Refugee Populations
Refugee Health
People of refugee background are affected by distinct health inequalities that arise from their experiences both prior to arrival in Australia and after arrival. These issues are often compounded by the effects of torture and trauma. Prior to arrival, some refugee clients may have had:
- Interrupted access to health care
- Limited access to safe drinking water, inadequate/interrupted access to nutritious food
- Limited access to preventative care, medical treatment or health education
- Experiences of uncertainty, deprivation, loss of dignity, separation from loved ones and being forced to make impossible decisions.
Even after arrival in Australia, obstacles remain such as:
- High barriers to service access
- Being a minority in an unfamiliar culture
- Having to negotiate new systems (often with low English proficiency)
- Ongoing separation from loved ones
- Stress related to receiving bad news from country of origin/refuge
- Not having vocational skills recognized
‘Refugee Transitions’ – Download magazine from STARTTS
Refugee Populations
- GLOBAL TRENDS FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN 2020 (UNHCR)
- Understanding Refugee communities – Refugee Council of Australia
- Timeline of Australia’s refugee policies [2019] UNSW Law Society Court of Conscience 13
- Queensland Health – Community Profiles
- Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants – National Centre for Longitudinal Data – David Marshall Read it here.
Yazidi Population
- Client Group: YAZIDI – STARTTS
- Individual, collective, and transgenerational traumatization in the Yazidi (BMC Medicine)
Syrian Population
Central African Republic
Central African Republic – Africa’s Forgotten War
Rohingya refugees
- Abuse or Exile: Myanmar’s Ongoing Persecution of the Rohingya – Refugees International
- CULTURE, CONTEXT AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ROHINGYA REFUGEES; A review for staff in mental health and psychosocial support programmes for Rohingya refugees (UNHCR, 2018)