Women in Refugee Law, Policy and Practice: An Introduction to The Refugee Survey Quarterly Special Issue

Responding to Migrant and Refugee Healthcare Needs in Ireland

Human migration, both voluntary and precipitated by conflict and persecution, continues to pose challenges to the healthcare infrastructure of host countries. The scale of international migration to Ireland has increased substantially in recent years. Both economic migrants and refugees have complex health needs including those related to infectious diseases, malnourishment, gender-specific iss...

Family psychology and family law: introduction to the special issue.

As part of a multilevel systemic approach, the authors appearing in this journal suggest implications for social policy and legislation extrapolated from the individual, family, legal, and larger sociocultural systems discussed. The field of family psychology can play a significant leadership role in advocating policies and legislation relevant to the emerging family types and legal dilemmas ba...

Introduction to this special issue: Disability, law and public policy, and the world wide web.

This special issue, entitled “Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web,” is meant to highlight how information and communications technology (ICT) in general, and the Internet’s World Wide Web (hereafter “web”) in particular, has fundamentally changed the way in which we all, with and without disabilities, participate politically, socially, and culturally within a global networ...

Barriers to work for refugee women

Introduction This morning I will be speaking on the topic of Barriers to Work for refugee Women. As the Specialist Migrant Place for the Service for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors I am responsible for assisting ma women to find employment. This is not an easy task and is often fraught with frustration because, statistically, wom refugee backgrounds have the highest...

An Introduction to the Special Issue