Research into the psychological well-being of young refugees

Interest in the psychological well-being of refugees and asylum seekers has steadily grown in recent years. Latest estimates indicate there are 32.9 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2006). A refugee is defined as being in that position because of a well...

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Autores principales: Lau, Winnie, Thomas, Trang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008
Materias:
Thematic Paper–Migration and Psychiatric Adjustment
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507946
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description Interest in the psychological well-being of refugees and asylum seekers has steadily grown in recent years. Latest estimates indicate there are 32.9 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2006). A refugee is defined as being in that position because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, and who is consequently outside and unable to return to his or her country. The status of ‘refugee’ is contrasted with that of a person seeking asylum, whose experiences may be similar but who is not formally determined in the same way.
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spelling pubmed-67348292019-09-10 Research into the psychological well-being of young refugees Lau, Winnie Thomas, Trang Int Psychiatry Thematic Paper–Migration and Psychiatric Adjustment Interest in the psychological well-being of refugees and asylum seekers has steadily grown in recent years. Latest estimates indicate there are 32.9 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2006). A refugee is defined as being in that position because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion, and who is consequently outside and unable to return to his or her country. The status of ‘refugee’ is contrasted with that of a person seeking asylum, whose experiences may be similar but who is not formally determined in the same way. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2008-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734829/ /pubmed/31507946 Text en © 2008 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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