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The Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: Does Australian Policy and Practice Adequately Support Cultural Identity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Displacement and Transition Risks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The refugee journey from a place of danger to a place of safety involves a series of transitions. At each stage of the displacement cycle individuals become defined by legal-bureaucratic and descriptive labels that may include an ‘internally displaced ...
McDowell, C. A.
core  

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 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

​​Deserving Asylum​ and Becoming ‘Good’ Refugees in Madrid

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2023
Subject to constant and pervasive suspicion, asylum seekers in the global north often must expend great energy to assert their moral agency and be perceived as ‘good’ refugees who are not only worthy of being granted asylum but also capable of becoming ...
Jacqueline Marie Wagner
doaj   +1 more source

Medical Evaluations of Asylum Seekers [PDF]

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2004
Health workers can provide important medical documentation for individuals who are seeking political asylum in the United States. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
openaire   +2 more sources

Characterization of Neuropsychiatric Conditions in United States Resettled Refugees at a Single Academic Center

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Neuropsychiatric diseases are common among forcibly displaced persons, and a better understanding is needed to improve screening and treatment efforts. We performed a retrospective cross‐sectional study at a single academic center looking at neuropsychiatric diagnoses of United States resettled refugees presenting for their domestic medical examination.
Noor F. Shaik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extraterritorial Application and Customary Norm Assessment of Non-Refoulement: The Legality of Australia\u27s \u27Turn-Back\u27 Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article considers whether the Commonwealth Government’s border protection policy of turning back asylum seeker boats breaches its international obligation not to refoule refugees, as imposed under the Refugee Convention art 33(1). In addressing this
Mansfield, James
core   +1 more source

Perinatal health outcomes and care among asylum seekers and refugees: a systematic review of systematic reviews

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2018
Background Global migration is at an all-time high with implications for perinatal health. Migrant women, especially asylum seekers and refugees, represent a particularly vulnerable group.
Nicola Heslehurst   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Accuracy of Job Seekers' Wage Expectations [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
We study the accuracy of job seekers' wage expectations by comparing subjective beliefs to objective benchmarks using linked administrative and survey data. Our findings show that especially job seekers with low objective earnings potential and those predicted to face a penalty compared to their pre-unemployment wage display overly optimistic wage ...
arxiv  

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