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The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

Voices of asylum: An exploration of the role of radio in the asylum-seeker debate

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines the ways radio news and current affairs in Australia contribute to public discussion on asylum-seeker/refugee issues, and considers the range of alternative perspectives being presented by community radio.
Anderson, H
core   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asylum-seekers at the extremes

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Abstract This article conducts a first-hand study on forecasting asylum-seekers’ applications across seven major host countries, i.e. the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Greece by 2027. Poisson regression is used for flow forecasting and Extreme Value Theory for the maximum monthly number of applications.
Noori, Mohammad, Bee, Marco
openaire   +2 more sources

This is breaking people: human rights violations at Australia’s asylum seeker processing centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report argues that asylum seekers detained at Australia\u27s asylum seeker processing centre on Manus Island experience degrading conditions and serious human rights violations.Introduction and summaryFleeing war, chilling acts of torture, threats ...

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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

How local faith communities can aid asylum seekers

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2014
Local faith communities are able to offer assistance to asylum seekers in ways that faith-based organisations, constrained by eligibility criteria, are not.
Kelly Barneche, ‘Joe’
doaj  

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Somatisation: illness perspectives of asylum seeker and refugee patients from the former country of Yugoslavia

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

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