylum seeker population: An observational study. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2020 BackgroundTemporal patterns in the frequency and characteristics of self-harm episodes across the Australian asylum seeker population may have implications for self-harm prevention and public health policy.
Kyli Hedrick +3 more
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Somatisation: illness perspectives of asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2006 Background Somatisation is particularly challenging in multicultural contexts where patients and physicians often differ in terms of their illness-related beliefs and practices and health care expectations. This paper reports on a exploratory study aimed
Hudelson Patricia, Junod Perron Noelle
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Self-harm in the Australian asylum seeker population: A national records-based study [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2019 Background: Systematic research into self-harm in the Australian asylum seeker population is scarce, largely due to the lack of accessible data. The aim of this study was to examine the incidence and characteristics of self-harm across the Australian ...
Kyli Hedrick +3 more
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Asylum seekers and refugees in Britain: Health needs of asylum seekers and refugees
BMJ, 2001 This is the second in a series of three articles People who are seeking asylum are not a homogeneous population. Coming from different countries and cultures, they have had, in their own and other countries, a wide range of experiences that may affect their health and nutritional state.
Angela Burnett
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe [PDF]
, 2004 The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world has increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin problems of providing adequate humanitarian ...
Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Unexpected agency on the threshold: Asylum seekers narrating from an asylum seeker centre. [PDF]
Curr Sociol, 2018 Several studies have described the condition of asylum seekers as being on the threshold or in-between structures. Victor Turner’s concept of liminality and Agamben’s state of exception have been used extensively to analyse this condition, mostly to show the negative implications of the ambiguous legal (non-) status.
Ghorashi H, de Boer M, Ten Holder F.
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How to be a ‘Good Asylum Seeker’? The Subjectification of Young Men Seeking Asylum
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2021 This research focuses on the subjectification of young asylum-seeking men. By subjectification, we mean the effort an individual invests in detecting, negotiating, meeting and contesting the surrounding discursive expectations. The underlying question is:
Maria Petäjäniemi +2 more
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The View of Parents About Asylum Seeker Children
Çocuk Dergisi, 2021 Aim: The aim of the study was to learn the views of parents within the community on asylum seeker children and to learn their solution proposals for their problems.
Damla Mutlu +8 more
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From Drifters to Asylum Seekers [PDF]
The Contemporary Pacific, 2020 In order to qualify the discussion of what the processing center has meant for people in Manus and how it can be interpreted in light of Manus people's relations to "outsiders," we unpack three key themes that in our view have been central to the encounter that Manus people have had with alterity both historically and—as is our contention—in the ...
Dalsgaard, Steffen, Otto, Ton
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BMJ, 2010 McCartney mentioned Aspinall and Watters’ report, which highlights poorer pregnancy outcomes among refugees.1 2 Let there be no doubt about what poorer means: asylum seekers and refugees are more likely than the general population to die during pregnancy or childbirth.3 Maternal health complications and neonatal deaths and …
Helen E. D. Burchett, Ros Bragg
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