Limbo life in Canada’s waiting room: Asylum-seeker as queer subject

Despite nearly 12 million Asian Americans living in the United States and continued immigration, this increasingly substantial subpopulation has consistently been left out of national obesity studies. When included in national studies, Chinese-American children have been grouped together with other Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders or simply as “other,” yielding significantly lower rates of overweight and obesity compared to non-Asians. There is a failure to recognize the ethnic diversity of Asian Americans as well as the effect of acculturation. Results from smaller studies of Chinese American youth suggest that they are adopting lifestyles less Chinese and more Americans and that their share of disease burden is growing. We screened 142 children from the waiting room of a community health center that serves primarily recent Chinese immigrants for height, weight and demographic profile. Body Mass Index was calculated and evaluated using CDC growth charts. Overall, 30.1 percent of children were above the 85th we found being male and being born in the U .S. to be statistically significant for BMI > 85th percentile (p=0.039, p=0.001, respectively). Our results suggest that being overweight in this Chinese American immigrant population is associated with being born in the U.S. A change in public policy and framework for research are required to accurately assess the extent of overweight and obesity in Chinese American children. In particular, large scale data should be stratified by age, sex, birthplace and measure of acculturation to identify those at risk and construct tailored interventions.

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Why Not Poems in the Waiting Room?

Clinical Nurse Specialist ◽

10.1097/nur.0000000000000200 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 180-181

Author(s):

Jeanine Young-Mason

Keyword(s):

Waiting Room

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The Waiting Room as an Extension of the Treatment: Transference and Countertransference across the Consulting and Waiting Rooms

Psychoanalytic Dialogues ◽

10.1080/10481885.2020.1863078 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 50-62

Author(s):

Christopher Bonovitz

Keyword(s):

Waiting Room ◽

Transference And Countertransference

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Audio-guided self-hypnosis for reduction of claustrophobia during MR imaging: results of an observational 2-group study

European Radiology ◽

10.1007/s00330-021-07887-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Adriane E. Napp ◽

Torsten Diekhoff ◽

Olf Stoiber ◽

Judith Enders ◽

Gerd Diederichs ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Risk ◽

Mr Imaging ◽

Odds Ratio ◽

Control Group ◽

Waiting Room ◽

High Risk Patients ◽

Imaging Results ◽

Before And After ◽

Risk Patients ◽

And Coping

Abstract Objectives To evaluate the influence of audio-guided self-hypnosis on claustrophobia in a high-risk cohort undergoing magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Methods In this prospective observational 2-group study, 55 patients (69% female, mean age 53.6 ± 13.9) used self-hypnosis directly before imaging. Claustrophobia included premature termination, sedation, and coping actions. The claustrophobia questionnaire (CLQ) was completed before self-hypnosis and after MR imaging. Results were compared to a control cohort of 89 patients examined on the same open MR scanner using logistic regression for multivariate analysis. Furthermore, patients were asked about their preferences for future imaging. Results There was significantly fewer claustrophobia in the self-hypnosis group (16%; 9/55), compared with the control group (43%; 38/89; odds ratio .14; p = .001). Self-hypnosis patients also needed less sedation (2% vs 16%; 1/55 vs 14/89; odds ratio .1; p = .008) and non-sedation coping actions (13% vs 28%; 7/55 vs 25/89; odds ratio .3; p = .02). Self-hypnosis did not influence the CLQ results measured before and after MR imaging (p = .79). Self-hypnosis reduced the frequency of claustrophobia in the subgroup of patients above an established CLQ cut-off of .33 from 47% (37/78) to 18% (9/49; p = .002). In the subgroup below the CLQ cut-off of 0.33, there were no significant differences (0% vs 9%, 0/6 vs 1/11; p = 1.0). Most patients (67%; 35/52) preferred self-hypnosis for future MR examinations. Conclusions Self-hypnosis reduced claustrophobia in high-risk patients undergoing imaging in an open MR scanner and might reduce the need for sedation and non-sedation coping actions. Key Points • Forty percent of the patients at high risk for claustrophobia may also experience a claustrophobic event in an open MR scanner. • Self-hypnosis while listening to an audio in the waiting room before the examination may reduce claustrophobic events in over 50% of patients with high risk for claustrophobia. • Self-hypnosis may also reduce the need for sedation and other time-consuming non-sedation coping actions and is preferred by high-risk patients for future examinations.

