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Schmidt, Susan. "Child Maltreatment & Child Migration: Abuse Disclosures by Central American and Mexican Unaccompanied Migrant Children." Journal on Migration and Human Security 10, no. 1 (February 23, 2022): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23315024221078951.
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While gang violence, community violence, and domestic violence have been recognized as contributing factors to Central American migration, less is known about the intersection between child maltreatment and migration. This article uses secondary data from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) interviews with unaccompanied minors from Central America and Mexico to examine child maltreatment. It provides information on the abused children, their abusers, and the questions that led to their disclosure of maltreatment. It finds that girls reported maltreatment at higher rates than boys; only girls in this sample reported sexual abuse and intimate partner violence; and boys experienced physical abuse more than any other form of maltreatment. Overall, girls experienced all forms of abuse at higher rate than boys. Fewer than half of this sample described maltreatment as an explicit reason for migration, even those who viewed it as a type of suffering, harm or danger. In addition, some disclosures suggest that childhood transitions, such as in housing, schooling, or work status, warrant further inquiry as a potential consequence of or contributor to maltreatment. The article recommends that professionals engaged with migrant children in social services, legal services, or migration protection and status adjudications should inquire about maltreatment, recognizing that children may reveal abuse in complex and indirect ways. Protection risks within the home or family environment may provide the grounds for US legal immigration protections, such as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) or asylum. Practitioners working with unaccompanied migrant children should use varied approaches to inquire about home country maltreatment experiences. Maltreatment may be part of the context of child migration, whether or not it is explicitly mentioned by children as a reason for migration. Policy Recommendations US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) should update SIJS regulations to reflect changes in the law, and modify application procedures to incorporate research knowledge on the impact of trauma on children. The US Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Justice (DOJ), and Health and Human Services (HHS), should ensure that all children in immigration proceedings receive legal representation through public-private partnerships overseen by the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Passage of Senate Bill 3108, the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act of 2021, 1 would at least guarantee legal representation for unaccompanied minors. Codify legal standards (via USCIS regulation, or Congressional statute) for granting asylum based on gender and gender-based violence, and include standards for children and youth. Adjudicators from USCIS, Asylum Offices, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) should consider new information about painful, traumatic, or shame-inducing experiences—such as child maltreatment—as part of the gradual process of disclosure, rather than negatively reflecting on the credibility of the applicant. Federal agencies with immigration responsibilities such as USCIS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and ORR, should be included in the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Interagency Task Force for Trauma-Informed Care. These agencies should require new trainings for immigration adjudicators, including immigration judges, asylum officers, Border Patrol agents, and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers, on interviewing and making decisions related to children. Legal service providers should adopt a holistic approach to service provision that includes social workers as part of the child’s legal team.
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Molina, Irma, Sarah Sanford, Raul Oyuela, Brenda Roche, and Frank Sirotich. "Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on Toronto's Spanish-speaking Latin American population: Qualitative study." International Health Trends and Perspectives 4, no. 1 (March 28, 2024): 14–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ihtp.v4i1.1936.
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified pre-existing health, social, and economic disparities in Canada, particularly affecting racialized, immigrant, refugee, and newcomer communities. While existing research indicates that Latin Americans have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, questions remain about why this group faces greater risk and worse health and other outcomes compared with the rest of the population. Despite knowledge of inequities in Toronto and elsewhere, research remains limited on the perspectives and experiences of specific communities throughout the pandemic. Methods: This qualitative research focuses on the experiences of Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Toronto who contracted COVID-19, had family members and friends who were sick from the virus, and/or provided services to Latin Americans in the city during the pandemic. Results: The study highlights challenges related to informal caregiving, language barriers in accessing healthcare, digital inequities, and difficulties faced by individuals with precarious immigration status. Conclusion: Understanding the experiences of Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Toronto can help identify necessary support and services to address these inequities in a post-pandemic scenario.
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Tankwanchi, Akhenaten Siankam, Anelisa Jaca, Heidi J. Larson, Charles S. Wiysonge, and Sten H. Vermund. "Taking stock of vaccine hesitancy among migrants: a scoping review protocol." BMJ Open 10, no. 5 (May 2020): e035225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035225.
