Beginning Again: West African Women's Experiences of Being Migrants in Australia

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-286

  Ogunsiji, Olayide ^a   Wilkes, Lesley ^a   Jackson, Debra ^b   Peters, Kath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian immigrants; family health; immigrant women; qualitative study; transcultural health; West African immigrants; women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECORDING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAPE RECORDING; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84863214651     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: 15527832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659612441018     Document Type: Article

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