International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care: Volume 2 Issue 1

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Torture, Mental Health Status and the Outcomes of Refugee Applications among Recently Arrived Asylum Seekers in Australia

Derrick Silove, Zachary Steel, Ina Susljik, Naomi Frommer, Celia Loneragan, Robert Brooks, Dominique le Touze, Vijaya Manicavasagar, Mariano Ceollo, Mitchell Smith, Elizabeth Harris

There are ongoing concerns that asylum seekers who have been tortured and who suffer trauma‐related mental disorders are being refused protection by countries in which they seek…

Completing the Jigsaw: A Service Provider's Response to the Health Needs of Refugees in the London Borough of Camden

David Palmer

This article is concerned with strategies for combating health inequalities for refugees. It explores a service provider's (St Pancras Refugee Centre) response to the mental…

Urban Multilingualism and the Development of a Local Communication Support Strategy in Tower Hamlets: Fieldwork Report

Berhanu Kassayie

This article reports the outcomes of a study on communication support, commissioned to develop a borough‐wide strategy in 2003 by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.The research…

Refugee Resettlement Programmes as Potential Mental Health Promoting Settings? A Qualitative Study of Resettlement Staff's Constructions of Refugees' Mental Health in Everyday Episodes

Fredrik Lindencrona, Solvig Ekblad

In order to investigate the potential of refugee resettlement programmes as mental healthpromoting settings, this study examines resettlement staff's constructions of refugees'…

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ISSN:

1747-9894

Online date, start – end:

2005

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Charles Watters