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IntroductionAt the 72nd World Health Assembly of May 2019, WHO member states prioritised a global action plan to promote migrant and refugee health. Five months earlier, WHO had declared vaccine hesitancy—the reluctance to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccination services—as one of the top 10 threats to global health. Although vaccination is often a requirement for immigration, repeated outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases within certain immigrant communities in some host nations suggest that vaccine hesitancy could be a factor in their susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases. Studies of the prevalence and determinants of vaccine hesitancy among migrants globally seem to be lacking. This scoping review will (1) identify articles on vaccine hesitancy among migrants; (2) examine the extent and nature of the extant evidence; and (3) determine the value of undertaking a full systematic review.Methods and analysisThe framework for the scoping review proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute will be used. The reporting will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. Studies published in English or French between January 1999 and December 2019 will be drawn from most or all of the following multidisciplinary databases: Africa-Wide Information, Allied and Complementary Medicine, Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Literature in the Health Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, Medline, Proquest Theses/Dissertations, PsycInfo and Web of Science. The search will include an extensive list of keywords to capture multiple dimensions of confidence and hesitancy vis-à-vis vaccines among migrants. Findings will be reported through summary narratives, tables, flowcharts and evidence maps.Ethics and disseminationThis review is exempted from ethical approval and will be published in a peer-reviewed open-access journal to ensure wide dissemination.
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Córdova Quero, Hugo, and Nilta Dias. "Riding the Wave: Daily Life and Religion among Brazilian Immigrants to Japan in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic." Religions 12, no. 11 (October 29, 2021): 943. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12110943.
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In March 2020, the world folded before an imminent pandemic. Community gatherings, events, and rituals quickly moved online. Jobs halted or were conducted remotely. The fear of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted different areas of daily life. In this article, we propose examining and analyzing the experiences and narratives of Brazilian migrants in Japan. With the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act amendment on 8 December 1989, thousands of Japanese descendants born and raised in the Americas migrated to Japan. They are the offspring of Japanese immigrants who established colonies in the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Over time, the community of Brazilian immigrants in Japan fluctuated from being a minority to become the fifth-largest ethnic group of immigrants. Our analysis focuses on two areas of concern in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: daily life—including gender, and religion. On the one hand, daily life became cumbersome due to issues related to language and the hardships of accessing health services in a foreign land. On the other hand, we state that in the process of adaptation to the new society, the role of faith communities has been notable in offering support to these immigrants. Religious institutions, in particular, confronted the fact of moving their support and activities online with the consequent difficulties for those who are not tech-savvy or lack reliable connectivity. Both situations impacted Brazilian immigrants in different ways during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlighted the agency they displayed in coping with its consequences.
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Gateri, Helen. "Calculated Kindness? The Voices of Women Refugee Claimants: Accessing Pre- and Postnatal Health Care Services in Toronto, Ontario." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 40, no. 1 (June 17, 2024): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41186.
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In Canada, refugee claimants are given temporary immigration status, making access to health care services challenging. While the federal government determines the entitlements granted to refugee claimants, provinces are responsible for delivering health care services. This qualitative study conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with eight refugee claimants and six service providers in Toronto, Ontario. An intersectional theoretical framework was employed to examine the experiences of women refugee claimants and their complicated and often incomplete access to prenatal and postnatal health care services. Findings revealed that delivery of health care services in Ontario created barriers to access and under-utilization of services resulting from intersections of health coverage, immigration status, gender, class, and discrimination.
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Dossan, Zhanna. "Refugee Crisis in North America: Comparative Case Study of the United States and Canada." Journal of Politics and Law 14, no. 3 (March 29, 2021): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v14n3p59.
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The US continues to lean toward a traditional, negative approach (Gomez, 2018) and to encourage cultural diversity in Canada. In their initial immigration legislation, the Canada and US shared profound resemblances: both began with Euro- and Christian-centered laws in order to limit the influx of migrants from Southern/Eastern Europe and Asia. The researcher has taken an empirical approach to a comparative methodology, and performed a study of the immigration policies of each country empirically. Both qualitative and also quantitative data analysis approaches were used for the present research. The findings of the research suggest that the two countries share some of the foundational similarities concerning their initial immigration law. For instance, this includes the inception of their policies with the base as Euro and Christian policies, where both attempted to achieve restricted migration flow from the Asia as well as Southern/Eastern Europe. However, with time, the changes in the migration policies have occurred due to the diverging socio-cultural as well as geographical aspects.
