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Moral injury related to immigration detention on Nauru: a qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Understanding US Immigration Detention: Reaffirming Rights and Addressing Social-Structural Determinants of Health [PDF]

open access: yesHealth 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
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of immigration detention on mental health: a systematic review [PDF]

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Do codes of ethics and position statements help guide ethical decision making in Australian immigration detention centres? [PDF]

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Prolonged Immigration Detention That Violates Human Rights in Japan Immigration Detention Facilities: An Institutional Approach

open access: yesJurnal HAM, 2022
Recently, some cases of human rights violations in immigration detention centers across Japan have attracted worldwide attention. Those inhumanely considered cases necessitated the United Nations expressing an opinion through the United Nations Working ...
Sari Anggaini, Kurniawaty Iskandar
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigration Detention

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021
COVID-19 has spread quickly through immigration detention facilities in the United States. As of December 2, 2020, there have been over 7,500 confirmed COVID-19 cases among detained noncitizens.
Fatma E. Marouf
doaj   +1 more source

Immigration Detention, the Patriarchal State and the Politics of Disgust in the Hands of Street-level Bureaucrats [PDF]

open access: yesFeminist 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
doaj   +1 more source

Perceived structural vulnerabilities among detained noncitizen immigrants in Minnesota.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Across several decades there has been an unprecedented increase in immigration enforcement including detention and deportation. Immigration detention profoundly impacts those experiencing detention and their family members.
Kazumi Tsuchiya   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Release from US immigration detention may improve physical and psychological stress and health: Results from a two-wave panel study in California

open access: yesSSM - Mental Health, 2021
Imprisonment in the U.S. criminal legal system is associated with adverse health outcomes, but we know far less about the health consequences of immigration detention.
Caitlin Patler   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detention of Immigrant Children [PDF]

open access: yesPediatrics, 2017
This Policy Statement was reaffirmed November 2022. Immigrant children seeking safe haven in the United States, whether arriving unaccompanied or in family units, face a complicated evaluation and legal process from the point of arrival through permanent resettlement in communities.
Julie M. Linton   +12 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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