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Friend or Foe: An Analysis of the Contribution National Identity Hegemony Plays in the Acceptance of Asylum Seekers in Australia, Spain and Catalonia

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2019
With the vast number of people currently seeking asylum, this research sought to understand what determines the reception of asylum seekers and rationalises the treatment of asylum seekers by a nation.
Amanda Collins
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Proposal for Malaysia’s Asylum Act

Asian Journal of Law and Policy, 2021
Asylum is granted to people in search for international protection from persecution or serious harm in their own country. The right to asylum for refugees in Malaysia is far from realization and in dire need of a practical solution.
Hench Goh, James Leong, Adam Haris Othman, Yee Ching Kho, Chung Yin Wong   +4 more
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Opportunities and Limitations for Collective Resistance Arising from Volunteering by Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Northern England

, 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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Efficacy and acceptability of psychosocial interventions in asylum seekers and refugees: systematic review and meta-analysis

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2019
Aims In the past few years, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of forcibly displaced migrants worldwide, of which a substantial proportion is refugees and asylum seekers.
G. Turrini, M. Purgato, C. Acarturk, M. Anttila, T. Au, F. Ballette, M. Bird, K. Carswell, R. Churchill, P. Cuijpers, J. Hall, L. J. Hansen, M. Kösters, T. Lantta, M. Nosè, G. Ostuzzi, M. Sijbrandij, F. Tedeschi, M. Välimäki, J. Wancata, Ross G. White, M. Ommeren, C. Barbui   +22 more
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Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas, Thanharat Silamongkol, H. Kenny Nienhusser, Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez, Cristalís Capielo Rosario, Lucas Torres, Oswaldo Moreno   +6 more
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Asylum-seekers at the extremes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
Abstract This article conducts a first-hand study on forecasting asylum-seekers’ applications across seven major host countries, i.e. the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Greece by 2027. Poisson regression is used for flow forecasting and Extreme Value Theory for the maximum monthly number of applications.
Noori, Mohammad, Bee, Marco
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The mental health status of asylum seekers in middle- to high-income countries: a synthesis of current global evidence.

British Medical Bulletin, 2020
INTRODUCTION The last 5 years have witnessed a significant increase in the number of people fleeing their countries of origin and seeking refuge in host countries.
Miriam Posselt, Heather McIntyre, Mtho Ngcanga, T. Lines, N. Procter   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Food security among asylum seekers in Melbourne

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objectives: This research explores food insecurity among asylum seekers who are members of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) in Melbourne, Australia. Methods: Structured person‐assisted questionnaires were conducted with 56 asylum seekers.
Fiona H. McKay, Matthew Dunn
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