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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 Relationship between the Public and the Asylum Seeker: a Meta-Ethical Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Talk, ‘The Relationship between the Public and the Asylum Seeker: a Meta- Ethical Perspective.’ at the Kingston Law School Research ...
Kathrani, P.
core  

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

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

Diagnosing the system: Mental health, necropolitical uncare, and the abolition of migration detention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
wiley   +1 more source

L’antimonde de la demande d’asile

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2006
The asylum right symbolizes the respect of human rights, it protects persecuted individuals. This article questions the asylum seek as a procedural shell which, would be snatched by the antiworld, indispensable double of the world.
Emmanuelle Bonerandi, Xavier Richard
doaj   +1 more source

Australia's asylum seeker policy and Christmas Island [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Many political and media discussions make reference to Christmas Island, an Australian outpost located in the Indian Ocean, where asylum seekers are detained.
Michelle Jasmin Dimasi (19116019)
core   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee Without Refuge: Wasim, Phillip Adams, and a Nation Divided

open access: yesJournal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2010
This study follows on from previous work (Pedersen et al., 2008) that examined the situation of the stateless asylum seeker, Wasim. In the present study, a blog discussion stemming from an editorial about Wasim (Adams, 2008) was analysed.
Anne Pedersen, Farida Fozdar
doaj   +1 more source

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

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