Sexual violence and sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco: A community-based participatory assessment using respondent driven sampling

Globalization and Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Keygnaert, Ines ^a   Dialmy, Abdessamad ^b   Manço, Altay ^c   Keygnaert, Jeroen ^a   Vettenburg, Nicole ^a   Roelens, Kristien ^a   Temmerman, Marleen ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY IN RABAT   (Morocco)

^c Institute of Research Training and Action on Migration (IRFAM)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR); European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); Migrants; Morocco; Prevention; Rape; Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS); Sexual violence

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMIGRATION POLICY; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; REFUGEE; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MIGRANT; MIGRATION; MOROCCO; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL; VICTIM; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CRIME VICTIM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; INTERVIEW; REFUGEE; SEXUAL CRIME; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIOLENCE;

MOROCCO;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOROCCO; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SEX OFFENSES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84900424908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-10-32     Document Type: Article

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