BACKGROUND Adult refugees and asylum seekers living in Western countries experience a high prevalence of mental health problems, especially post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. This study compares and contrasts the prevalence of health problems, and potential risk factors as well as the utilisation of health services by asylum seekers and refugees in the Irish context....

Global events like wars and natural disasters have led to the refugee population reaching numbers not seen since the Second World War. Attitudes to asylum have hardened, with the potential to compromise the mental health needs of asylum seekers and refugees. The challenges in providing mental healthcare for asylum seekers and refugees include working with the uncertainties of immigration status...

BACKGROUND Medical care for asylum seekers is a complex and critical issue worldwide. It is influenced by social, political, and economic pressures, as well as premigration conditions, the process of migration, and postmigration conditions in the host country. Increasing needs and healthcare costs have led public health authorities to put nurse practitioners in charge of the management of a gat...

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 1 pp. 7–18 Address for correspondence: Dr Anne Pedersen, School of Psychology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia. E-mail: A.Pedersen@murdoch. edu.au or Dr Farida Fozdar, Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Murdoch WA 6150, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] The present study develops previous research that...

The “European migrant crisis” is one of the greatest social, political, and cultural challenges since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of people exposed to multiple psychological traumas are trying to find shelter in Europe. It would be indispensable to gain more information about the mental health of these individuals. The aim of the present study was to explore the occurrence of Posttrauma...

Introduction Most European countries are facing a continuous increased influx of asylum seekers [1]. Poor living conditions in crowded shelters and refugee camps increase the risk for outbreaks of infectious diseases in this vulnerable population. In line with ECDC recommendations [2], we aim to improve information on infectious diseases among asylum seekers by establishing a new syndromic surv...

Recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis – not only in Japan, as Leppold et al report, but also throughout Europe. Calls for societal homogeneity in Europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. Often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

BACKGROUND Trauma-focused CBT (TFCBT) is an evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but little is known about whether it is an acceptable and effective treatment for asylum-seekers presenting with PTSD. AIMS This study considers the acceptability of TFCBT for asylum-seekers with PTSD by exploring their experiences of this treatment. METHOD Seven asylum-seekers who...

There is a growing consensus that asylum seekers with professional nursing skills should be allowed to work here, but obstacles prevail. For example, attaining UK registration is not easy because of the difficulty of obtaining certificates and references from an asylum seeker's home country. Furthermore, current immigration restrictions prevent asylum seekers from working for six months followi...

The Australian system of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers has become increasingly controversial. Insofar as commentary on detention has been framed historically, critics have pointed to Australia’s race-based exclusionary laws and policies over the twentieth century. In this article, we suggest that exclusion and detention are not equivalent practices, even if they are often related. Here ...