..., little is known about the experiences and needs of displaced older people (World Health Organisation (WHO), 2022). The prevailing focus of governments and humanitarian agencies on children and working-age asylum seekers and refugees (ASRs) has resulted in inadequate policy and provision targeting...

... interventions for refugees, which informed the eligibility criteria (Table 1). As the available literature on just refugees was quite limited during this search, the eligibility criteria were expanded to also explore asylum seekers, forced migrants, and/or displaced people. For clarity, all populations...

... services in Australia. Design/methodology/approach Eleven individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with two general practitioners (GPs) and nine consumers from two clinics, at locations with high Iranian and Burmese refugee or asylum seeker populations. Interviews were transcribed...

... only Australia Health Refugee Health care Asylum seeker Immigration detention Offshore detention The Australian immigration detention system has been a subject of significant debate and controversy over the past decades (Essex, 2020). Since 1992, the country’s migration law requires...

...Katherine Whitehouse; Ella Lambe; Sofia Rodriguez; Umberto Pellecchia; Aurelie Ponthieu; Rafael Van den Bergh; Djoen Besselink Purpose Prolonged exposure to daily stressors can have long-term detrimental implications for overall mental health. For asylum seekers in European Union transit...

... users (n=12) and staff (n=5) from four local support organisations, for people with refugee and asylum seeker status and those with diverse cultural backgrounds. Aims of the project were to expand Western-centric understandings regarding beneficial support and the promotion of good...

...Jurgita Rimkeviciene; John O’Gorman; Diego De Leo Purpose Recent reports raise suicidality among asylum seekers as a pertinent issue in current Australian offshore detention centres. However, knowledge on the nature of the suicidality in these centres is very limited. The purpose of this paper...

... by the complex interplay within different social actors that contact during the settlement process of forced migrants inside host societies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Health services Identity Settlement Asylum seeker Refugee Social representation When moving away from public...

...Dora Bernardes; John Wright; Celia Edwards; Helen Tomkins; Darias Dlfoz; Andrew Livingstone The literature tends to use ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’ interchangeably, creating uncertainty about the mental health of asylum seekers. However, asylum seekers occupy a unique position in British society...

...Adeyinka M. Akinsulure‐Smith; Wilma L. Jones Purpose This paper aims to discuss the development of a unique, grassroots, community‐based organization, Nah We Yone (NWY), designed specifically to provide support to African refugees and asylum seekers, with a history of refugee trauma, war...

...Lucy Williams This article examines current issues in the use of interpreting services, as experienced by refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. The paper begins with a review of relevant literature on interpreting services and relates it to the service context and the specific needs of refugees...