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Wang, Hong. "Immigration in America: library services and information resources." Reference Services Review 40, no. 3 (August 10, 2012): 480–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00907321211254715.
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Widanti, Ni Putu Tirka, and Charles Fernandes. "Effectiveness of Foreign Refugee Handling Services by Kupang Regional Government with the International Organization for Migration (IOM)." JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik) 26, no. 2 (November 30, 2022): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jkap.70215.
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This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the service for handling the refugee from abroad in Kupang by the Regional Government of Kupang in collaboration with IOM after the delivery from the Kupang Immigration Detention Center and to examine the factors that cause the ineffectiveness of the foreign refugee handling services. This study uses qualitative research approach that focuses on analyzing the services for handling refugees from abroad in Kupang based on the concept of good service characteristics. The study found that the implementation of services for handling refugees from abroad in Kupang has not been effective due to: lack of participation by the Kupang Regional Government, lack of maintenance in the facilities and infrastructure in the shelter, lack of human resources officers at the shelter, local government feels not responsible for handling refugees, health services are less responsive, language barriers, Kupang local government does not have a database of refugees from abroad, lack of knowledge on refugee status and human rights enforcement by immigration officers, the reactive attitude of the refugees that reduce the trust of the Kupang Rudenim. In conclusion, the effectiveness of refugees from abroad handling services in Kupang which is managed by the Kupang Regional Government in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM) is still not optimal if judged based on good service indicators.
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Griego, Manuel García y. "International Migration Statistics in Mexico." International Migration Review 21, no. 4 (December 1987): 1245–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791838702100415.
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During the past decade Mexico has experienced both large-scale emigration, directed mostly to the United States, and the mass immigration of Central American refugees. The implementation of the United States Immigration and Control Act of 1986 and the possible escalation of armed conflicts in Central America may result in expanded inflows either of returning citizens or of new refugee waves. To develop appropriate policy responses, Mexico would need reliable information on international migration flows. This note reviews available sources of that information and evaluates their strengths and limitations.
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Atak, Idil, Graham Hudson, and Delphine Nakache. "Policing Canada’s Refugee System: A Critical Analysis of the Canada Border Services Agency." International Journal of Refugee Law 31, no. 4 (December 2019): 464–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eez040.
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Abstract The officers of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) play pivotal roles at various stages in Canada’s refugee system, making decisions that are life-changing for asylum seekers. This article examines the evolving institutional setting and processes that define the CBSA’s enforcement policy and its consequences for asylum seekers in Canada. Drawing on the findings of field-research, conducted between October 2015 and May 2018 in three Canadian provinces (Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec), it argues that the Agency operates in a specific social universe heavily shaped by the post-9/11 geopolitical context of the criminalization of migration. This situation has been exacerbated by the major overhaul of Canada’s refugee system, undertaken by the previous Conservative government in 2012. The article further contends that the way the CBSA has been involved in refugee status determination turns Canada’s refugee system into an adversarial and unfair process for some groups of asylum seekers. To that end, it highlights the CBSA’s policies in three areas: eligibility determination, front-end security screening of refugee claimants, and ministerial interventions at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Immigration and Refugee Services of America"
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Dunman, Kristina M. "Improving long-term resettlement services for refugees, asylees, and asylum seekers : perspectives from service providers." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001748.
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Maniragena, Joseph Eliabson. "An evaluation of service effectiveness of selected refugee service providers in urban and surrounding areas of the Cape Town Metropolitan Area." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1639.
