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Health care for immigrant women in Italy: are we really ready? A survey on knowledge about female genital mutilation

open access: yesAnnali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2014
BACKGROUND: Because of immigration, female genital mutilation (FGM) is an issue of increasing concern in western countries. Nevertheless operators without a specific training may ignore the health condition of women subjected to this practice and fail to
Emanuele Caroppo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental health professionals’ perspective on a brief transdiagnostic psychological intervention for Afghan asylum seekers and refugees [PDF]

open access: gold, 2022
Matthias Knefel   +7 more
openalex   +1 more source

Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group affects social fear of crime mediated by prejudice.
Patrick F. Kotzur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Just and Sustainable Solution to the Boat People Predicament in Australia? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Since the year 2000, there have been close to two thousand deaths of asylum seekers at sea as a result of foiled attempts to travel to Australia in order to seek protection under the United Nations Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees.[1 ...
Donegan, Laura Rose W
core   +1 more source

Ethics and exclusion: representations of sovereignty in Australia’s approach to asylum-seekers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
From 2001, the Australian government has justified a hard-line approach to asylum-seekers on the basis of the need to preserve its sovereignty. This article critically evaluates this justification, arguing that the conception of sovereignty as the ‘right
Gelber, Katherine, McDonald, Matt
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Non‐State Regulators? Civil Society as Extension of the State in a Context of a Regularization Scheme for Undocumented Migrants

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Opération Papyrus” was implemented in the Swiss Canton of Geneva between 2017 and 2018 with the aim of granting residence permits to undocumented migrants who met pre‐established criteria. This program serves as an exemplary case of involving nongovernmental actors to facilitate what were originally state‐controlled procedures.
Jan‐Erik Refle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The mental health needs of child and adolescent refugees and asylum seekers entering Europe

open access: yesSocial Health and Behavior, 2019
Children and adolescents constitute more than half of the global refugee population, and almost one-third of first-time asylum seekers in the European Union (EU) during 2015 were under 18 years of age.
Supakyada Sapthiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asylum seekers and refugees: a quick guide to key parliamentary library publications [PDF]

open access: yes
Provides an overview of the content and links to several of the recent publications on issues affecting asylum seekers and refugees, both internationally and in Australia. Summary Asylum seeker and refugee policy has attracted a great deal of attention
Janet Phillips
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