Know thy Neighbour: Residential Integration and Social Bridging among Refugee Settlers in Greater Brisbane

Hebbani, Aparna; Colic-Peisker, Val; MacKinnon, Mairead

doi:10.1093/jrs/fex016

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“…The other key social element of housing that people highlighted was that of interactions with neighbours, which can have an important effect on the extent to which people newly arrived in a country feel welcomed [ 96 ]. In our study, participants highlighted that living in neighbourhoods where they were able to develop positive social connections was a key pathway to good health outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the Relationship between Housing and Health for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Australia: A Qualitative Study

Ziersch

Walsh

Due

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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Housing is an important social determinant of health; however, little is known about the impact of housing experiences on health and wellbeing for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds. In this paper, we outline a qualitative component of a study in South Australia examining these links. Specifically, interviews were conducted with 50 refugees and asylum seekers who were purposively sampled according to gender, continent and visa status, from a broader survey. Interviews were analysed thematically. The results indicated that housing was of central importance to health and wellbeing and impacted on health through a range of pathways including affordability, the suitability of housing in relation to physical aspects such as condition and layout, and social aspects such as safety and belonging and issues around security of tenure. Asylum seekers in particular reported that living in housing in poor condition negatively affected their health. Our research reinforces the importance of housing for both the physical and mental health for asylum seekers and refugees living in resettlement countries. Improving housing quality, affordability and tenure security all have the potential to lead to more positive health outcomes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Relationship between Housing and Health for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Australia: A Qualitative Study

Ziersch

Walsh

Due

et al. 2017

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“…Refugee's Mobility Similarity (MS). Refugees' integration may result in sharing the same urban space at the same time with the host community [47] [48]. In order to measure such phenomenon by using call data we can collect the time and locations of each call occurred during the day to model the daily users' mobility.…”

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Assessing Refugees’ Integration via Spatio-Temporal Similarities of Mobility and Calling Behaviors

Alfeo

Cimino

Lepri

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.

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In Turkey the increasing tension, due to the presence of 3.4 million Syrian refugees, demands the formulation of effective integration policies. Moreover, their design requires tools aimed at understanding the integration of refugees despite the complexity of this phenomenon.In this work, we propose a set of metrics aimed at providing insights and assessing the integration of Syrians refugees, by analyzing a real-world Call Details Records (CDRs) dataset including calls from refugees and locals in Turkey throughout 2017. Specifically, we exploit the similarity between refugees' and locals' spatial and temporal behaviors, in terms of communication and mobility in order to assess integration dynamics.Together with the already known methods for data analysis, we use a novel computational approach to analyze spatiotemporal patterns: Computational Stigmergy, a bio-inspired scalar and temporal aggregation of samples. Computational Stigmergy associates each sample to a virtual pheromone deposit (mark). Marks in spatiotemporal proximity are aggregated into functional structures called trails, which summarize the spatiotemporal patterns in data and allows computing the similarity between different patterns.According to our results, collective mobility and behavioral similarity with locals have great potential as measures of integration, since they are: (i) correlated with the amount of interaction with locals; (ii) an effective proxy for refugee's economic capacity, thus refugee's potential employment; and (iii) able to capture events that may disrupt the integration phenomena, such as social tensions.

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“…Refugees, resettlement and transnationalism I iterate here that there is little to no research to review regarding death and dying, especially in contemporary Karen communities. Similarly, little research regarding the Brisbane Karen community is available besides my own and colleagues' work (Bird, 2013;Bird et al, 2016aBird et al, , 2016b or, more generally, my colleagues' work with people from Burma in Brisbane (Hebbani et al, 2017;Schweitzer et al, 2011;Van Wyk et al, 2012). There is more research regarding Karen refugees elsewhere (e.g.…”

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Death and dying in a Karen refugee community: An overlooked challenge in the resettlement process

Bird

2018

Ethnography

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This paper explores death and dying in a settling refugee community. I use ethnographic description to explore an overlooked practical challenge of resettlement – funerals. The focus of research is the Brisbane Karen community, from Burma and/or Thai-Burma border camps. Death and dying as a theme of resettlement research is inadequate. Yet we ought to consider death and dying as a settlement challenge, just as we consider language, employment, or housing (for example). Death and dying traverses the practical challenges of settlement, to deeper ontological questions associated with spiritual existence, rituals and community bonding. The paper provides practical insights into the basic boundaries of Australian funeral practice, which can speak to other minority groups practising burial rites that depart from the mainstream. It comments on how those boundaries can bump up against cultural practice brought from elsewhere. It also demonstrates transnationalism in the Brisbane Karen community.

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Know thy Neighbour: Residential Integration and Social Bridging among Refugee Settlers in Greater Brisbane

Cited by 36 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring the Relationship between Housing and Health for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Australia: A Qualitative Study

Exploring the Relationship between Housing and Health for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Australia: A Qualitative Study

Assessing Refugees’ Integration via Spatio-Temporal Similarities of Mobility and Calling Behaviors

Death and dying in a Karen refugee community: An overlooked challenge in the resettlement process

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