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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Technology: Public Management
in the Faculty of Business
at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2014Thousands of refugees fleeing from surrounding war-torn and destitute African countries come to South Africa hoping to live in safety. Refugee service providers play a major role in providing services to help refugees achieve self-sufficiency soon after entering the country, and the support and assistance required to rebuild their lives and integrate into South African society. The study investigated issues facing refugees in South Africa, particularly in Cape Town, and how service providers assist them in overcoming the hardships of being unprepared in a foreign country. The researcher followed a mixed methods approach, implementing both qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore services provided to refugees in Cape Town by three refugee service providers, namely the Agency for Refugee Education, Skills Training and Advocacy (ARESTA), Cape Town Refugee Centre (CTRC) and Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (SCCT). Quantitative data was collected by administering a survey questionnaire to 120 refugees, all clients of the selected service providers, to obtain their perceptions about the services they receive. The researcher also conducted semi-structured interviews with senior staff of two of the service providers to gain insight into the services offered and challenges they face in assisting their clients. The study revealed that the majority of clients received assistance, with 75 percent of respondents reporting having received assistance and only 6.67 percent reporting not having received the requested assistance. However, some who had received services indicated too few services were on offer for them to choose from; they took what was offered although these may not have been what they really required. Reasons some refugees do not get services include lack of proper documentation and problems related to the non-availability of the services required by refugees. This is largely due to insufficient funding to provide needed services, and results in refugee service providers either serving only a few people or providing insufficient aid. The study highlights good practices, suggests improvements and concludes with recommendations for the key stakeholders concerned.
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McParland, Domminick. "Is Self-Sufficiency Really Sufficient? A Critical Analysis of Federal Refugee Resettlement Policy and Local Attendant English Language Training in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1697.
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Since the 1951 United Nations Convention, nations have dealt with refugee issues in various ways. In the United States, since the Vietnam War, there has been great debate and a significant amount of research on issues of refugee resettlement, with these discourses inherently involving issues of power and ideology. English language training and the promotion of economic self-sufficiency have been interventions used to integrate and assimilate refugees into American culture and society. These two interventions were the subject of the current investigation.
The purpose of this study was to look into the way federal refugee resettlement policy mandated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) construes the notion of self-sufficiency in policy documents; and whether or not that constructed version of self-sufficiency is reflected or reinforced in the local attendant English language training, provided by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization's (IRCO) Pre-Employment Training's English language training courses.
Through a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and analytic techniques influenced by Corpus Linguistics, this study was able to investigate the construal of self-sufficiency in ORR refugee resettlement policy and its reflection in IRCO PET ELT.
The ORR policy Title 45: Public Welfare, Part 400: Refugee Settlement Program and the lesson plans and materials of IRCO's PET's SPL levels 2 and 3 were analyzed with a textual analysis, process analysis, and social analysis. The ORR policy also underwent a collocation comparison analysis that employed the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
The results of this qualitative study indicate that the federal resettlement policy exploits a common connotation of self-sufficiency to mask its underlying subjugating policies that position resettled refugees into early employment positions with little opportunities for higher education or occupational advancement. The ELT provided by IRCO's PET program reflects and reinforces the ORR's construed notion of self-sufficiency as well as its underlying hegemonic agenda.
These findings this relate to broader discourses of immigration, neoliberalism, and education in the United States. Conclusions drawn from this investigation have pedagogical implications and applications that are discussed.
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Biagolini, Rosangela Elaine Minéo. "Trabalho e adoecimento por tuberculose em bolivianos atendidos nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde da Supervisão Técnica de Saúde Penha/São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/7/7141/tde-23062015-142250/.
