Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres
Social Sciences, 2021 The Australian government has spent over a billion dollars a year on managing offshore detention (Budget 2018–2019). Central to this offshore management was the transference and mandatory detention of asylum seekers in facilities that sit outside ...
Rachel Sharples
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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, Vickers, T
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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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"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. +11 more
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Training refugee and asylum-seeking doctors: a cohort study of the UK REACHE programme
BMJ OpenObjective 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 +3 more
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Asylum Seekers' Trajectories of Exclusion: An Analysis Through the Lens of Intersectionality [PDF]
The recent increase in asylum seekers in Portugal has drawn attention to the need for effective social integration. The experiences of asylum seekers reveal the existence of social exclusion before migration and the need for them to be included to ...
Branco, Ana Sofia +3 more
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Between trauma and conflict: Torture survivors in Israel during the war
TortureIntroduction: 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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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 +4 more
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Experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in general practice: a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2007 Background: There has been much debate regarding the refugee health situation in the UK. However most of the existing literature fails to take account of the opinions of refugees themselves.
Wallace, P +3 more
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