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Migration, Refugees, and Health Risks [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001
Migration both voluntary and forced is increasing all over the world. People are moving in larger numbers faster and further than at any other time in history. This is happening at a time when many countries are ill-prepared to deal with a changing demography and when policies and attitudes to population movement and immigration are hardening.
Manuel Carballo, Aditi Nerurkar
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Health status and care utilization among Afghan refugees recently resettled in Calgary, Canada between 2011–2020

BMC Health Services Research
Background The United States and Canada have resettled over 120,000 Afghan refugees since August 2021, but sociodemographic and health status data remains sparse with investigations often limited to refugee entrance exams, standardized health screenings,
Hannah Smati, Nour Hassan, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Fawzia Abdaly, Shayesta Noori, Rabina Grewal, Eric Norrie, Rachel Talavlikar, Julia Bietz, Sarah L. Kimball, Annalee Coakley, Avik Chatterjee, Gabriel E. Fabreau   +12 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" : experiences of unaccompanied refugee girls in Cape Town [PDF]

, 2008
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-99).The arrival of unaccompanied minors poses unique challenges to the host country, raising serious questions about the rights and psychosocial health of that child.
Warria, Ajwang' R
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Torture and healthcare service utilization in Syrian refugees resettled in Norway – a longitudinal, registry-based study

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: Torture, banned under international treaties such as the UN Convention Against Torture, remains a widespread violation with profound health consequences.
Alexander Nissen, Katharina Haag
doaj   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Refugee health.

Australian family physician, 2006
Refugees and asylum seekers in Australia come from many countries. They present a significant challenge for general practice.This article outlines the unique range of problems presented by refugee patients in general practice and some approaches to dealing with them.Refugees and asylum seekers come to Australia with a range of health problems related ...
Harris, Mark, Zwar, N
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