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Introdução: A tuberculose (TB) entre bolivianos tem apresentado importante magnitude epidemiológica no Município de São Paulo. Objetivo: Analisar características sociodemográficas, de trabalho e relativas ao processo saúde-doença de um grupo de imigrantes bolivianos com TB, atendidos nas Unidades Básicas de Saúde da região da Supervisão Técnica de Saúde da Penha (STS-Pe), da Secretaria da Saúde do Município de São Paulo. Métodos: Estudo de abordagem quali-quantitativa, desenvolvido na área da STS-Pe que, em uma primeira Etapa, utilizou banco de dados gerado pelo sistema TBWeb para identificar o perfil epidemiológico de pessoas com TB, bolivianos e não bolivianos, residentes na região, no período de 2006 a 2013. Tais dados foram sistematizados por meio do pacote estatístico R. Em uma segunda Etapa foram realizadas entrevistas a 22 bolivianos em tratamento nas UBS, as quais foram analisadas segundo técnica de análise de discurso e interpretadas à luz da Hermenêutica-Dialética e da Teoria da Determinação Social do Processo Saúde Doença. Resultados: Na primeira etapa do estudo, totalizaram 225 bolivianos e 2031 não bolivianos. A comparação entre os grupos apontou diferenças significativas em relação a: faixa etária, raça/cor, ocupação, local de residência, comorbidades, forma da doença, tipo de descoberta, local de tratamento, teste HIV, baciloscopia de diagnóstico, Tratamento Diretamente Observado (TDO) e encerramento. Na segunda etapa, foram prevalentes: 59,1% eram do sexo masculino, 90,9% entre 20 a 39 anos, 72,8% originários de La Paz, 59,1% encontravam-se no Brasil há menos 5 anos, 90,9% tinham 8 ou mais anos de estudo, 85,6 eram costureiros, 71,4% trabalhavam 50 ou mais horas/semana. Em relação à doença: para 81,8% a TB foi diagnosticada em serviços de urgência e internação; 81,8% eram novos casos, 90,9% tinham a forma pulmonar, 77,3 % tiveram menos de 80% dos contatos examinados e 27,3% realizaram TDO. Dos depoimentos dos entrevistados emergiram 3 categorias analíticas: Trabalho, Processo Saúde-Doença e Assistência. Identificou-se a preponderância da categoria Trabalho sobre o processo saúde-doença. De fato, o trabalho desenvolvido pelos sujeitos do estudo revelou sobretudo processos de desgaste: jornadas de trabalho extensas, baixa remuneração, fragmentação e parcelamento do trabalho. O adoecimento interfere na rotina de trabalho e os entrevistados identificaram como causas da doença, a falta de ventilação no local de trabalho e a alimentação inadequada, entre outras. A adesão ao tratamento tem como motivação a confiança na cura pela medicação e evitar a transmissão aos familiares próximos. Em relação à assistência prestada, os bolivianos identificaram problemas com o idioma, além de sentirem discriminação manifesta em atitudes dos profissionais de saúde. A maioria dos pacientes não recebeu informação sobre o TDO e os benefícios que poderiam ser advindos da estratégia, além de apresentarem dificuldade para retirar a medicação na UBS. Entretanto, reconheceram a importância da gratuidade dos serviços de saúde. Conclusões: O processo saúde-doença dos imigrantes mostrou-se intrinsecamente relacionado às condições de trabalho a que este grupo está submetido. Aponta-se a necessidade da reorganização do modelo assistencial, de forma a corresponder à saúde como um direito de cidadania.Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) among Bolivians has presented an important epidemiological magnitude in the City of São Paulo. Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic characteristics of work and the Health-Disease Process (HDP) for a group of Bolivian immigrants with TB, who were treated in Basic Health Units (BHUs) in the region of Health Technical Supervision in Penha (HTS-Pe), of the Health Department in the City of São Paulo. Methods: A study of qualitative and quantitative approach, developed in the HTS-Pe area that, in the first step, used the database generated by the TBWeb system to identify the epidemiological profile of people with TB, Bolivians and non-Bolivians living in the region during the period of 2006-2013. These data were summarized using the statistical package R. In the second step, interviews were carried out with 22 Bolivians in treatment in BHUs during 2012 e 2013, which were analyzed according to the speech analysis technique and interpreted following hermeneutics-dialectics and the Theory of Social Determination of the HDP. Results: The first stage of the study included 225 Bolivians and 2031 non- Bolivians. The comparison between the groups showed significant differences in relation to: age, race/color, occupation, place of residence, comorbidities, clinical form of the disease, type of discovery, place of treatment, HIV testing, BAAR, Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) and outcome. In the second stage the following were prevalent: 59.1% were male, 90.9% between the ages of 20 and 39, 72.8% came from La Paz-Bolívia, 59.1% were in Brazil for at least 5 years, 90.9% had eight or more years of schooling, 85.6 were couturiers/seamstresses, and 71.4% worked 50 or more hours per week. In relation to the disease: 81.8% of TB cases was diagnosed in emergency and hospitalization services; 81.8% were new cases, 90.9% had pulmonary TB, 77.3% had less than 80% of the contacts examined and 27.3% had DOT. Of the interviewees\' statements three analytical categories emerged: Work, HDP and Health Assistance. A preponderance of the category Work over HDP was identified. This illness interferes with routine work and respondents identified as causes of disease, the lack of ventilation in the workplace and a poor diet, among others. Adherence to treatment is motivated by confidence in the healing medication and to prevent transmission to close family members. Regarding the assistance provided, the Bolivians have identified problems with the language, and feel discrimination in the attitudes of the health professionals. Most patients did not receive information during the DOT and the benefits that could be coming from the strategy, in addition to having difficulty to receive the medication in the BHUs. However, they had recognized the importance of the free health services. Conclusion: The HDP of immigrants proved to be intrinsically related to the working conditions under which this group is submitted. The need to reorganize the care model in order to match health, as a inherent right of citizenship, was pointed out.
