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Refuge, 2004 In Australia, asylum seekers either are detained in immigration detention centres or, depending upon their mode of entry into Australia and the status of their application for protection, live in the community, often in a state of abject poverty.
Grant Mitchell, Sara Kirsner
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Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.This study examines the Mawphlang Sacred Forest in Meghalaya as a culturally embedded model of community‐led conservation. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it highlights how spiritual reverence, sacred taboos, and ancestral authority shape ecological stewardship, complementing formal governance systems.
Mrinal Saikia
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Immigration, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter discusses three of the most common areas of challenge for an asylum seeker. The first part of the chapter explains the basis of a refugee claim and the refugee determination process in the UK. The second part highlights a number of issues relating to trauma and memory and their impact on disclosure in the asylum context.
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Facets of decision‐making and risk‐taking are implicated in adolescent health risk behaviors; however, whether they may lead to adolescent engagement in substance use, gambling, and self‐harm is unknown. Methods We used the Millennium Cohort Study to test whether a task‐based measure of decision‐making and risk‐taking predicts ...
Nicole G. Hammond +4 more
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Unaccompanied migrant youths are at elevated risk for exposure to trauma and related mental health challenges, but there is minimal evidence guiding best practices. We conducted a systematic review of quantitative studies that examined mental health evaluation and treatment services for unaccompanied migrant youths resettled in the ...
Natan J. Vega Potler +3 more
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.Abstract Forcible displacement due to war and persecution has reached unprecedented heights across the globe. The mental health impact of trauma and displacement on refugee communities is profound. Although there are several evidence‐based therapies that are efficacious in reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in refugees ...
Angela Nickerson +4 more
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Constructing Asylum Seeking Families
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2007 In this paper I show how families of asylum seekers are constructed by members of the public. A discourse analysis is conducted on a UK internet message board where members of the public were asked to comment on councils’ decisions not to implement ...
Simon Goodman
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Impact of the increased asylum seeker population on a UK mental health crisis service
BJPsych InternationalBackground A large proportion of applicants for asylum in the UK are housed in contingency hotels while awaiting the outcome of their claim. As the prevalence of severe mental illness (SMI) among asylum seekers is estimated to be around 61%, a ...
Helen Lashwood +3 more
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter +2 more
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Participation Paradox: Asylum Seekers’ Everyday Participation in Finland
Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchAsylum seekers are separated from the receiving society by the legislation, marginalising societal discourses and institutional practices of the reception system.
Martta Myllylä +2 more
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