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Common mental disorders in asylum seekers and refugees: umbrella review of prevalence and intervention studies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2017
BackgroundIn recent years there has been a progressive rise in the number of asylum seekers and refugees displaced from their country of origin, with significant social, economic, humanitarian and public health implications.
G. Turrini   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The U.S. refugee admissions program in Austin : the story of one Congolese family [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
textIn 2013, the U.S. Department of State allocated nearly $45 million to the Texas Office of Refugee Resettlement to help aid with the resettlement of 6,922 refugees. Approximately 10 percent of all refugees who were brought to the U.S.
Krebs, Natalie Renee
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The Right to Cultural Connection for Children in Out‐of‐Home Care: Does Australian Policy and Practice Adequately Support Cultural Identity for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnic networks can foster the economic integration of refugees

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance The integration of refugees into the host economy has become a major policy challenge for refugee-receiving countries in recent years. One prominent concern among policymakers is that refugee settlement in locations with high concentrations ...
L. Martén   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relationships and Identity: An Ethnographic Study With Young People in South‐East Queensland Who Had Left Out‐Of‐Home Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Young people who transition to adulthood while transitioning from out‐of‐home care, like their peers not in care may face several challenges in early adulthood. These include, high housing costs, fixed (often low) incomes, limited access to jobs and further education, developing and consolidating personal relationships and pressures from ...
Madonna Boman
wiley   +1 more source

The Reality of the Refugee Crisis in Italy: A Look into the Lives of Illegitimate Refugees and the Unofficial Organizations That Support Them [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The words written on the United States of America’s famous Statue of Liberty, written by poet Emma Lazarus over a century ago: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore ...
McQuirk, Cole
core   +2 more sources

Support for UNRWA's survival [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) provides life-saving humanitarian aid for 5·4 million Palestine refugees now entering their eighth decade of statelessness and conflict. About a third of Palestine
Abdulrahim, Sawsan   +162 more
core   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian 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

Brief to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Concerning Bill C-84

open access: yesRefuge, 1987
Brief to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs concerning Bill C-84.
. The Inter-Church Committee for Refugees
doaj   +1 more source

A Scoping Review of Access and Engagement With Mental Health Services by Young People From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) young people encounter unique circumstances, which can lead to high levels of distress. However, an up‐to‐date comprehensive literature review synthesising knowledge concerning mental health issues faced by CALD young people is lacking.
Abner Weng Cheong Poon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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