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Mills, Regina Marie. "Guatemalan diasporic fiction as refugee literature : an analysis of Héctor Tobar’s The tattooed soldier and Tanya Maria Barrientos’s Family resemblance." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26373.
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Despite a large influx of Guatemalans to cities such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., their narrative has largely been subsumed in the traditional Latino/a immigrant narrative. The importance of the historical specificity and traumatic nature of Guatemalan immigration, as a consequence of the Central American revolutions, has only now begun to be studied by scholars such as Arturo Arias and Claudia Milian, though the field of Latino/a studies is still largely focused on immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Thus, through an examination of two novels by Guatemalan-American authors, Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier (1998/2000) and Tanya Maria Barrientos’ Family Resemblance (2003), I compare how each novel differently positions Guatemalan diasporic identity around traumas surrounding the Guatemalan civil war and diaspora. Ultimately, I argue that Tobar establishes Guatemalan diasporic fiction as a kind of refugee literature, while Barrientos attempts to fit the Guatemalan diasporic narrative into a traditional Latino/a immigrant narrative using the genre of chica lit, thus flattening out the unique historical experience of the Guatemalan civil war while also highlighting the constraints of the chica lit genre for Central American-American women writers.text
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Govere, Edward. "Exploring the perceptions of refugees and asylum seekers regarding access to mental health services in Zimbabwe: a case study of Tongogara refugee camp." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24622.
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In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts (Migration and Displacement) by Coursework and Research Report, August 2017In Zimbabwe, the past two decades have been characterized by a growing flow of refugees into the country from other parts of the continent such as Burundi, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Somalia. Drawing from the biomedical model, prevailing discourses about mental health posit that after going through traumatic experiences in the wartorn regions of the world, refugees and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to developing mental health problems and are, therefore, in need of counselling and psychosocial services. This assumption has guided, and has subsequently been supported by, several studies conducted in the Global North, and there is generally a lack of local literature and research that either confirm or challenge the assumption in Southern Africa. This research was prompted by such a substantial research gap and therefore seeks to examine the perceptions of refugees regarding mental health and access to care. The study identified Tongogara Refugee Camp as the study site and targeted adult individuals aged 18 and above, residing in the camp, as well as officials from the Zimbabwean Ministry of Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Christian Care, Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), clinic officials as well as faith-based leaders. The access to health care framework (McIntyre, Thiede, & Birch, 2009), was used as the basis and theoretical framework for this research to explore the various factors determining availability, affordability and acceptability. The overall methodology employed was the qualitative approach and the case study research design. Respondents were recruited through the purposive sampling method and semi-structured interviews were used for data gathering. Thematic content analysis yielded participants’ perceptions of mental health and access to care through their descriptions of pre-migration trauma and post-migration stress as the major causes of mental illness, and expressions of mental illness such as sadness, worrying, wandering aimlessly through the camp, talking too much and violence. The study sheds light on the problems of medicalizing distress and human suffering, particularly the limitations of the biomedical model of mental health treatment. Camp residents mainly rely on spirituality and social support for coping with mental health. Several issues, relating to all the dimensions of the concept of access were identified, including language barriers, temporary solution to a permanent problem, lengthy waiting times, as well as ill-treatment at the camp clinic. Recommendations include the key need to be cautious about the importation of Western biomedical approaches, the need to pay more attention to the prevention of mental health problems and the promotion of mental health through action on the social determinants of health, the need for language interpreter services at the camp clinic, the need for improved engagement with refugee families, and the need for resettlement. Such information may help add to the body of available literature on refugee and asylum seekers’ access to health services and to literature that is exploring the development of appropriate responses to mental wellbeing in the Southern African context.