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“Do you understand (me)?” negotiating mutual understanding by using gaze and environmentally coupled gestures between two deaf signing participants

Applied Linguistics Review ◽

10.1515/applirev-2019-0065 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Nina Sivunen ◽

Elina Tapio

Keyword(s):

Asylum Seeker ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

The State ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

Multimodal Analysis ◽

Semiotic Resources ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Language Competencies ◽

Unrealistic Expectations ◽

Insight Into

AbstractIn this paper we explore the use of multimodal and multilingual semiotic resources in interactions between two deaf signing participants, a researcher and an asylum seeker. The focus is on the use of gaze and environmentally coupled gestures. Drawing on multimodal analysis and linguistic ethnography, we demonstrate how gaze and environmentally coupled gestures are effective semiotic resources for reaching mutual understanding. The study provides insight into the challenges and opportunities (deaf) asylum seekers, researchers, and employees of reception centres or the state may encounter because of the asymmetrical language competencies. Our concern is that such asymmetrical situations may be created and maintained by ignoring visual and embodied resources in interaction and, in the case of deaf asylum seekers, by unrealistic expectations towards conventionalized forms of international sign.

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Linguistic, psychological and epistemic vulnerability in asylum procedures: An interdisciplinary approach

Discourse Studies ◽

10.1177/1461445620942909 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 46-66

Author(s):

Simo K Määttä ◽

Eeva Puumala ◽

Riitta Ylikomi

Keyword(s):

Asylum Seeker ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Psychological Vulnerability ◽

Immigration Service ◽

Asylum Procedure ◽

Central Forces

This article analyzes three video-recorded asylum interviews, their written records and the corresponding decisions by the Finnish Immigration Service. The goal is to identify the causes and consequences of vulnerability in instances that are particularly important when assessing whether the asylum seeker has a well-grounded fear of persecution. A combination of linguistic, psychological and epistemic perspectives on vulnerability shows that these three dimensions are closely intertwined in asylum interviews. Linguistic vulnerability is linked for the most part to interpreting, whereas psychological vulnerability stems from the difficulty in recounting traumatic experiences. Both linguistic and psychological vulnerabilities are central forces that also lead to epistemic vulnerability. Epistemic vulnerability, we claim, gives rise to certain practices within the asylum procedure, which again represents the materialization of the discourses of reporting, truth and credibility.

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Borders and resilience: Asylum seeker reception at the securitized Finnish-Swedish border

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space ◽

10.1177/23996544211000062 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 239965442110000

Author(s):

Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola

Keyword(s):

Asylum Seeker ◽

Forced Migration ◽

Border Crossing ◽

Border Crossings ◽

Cross Border ◽

Everyday Practices ◽

The Everyday ◽

Border Controls ◽

And Control ◽

Cross Border Cooperation

The past decade has witnessed a shift from “open borders” policies and cross-border cooperation towards heightened border securitization and the building of border walls. In the EU context, since the migration influx of 2015–2016, many Member States have retained the re-instituted Schengen border controls intended to be temporary. Such heightened border securitization has produced high levels of anxiety among various populations and increased societal polarization. This paper focuses on the processes underpinning asylum seeker reception at the re-bordered Finnish-Swedish border and in the Finnish border town of Tornio. The asylum process is studied from the perspective of local authorities and NGO actors active in the everyday reception, care and control practices in the border securitization environment enacted in Tornio in 2015. The analysis highlights how the ‘success’ of everyday reception work at the Tornio border crossing was bound to the historical openness of the border and pre-existing relations of trust and cooperation between different actors at various scales. The paper thus provides a new understanding of the significance of borders and border crossings from the perspective of resilience and highlights some of the paradoxes of border securitization. It notes that although border closures are commonly envisioned as a direct response to forced migration, the everyday practices and capacities of the asylum reception at the Finnish-Swedish border are themselves highly dependent on pre-existing border crossings and cross-border cooperation.

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