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"They think we're OK and we know we're not". A qualitative study of asylum seekers' access, knowledge and views to health care in the UK [PDF]

, 2007
<i>Background</i>: The provision of healthcare for asylum seekers is a global issue. Providing appropriate and culturally sensitive services requires us to understand the barriers facing asylum seekers and the facilitators that help them ...
Mullen, K., Chauhan, R., O'Donnell, C., Catherine A O'Donnell, Chauhan Rohan, Kenneth Mullen, Mullen Kenneth, Rohan Chauhan, Higgins, M., O'Donnell Catherine A, Higgins Maria, Maria Higgins   +11 more
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Exposure to asylum seekers and changing support for the radical right: A natural experiment in the Netherlands.

PLoS ONE, 2021
As a result of the 2015 refugee crisis, a substantial number of voters experienced a sudden and unexpected influx of asylum seekers in their neighbourhood in the Netherlands.
Jochem Tolsma, Joran Laméris, Michael Savelkoul   +2 more
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Complying with international and regional law during the pandemic - Asylum seekers and COVID-19 emergency measures in EU Member States Germany and Greece

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2022
This paper analyzes measures taken by EU Member States Greece and Germany during the first stages of the COVID-19 pandemic with regard to asylum seekers.
Danni Reches
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Opportunities and Limitations for Collective Resistance Arising from Volunteering by Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Northern England [PDF]

, 2016
This article asks whether volunteering by refugees and asylum seekers holds potential to foster collective resistance to the British state’s increasingly punitive asylum policies. It draws on research that included four organizational case studies and in-
Vickers, Tom
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An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland

Societies, 2019
Deaf asylum seekers are a marginalized group of people in refugee and forced migration studies. The aim of this paper is to explore and highlight the experiences of deaf asylum seekers in the asylum procedure in Finland.
Nina Sivunen
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Training refugee and asylum-seeking doctors: a cohort study of the UK REACHE programme

BMJ Open
Objective Refugee and asylum-seeking (RAS) doctors benefit from specialised support to achieve medical registration, though there is limited published evidence from programmes supporting them.
Aaron Drovandi, Aisha Awan, Samuel Barrett, Jouher Kallingal   +3 more
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Between trauma and conflict: Torture survivors in Israel during the war

Torture
Introduction: October 7, 2023, has intensified the vulnerability of torture survivors among asylum seekers in Israel, mainly from Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Ukraine, who remain without legal recognition or access to essential services.
Mika Foux
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From healing to leading: a case study of a community-led mental health program for forcibly displaced people

Frontiers in Public Health
There are over 120 million forcibly displaced people in the world, with numbers steadily increasing. The majority of refugees and asylum seekers are displaced in urban settings with fragmented access to health services, and those living in countries ...
Flora Cohen, Kevin Yau, Jane Kennedy, Hayley Saxby, Mozhgan Moarefizadeh   +4 more
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Living a frozen life: a qualitative study on asylum seekers’ experiences and care practices at accommodation centers in Sweden

Conflict and Health, 2022
Background Forced migrants fleeing conflict and violence face a high risk of mental health problems due to experiences before displacement, perilous journeys, and conditions in the new host societies.
Charlotta van Eggermont Arwidson, Jessica Holmgren, Kristina Gottberg, Petter Tinghög, Henrik Eriksson   +4 more
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Impact of initial health assessment and crisis counselling for newly arrived Asylum seekers

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Evaluate the impact of the initial health assessment service for asylum seekers provided by the Asylum Practice Service. Objectives Examine the inputs of Asylum practice service to asylum seekers.
P. Uwamaliya
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