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Books on the topic "Immigration and Refugee Services of America"
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Immigration and Refugee Services of America. Immigration and Refugee Services of America records, 1918-1985: Guide to the microfilm collection. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 2002.
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Zucker, Norman L. Desperate crossings: Seeking refuge in America. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996.
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Triay, Victor Andres. Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
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Zúñiga, Eustache, and Carole Lugo. Coming to America: Refugee admissions and assistance. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2011.
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Office, General Accounting. Refugees: Overseas processing of admissions applications : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1988.
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Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (New York). Refugee and immigrant service: Rapid reference. New York: Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 2001.
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Canada, Public Service Commission of. Audit of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada: A report. Ottawa: Public Service Commission of Canada, 2009.
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Boslow, Dorman Lisa, and New York (State). Office of the Welfare Inspector General., eds. An investigation into the Refugee Social Services Program of the New York State Department of Social Services, Bureau of Refugee and Immigration Affairs, Contract No. C007369. New York, N.Y: The State of New York, Office of the Welfare Inspector General, 1997.
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Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Government Relations and Aboriginal Affairs. Meeting needs and making connections: A report on the Saskatchewan immigrant and refugee settlement needs and retention study. Regina]: Saskatchewan Government Relations and Aboriginal Affairs, 2002.
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Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy (Washington, D.C.), ed. Re-creating America: The ethics of U.S. immigration and refugee policy in a Christian perspective. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press in cooperation with the Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy, Washington, D.C., 1996.
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Herrera, Gioconda. "Venezuelans in Latin America." In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, 388–95. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003194316-45.
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García, María Cristina. "Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the Politics of US Refugee Policy." In A Companion to Latina/o Studies, 480–91. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781405177603.ch43.
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Lutomia, Anne Namatsi, Julia Bello Bravo, Dorothy Owino Rombo, and Fatimata Seck. "Becoming an African Hair Salon Entrepreneur in the United States of America." In Immigration and Refugee Policy, 31–51. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8909-9.ch003.
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African beauty salons are important institutions within the African and African American community and can be found in nearly every city and community where African immigrants have settled. This study utilizes content review and a single case study to explore the pathways to African women's entrepreneurship and business sustainability within the care industry of hair braiding. The authors applied the push and pull theory to illuminate the “non-choice” of salon entrepreneurship for educated African immigrant women. In general, the study shows the efforts of one entrepreneur to fit the unique exigencies of (African) hair braiding to local (western) business requirements. The study identifies how better accommodation of those exigencies would less inhibit this form of African women's entrepreneurship in general and thus benefit local communities at large through more sustainable service delivery, increased revenue flow, and infrastructural support for immigrants in general.
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Erickson, Jennifer. "Sibling Rivalry." In Race-ing Fargo, 92–121. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751134.003.0004.
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This chapter highlights practices of welfare workers in Fargo and compares them to practices of refugee resettlement workers in order to better understand how these institutions have shaped citizenship as well as local race, class, and gender formations in similar and different ways by framing them as siblings in the kinship of neoliberalism. The chapter specifically talks about the Cass County Social Services and the New American Services. Like siblings, workers in both sectors have competed and cooperated as they have worked with New Americans in the city. These institutions and their locations in the public/private borderlands are important loci for understanding varying approaches to citizenship, immigration, race, labor and class, and gender. The chapter also talks about the 1966 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), or simply “welfare reform”.
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Cox, Adam B., and Cristina M. Rodríguez. "Managing and Manufacturing Crisis." In The President and Immigration Law, 47–78. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190694364.003.0003.
