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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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"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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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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What lies beneath: exploring links between asylum policy and hate crime in the UK [PDF]

, 2010
This paper explores the link between increasing incidents of hate crime and the asylum policy of successive British governments with its central emphasis on deterrence.
O'Nions, H, Helen O’Nions
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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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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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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