Adaptation of sudanese refugees in an Australian context: Investigating helps and hindrances

International Migration

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-46

  Shakespeare Finch, Jane ^a   Wickham, Kylie ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; RESETTLEMENT POLICY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

AUSTRALIA; SUDAN;

EID: 73549101960     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00561.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Beiser M, Hou F. Language acquisition, unemployment and depressive disorder among Southeast Asian refugees: A 10-year study. Social Science and Medicine 2001, 53:1321-1334.
2. Berman H. Children and war: Current understandings and future directions. Public Health Nursing 2001, 18(4):243-252.
3. Berry JW. Cross-cultural psychology: Research and applications 1992, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
4. Coker EM. Dislocated identity and the fragmented body: Discourses of resistance among Southern Sudanese refugees in Cairo. Journal of Refugee Studies 2004, 17(4):401-419.
5. Cunningham M, Cunningham JD. Patterns of symptomology and patterns of torture and trauma experiences in resettled refugees. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1997, 31:555-565.
6. Top 20 countries by migration stream for: Migration stream: All settlers, ethnicity: All settlers, state/territory: Tasmania, sex: All settlers, settlers arriving from 1 Jan 2000 to 31 Dec 2004 2005, Retrieved by personal communication (email) from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Hobart
7. Fantino AM, Colak A. Refugee children in Canada: Searching for identity. Child welfare 2001, 80(5):587-596.
8. Fenta H, Hyman I, Noh S. Determinants of depression among Ethiopian immigrants and refugees in Toronto. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2004, 192(5):363-372.
9. Fontes LA. Ethics in family violence research: Cross-cultural issues. Family Relations 1998, 47(1):53-61.
10. Howard M, Hodes M. Psychopathology, adversity, and service utilization of young refugees. Journal of the American academy of child and adolescent psychiatry 2000, 39(3):368-377.
11. Langdridge D. Introduction to research methods and data analysis in psychology 2004, Pearson Education Limited, Essex
12. McMichael C, Manderson L. Somali women and well-being: Social networks and social capital among immigrant women in Australia. Human Organization 2004, 63(1):88-99.
13. Maykut P, Morehouse R. Beginning qualitative research: A philosophical and practical guide 1994, The Falmer Press, London
14. Massey S. Qualitative approaches to the study of thriving: What can be learned? Journal of Social Issues 1998, 54(2):337-355.
15. Muhwezi WW, Sam DL. Adaptation of urban refugees in Uganda: Astudy of their socio-cultural and psychological well being in Kampala city. Journal of Psychology in Africa 2004, 14(1):37-46.
16. Organista PB, Organista KC, Kurasaki K, Chun KM, Organista PB, Marin G. The relationship between acculturation and ethnic minority health. Acculturation: Advances in theory, measurement, and applied research 2002, 139-161. in, Eds, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
17. Paardekooper B, de Jong JTVM, Hermanns JMA. The psychological impact of war and the refugee situation on South Sudanese children in refugee camps in Northern Uganda: An exploratory study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 1999, 40(4):529-536.
18. Rousseau C. Resilience in unaccompanied minors from the North of Somalia. Psychoanalytic Review 1998, 85(4):615-637.
19. Ryen A, Gubrium JF, Holstein JA. Cross-cultural interviewing. Handbook of interview research: Context and method 2001, 335-354. in, Eds, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks
20. Schweitzer R, Buckley L, Rossi D. The psychological treatment of refugees and asylum seekers: What does the literature tell us? 2002, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2102sbr.html, Mots Pluriels No. 21,
21. Schweitzer R, Melville F, Steel Z, Lacherez P. Trauma, post-migration living difficulties, and social support as predictors of psychological adjustment in resettled Sudanese refugees. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2006, 40:179-187.
22. Schweitzer R, Kagee A, Greenslade J. Salient concerns of refugees. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2007, 41(3):282-287.
23. Smith JA, Flowers P, Osborn M, Yardley L. Interpretative phenomenological analysis and the psychology of health and illness. Material discourses of health and illness 1997, 68-91. In, Ed, Routledge, London
24. Smith JA, Osborn M, Smith JA. Interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative psychology: A practical guide to research methods 2003, 53-83. In, Ed, Sage Publications, London
25. Udo-Expo LT. The Africans in Australia: Expectations and shattered Dreams 1999, Seaview Press, Henley Beach, SA
26. Background paper on refugees and asylum seekers from the Sudan 2000, UNHCR, Centre for Documentation and Research, Geneva
27. Sudan fact sheet 2004, http://www.refugees.org/news/fact_sheets/faq_sudan_facts102300.htm
28. Weine SM. Mental health and refugee families. USA Today 2002, 130(2680):26-28.