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This chapter traces the origins of American refugee policy. Twentieth-century refugee policy provides a powerful example of how presidents have played a leading role in determining which noncitizens should be allowed to enter the United States, and it reflects the dynamism and creativity of executive governance. In the service of foreign affairs and humanitarianism, presidents of this era transformed bureaucratic tools meant to be case management devices, such as the parole power, into instruments for remaking the immigration system by their own lights. Perhaps not surprisingly, the specter of emergency frequently has propelled these presidential initiatives. Wartime labor shortages and sudden refugee crises have given rise to vivid examples of executive unilateralism. But much of the historical use of the parole power fits uncomfortably into an emergency framework: the statutory grant hardly looks like a delegation of emergency authority. The President’s influence over immigration instead has deeper roots. His role has extended far beyond responding rapidly in emergency contexts to exploiting seemingly limited powers to serve an administration’s ongoing foreign and domestic policy objectives.
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Arthur, Tori. "Nollywood Afrogeeks." In Immigration and Refugee Policy, 316–34. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8909-9.ch018.
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Viewing Nigerian film, known as Nollywood, in online platforms provides African immigrants living in the United States with digital spaces to engage with the African continent through films with relatable Pan-African themes. Nollywood on social media sites (YouTube and subscription services IrokoTV, Amazon, and Netflix) marks the Nigerian film industry as a transnational participatory movement that enables immigrants to use the technology at their disposal to watch and comment on films, connect with their cultural values, and become a part of a global digital community of dispersed Africans and African descended populations. Thus, immigrants become a part of a Nollywood focused digital diaspora, a cultural space that illuminated the plurality immigrants negotiate on and off the continent.
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Erçetin, Şefika Şule, and Sevda Kubilay. "Educational Expectations of Refugee Mothers for Their Children." In Immigration and Refugee Policy, 76–94. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8909-9.ch005.
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The aim of this study is to determine refugee mothers' educational expectations for their children. It is a qualitative research designed with phenomenological approach, which is one of the qualitative research methods. Twenty volunteer mothers coming from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan were participated in the study. An interview form, including open-ended questions, was used as a data collection tool. The data was collected by face to face meetings with each participant. Content analysis was applied to the data gathered. Findings indicate that the refugee mothers' expectations from the schools are guidance and counseling services for refugee students, more social activities at schools, more intensive Maths and language courses, effective communication and interaction between students, parents and schools. Most of the refugee mothers would like to settle down in a more developed country and they don't want their children continue their education in Turkey.
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Cooper, Lareen, Mary Nash, and Antoinette Umugwaneza. "Social Work With Refugee Women." In Immigration and Refugee Policy, 406–26. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8909-9.ch022.
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In this chapter on resettlement social work with women refugees, they are portrayed as resilient yet reluctant users of social work services. While the field of social work with refugees has already been widely introduced and discussed, less attention has been paid to resettlement work with women refugees. In order to contextualise this discussion, key terms are briefly defined, and relevant legislation together with demographic features are covered. The chapter includes a case study, presented by one of the authors, herself an expert by experience. We present open source as well as current research published in academic journals relating to this field of practice. Research methods and ethical issues including practice dilemmas associated with the concept of empowerment are discussed. Practical applications and cultural concerns derived from the research suggest how practitioners and refugee women may work together using participatory methods to draw on the strengths and experience of the refugee women to achieve goals which are consistent with those set out by the United Nations High Commission.
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Erçetin, Şefika Şule, Nihan Potas, Şuay Nilhan Açıkalın, Nedim Özdemir, and Abdullah Mesut Doğan. "Municipalities and Refugee Crisis." In Social Considerations of Migration Movements and Immigration Policies, 46–57. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3322-1.ch003.
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Truly, while some countries are still grappling with policy issues to do with acceptance of the refugees in their respective countries, Turkey has become a safe haven to many, a refugee. This has not only featured the ordinary aspects of food, shelter, drinking water, clothing but also services like education, health, social services and transport assistance. Even more crucially, Turkey has offered other aspects bordering on integration, rights and freedoms, representation, mainstreaming and identity which are critical to the asylum seekers. This makes them feel at home especially given that they may end up staying for a long time or even never return to their homes. Such a process requires multi-dimensional legal and administrative regulation but Turkey has always come up with its own localized version of legal settings to accommodate spontaneous issues. This is what has distinguished Turkey from all other countries in the world given its immeasurable, priceless and invaluable handling of asylum seekers.
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"Integration paradigms in Europe and North America." In Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies, 193–203. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315759302-32.
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