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Norwegian citizens’ responses to influxes of asylum seekers: comparing across two refugee crises

Social Influence, 2023
We compared Norwegians’ attitudes to immigration, perspective taking, and intergroup behaviors directed at asylum seekers in 2016 (Syrians and Afghans) and 2022 (Ukrainians).
Lise Bjånesøy, Hege H. Bye
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Mental health care utilisation and access among refugees and asylum seekers in Europe: A systematic review.

Health Policy, 2019
BACKGROUND Refugees and asylum seekers often have increased mental health needs, yet may face barriers in accessing mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services in destination countries. The aim of this systematic review is to examine evidence
E. Satinsky, D. Fuhr, A. Woodward, E. Sondorp, B. Roberts   +4 more
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Unspoken inequality: how COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15–64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and practical xenophobia has driven asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in SA to abject poverty and misery.
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, A. N. Ambe, B. Adebiyi   +2 more
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When public opinion drives national asylum policymaking: The case of Kurdish asylum seekers in Japan

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2020
How does public opinion influence national asylum policymaking? This article analyses the change in Japan's asylum policy towards Kurdish asylum seekers from Turkey in the mid‐2000s.
Hirotaka Fujibayashi
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ASYLUM SEEKERS IN A NON-IMMIGRANT STATE AND THE ABSENCE OF REGIONAL ASYLUM SEEKERS MECHANISM: A CASE STUDY OF ROHINGYA ASYLUM SEEKERS IN ACEH-INDONESIA AND ASEAN RESPONSE

Indonesia Law Review, 2017
The problem of asylum seekers has become a global humanitarian issues. Demands regarding the handling mechanisms based on the values of human rights is getting stronger voiced by the international community.
Bilal Dewansyah, Wicaksana Dramanda, Imam Mulyana   +2 more
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Unlocking asylum seekers’ voices: protocol of a mixed-method clinical study on the use of the cultural formulation interview with asylum seekers in Belgium

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
BackgroundDespite a high prevalence of mental disorders among asylum seekers, many barriers to mental healthcare exist. Cultural and contextual factors strongly influence the experience and expression of psychological distress, putting asylum seekers at ...
Lukas Claus, Lukas Claus, Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Mario H. Braakman, Mario H. Braakman, Bernard Sabbe, Godfried Van Beuren, Seline van den Ameele, Seline van den Ameele   +8 more
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Multilevel governance in trouble: the implementation of asylum seekers’ reception in Italy as a battleground

, 2020
The reception of asylum seekers in Italy has become an increasingly contentious issue: many actors, public and private, are involved at various levels of government, and cooperative behaviour cannot be taken for granted.
Francesca Campomori, Maurizio Ambrosini
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Structural and socio-cultural barriers to accessing mental healthcare among Syrian refugees and asylum seekers in Switzerland

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020
Background: Due to their experiences of major stressful life events, including post-displacement stressors, refugees and asylum seekers are vulnerable to developing mental health problems.
N. Kiselev, M. Pfaltz, Florence Haas, Matthis Schick, Marie Kappen, M. Sijbrandij, A. D. de Graaff, M. Bird, Pernille Hansen, P. Ventevogel, D. Fuhr, U. Schnyder, N. Morina   +12 more
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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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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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