Detention of asylum seekers: Assault on health, human rights, and social development

Lancet

Volumn 357, Issue 9266, 2001, Pages 1436-1437

  Silove, Derrick ^a   Steel, Zachary ^a   Mollica, Richardf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAULT; DECISION MAKING; DETENTION; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRATION; MENTAL HEALTH; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REFUGEE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0035810608     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04575-X     Document Type: Note

References (2)

1. Human Rights Watch. Locked away: immigration detainees in jails in the United States, September, 1998. Available at http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports98/us-immig/index.html , accessed March 9, 2000.
2. Thompson M., McGorry P., Silove D., Steel Z. The mental health and well-being of on-shore asylum seekers in Australia. Sydney: Psychiatry Research & Teaching Unit, 1998: 27-31.