The Relationship Between Post-Migration Stress and Psychological Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan S. Y. Li ◽  
Belinda J. Liddell ◽  
Angela Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Migration Stress ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The Asylum Hump: Why Country Income Level Predicts New Asylum Seekers, But Not New Refugees

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantin Ruhe ◽  
Charles Martin-Shields ◽  
Lisa Maria Groß
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Statistical Finding ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Refugee response has become an important topic in economic-development policy, but the majority of macro-level analyses do not find an association between country income level and refugee numbers. We argue that the apparent lack of association stems from using the United Nations High Commission for Refugees’ count of refugees as the dependent variable in these analyses. Refugee counts reflect processes that take place in countries of arrival. In contrast, the decision to seek asylum may be more closely linked to conditions, including income, in countries of origin. Drawing on the ‘migration-hump’ concept from economic migration, we model counts of refugees and asylum seekers from conflict-affected countries for the same time period and find that differences in the level of gross domestic product (GDP) predict new asylum applications but not new refugee numbers. We outline reasons for this statistical finding, and discuss theoretical and practical consequences for our understanding of the relationship between country income and asylum-seeking.

scholarly journals Biopolitics, borders, and refugee camps: exercising sovereign power over nonmembers of the state†

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Zeveleva
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
Treat All ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between the concepts of national identity and biopolitics by examining a border-transit camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers in Germany. Current studies of detention spaces for migrants have drawn heavily on Agamben's reflection on the “camp” and “homo sacer,” where the camp is analyzed as a space in a permanent state of exception, in which the government exercises sovereign power over the refugee as the ultimate biopolitical subject. But what groups of people can end up at a camp, and does the government treat all groups in the same way? This article examines the German camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers as a space where the state's borders are demarcated and controlled through practices of bureaucratic and narrative differentiation among various groups of people. The author uses the concept of detention space to draw a theoretical link between national identity and biopolitics, and demonstrates how the sovereign's practices of control and differentiation at the camp construct German national identity through defining “nonmembers” of the state. The study draws on ethnographic fieldwork at the Friedland border transit camp and on a discourse analysis of texts produced at the camp or for the camp.

scholarly journals Temporary Text(iles)

2020 ◽  
pp. 313-322
Author(s):  
Thao Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Forced Migrations ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

Text and textiles share etymological roots and also have cultural and historical similarities. Temporary Text(iles) is project led research which investigates the relationship between text and textiles in hopes of harnessing its communicative powers. Techniques such as subtraction cutting, embroidery and writing are utilised to produce textile installations that are both performative and ephemeral. These spatial interventions are activated within contemporary art contexts and public spaces such as Altona beach, Campbell Arcade, Testing Grounds and Assembly Point. These experimental sites offer a gentle disruption to people’s everyday routine as well as a space for critical reflection and conversation. In this chaotic time of global grief and tension, the author commits herself to understand the connections between environmental sustainability, forced migrations and the mistreatment against marginalized communities such as refugees and asylum seekers. Temporary Text(iles) describes the different spatial interventions in the research project and analyses its effect in relation to these major social issues.

Introduction: Queer migration, asylum, and displacement

Sexualities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 911-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A Lewis ◽  
Nancy A Naples
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human ◽  
Critical Conversation ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue of Sexualities emerges in response to the growing visibility of LGBTQI immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers within global gay rights advocacy. Despite the increasing prominence of LGBTQI issues on the international human rights agenda, there has been relatively little discussion of the relationship between queer migration and LGBTQI human rights activism in the field of sexuality studies. This special issue seeks to bring queer migration and sexual citizenship studies into critical conversation with current literature in the area of gender, sexuality and human rights.

scholarly journals Social Citizenship, Social Policy and Refugee Integration: a Case of Policy Divergence in Scotland?

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARETH MULVEY
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Refugee Integration ◽  
Scottish Government ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

AbstractThe relationship between Holyrood and Westminster is an evolving one where there is some evidence of policy divergence. Underpinning policy approaches are different views of social citizenship, with the Holyrood approach maintaining elements of the post-1945 welfare settlement. The place of refugees and asylum seekers within these differing approaches is currently underexplored. This article looks at the Scottish and UK Governments’ views of social rights and how they apply to asylum seekers and refugees. It suggests that despite refugee ‘policy’ being at least partly reserved, the Scottish Government has been able to take a different approach from that of Westminster, an approach underpinned by these differing welfare outlooks.

The management of post-traumatic stress disorder and associated pain and sleep disturbance in refugees

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-206
Author(s):  
July Lies ◽  
Lester Jones ◽  
Roger Ho
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

SUMMARYMore than 68 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced and one-third of these are refugees. This article offers an overview of the current literature and reviews the epidemiology and evidence-based psychological and pharmacological management of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep disturbance and pain in refugees and asylum seekers. It also considers the relationship between sleep disturbance and PTSD and explores concepts of pain in relation to physical and psychological trauma and distress. During diagnosis, clinicians must be aware of ethnic variation in the somatic expression of distress. Treatments for PTSD, pain and sleep disturbance among refugees and asylum seekers are essentially the same as those used in the general population, but treatment strategies must allow for cultural and contextual factors, including language barriers, loss of freedom and threat of repatriation.LEARNING OBJECTIVESAfter reading this article you will be able to: •recognise the challenges faced by the large number of refugees worldwide•understand the relationship between PTSD, sleep disturbance and pain in refugees•broadly understand the evidence for psychological and pharmacological therapy for treating PTSD, sleep disturbance and pain in refugees.DECLARATION OF INTERESTNone.

scholarly journals Italian Reception Policies and Pandemic: From Exclusion to Abandonment

Two Homelands ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Filippi ◽  
Luca Giliberti
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the management of reception centers for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. By analyzing the transformation of Italian reception policies in the last years, the article shows the relationship between these changes and the condition of refugees and asylum seekers in these centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overcrowded housing, the absence of institutional guidance on managing the situation, and the interruption of many migrants’ migratory projects are the main findings that emerged. The article is based on digital ethnographic techniques, in addition to phone interviews with key speakers of the social contexts monitored online.

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