International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care: Volume 16 Issue 3

The relationship between perceived causes of depression and desire for social distance in Farsi-speaking migrants and refugees from Iran and Afghanistan living in Germany

Mahan Mobashery, Ulrike von Lersner, Kerem Böge, Lukas Fuchs, Georg Schomerus, Miriam Franke, Matthias Claus Angermeyer, Eric Hahn

An increasing number of migrants and refugees seeking asylum in Germany is challenging psychiatrists and psychotherapists in multiple ways. Different cultural belief systems on…

Perceptions of transnational family responsibilities’ effects on subjective health and wellness – voices of Thai immigrant women

Weerati Pongthippat, Gunnel Östlund, Mehrdad Darvishpour, Jureerat Kijsomporn, Lena-Karin Gustafsson

Globalisation provides new opportunities for immigrant women to supply financial benefits transnationally to uphold their families in their home countries. The purpose of this…

Diversity and health strategies for newly resettled refugees

Linda Vikdahl, Göran Ståhle, David Gunnarsson, Fredrik Saboonchi

In general, newly resettled refugees have poorer physical and mental health than native-born Swedes. This indicates that the society must make special efforts to enable refugees…

“I was trying to speak to their human side” coping responses of Belgium’s undocumented migrants to barriers in health-care access

Dirk Lafaut, Gily Coene

Undocumented migrants experience major legal constraints in their health-care access. Little is known on how undocumented migrants cope with these limitations in health-care…

Staff shortages in Swedish elderly care – reflections on gender and diversity politics

Linda Lill

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the labor shortage is described at the national level and how these problematizations correlate to gender and diversity politics. The…

Human rights-based conceptions of deservingness: health and precarity

Sarah Marshall

Ideas of health-related deservingness in theory and practise have largely been attached to humanitarian notions of compassion and care for vulnerable persons, in contrast to…

Well-being through group exercise: immigrant women’s experiences of a low-threshold training program

Nancie Luth-Hanssen, Marit Fougner, Jonas Debesay

Immigrant women show a higher risk of mental health problems and report higher levels of musculoskeletal disorders. Norwegian psychomotor physiotherapy (NPMP) is a body awareness…

Exploring perceptions and attitudes of black Sub-Sahara African (BSSA) migrants towards residential care in England

Mathew Nyashanu, Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda, Fungisai Mushawa, Mandu Stephene Ekpenyong

Since the early 19th century, the UK has seen a decrease in mortality rates and increase in life expectancy. This has increased the number of elderly people being put into…

Adolescents’ representations of close relationships in the context of parental migration: an exploratory study from Ecuador

Elena Monserrath Jerves, Lucia De Haene, Peter Rober, Paul Enzlin

The purpose of this study is to examine the association between parental migration and adolescents’ styles of close relationships with parents, friends and romantic partners.