Moral injury related to immigration detention on Nauru: a qualitative study [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022 Background Immigration detention is associated with detrimental mental health outcomes but little is known about the underlying psychological processes. Moral injury, the experience of transgression of moral beliefs, may play an important role. Objective
Sandra Passardi +4 more
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Immigration Detention, the Patriarchal State and the Politics of Disgust in the Hands of Street-level Bureaucrats [PDF]
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2022 This article presents the results of ethnographic research conducted in the southern border of Mexico from 2017 to 2019, specifically at the Estación Migratoria Siglo XXI [XXI Century Immigration Station], which is one of the biggest and most important ...
Alethia Fernández de la Reguera
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Australian immigration detention health study protocol: a prospective, mixed-methods cohort study examining the physical and mental health of refugees and asylum seekers [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Globally, studies have consistently demonstrated the harmful mental and physical health impacts of immigration detention, with high levels of distress documented among detained asylum seekers and refugees (ASR).
Susan Rees +4 more
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Understanding US Immigration Detention: Reaffirming Rights and Addressing Social-Structural Determinants of Health [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2020 A crisis of mass immigration detention exists in the United States, which is home to the world’s largest immigration detention system. The immigration detention system is legally classified as civil, rather than criminal, and therefore non-punitive.
Altaf Saadi +4 more
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The impact of immigration detention on mental health: a systematic review [PDF]
BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background The number of asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced people worldwide has increased dramatically over the past 5 years. Many countries are continuing to resort to detaining asylum seekers and other migrants, despite concerns that ...
M. von Werthern +6 more
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Do codes of ethics and position statements help guide ethical decision making in Australian immigration detention centres? [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2019 Australian immigration detention has been called state sanctioned abuse and a crime against humanity. The Australian healthcare community has been closely involved with these policies, calling for their reform and working within detention centres to ...
Ryan Essex
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Reproductive Justice in the U.S. Immigration Detention System. [PDF]
Obstet Gynecol, 2023 Obstetrician–gynecologists are responsible for understanding the intersections of reproductive injustice in the U.S. immigration detention system and delivering high-quality reproductive care regardless of immigration status.
Pepe CS, Saadi A, Molina RL.
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When politics are contagious: Covid-19 and political resistance inside an immigration detention center. [PDF]
Polit Geogr, 2023 During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, immigration detainees in the United States rose up to protests their forced confinement during a global pandemic, launching collective hunger strikes across separate facilities on a national scale.
Asoni E.
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Harmful by Design-a Qualitative Study of the Health Impacts of Immigration Detention. [PDF]
J Gen Intern Med, 2023 The USA has the largest immigration detention system in the world with over 20,000 individuals imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) daily.
Diaz C +6 more
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The impact of immigration detention on children's mental health: systematic review. [PDF]
Br J PsychiatryBACKGROUND There are 117.3 million people forcibly displaced because of war, conflict and natural disasters: 40% are children. With growing numbers, many high-income countries have adopted or are considering increasingly restrictive policies of ...
Priestley I +6 more
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