Psychological and Organizational Aspects of Migration of a Special Group of Refugees: The Example of the Special Quota Project Baden-Wuerttemberg with Yazidi Women and Children in Freiburg

Hillebrecht, Jennifer; Zeiss, T.; Bengel, Jürgen

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“…The German Special Quota Program “Sonderkontingent Baden-Württemberg (SK BaWü)—Vulnerable Women and Children from Northern Iraq” offered 1100 Yezidi women in 2015 from Northern Iraq, such as Nadia Murad, the opportunity to come to Germany for their security and psychological treatment [66]. As inclusion criteria for participating, the project manager Prof. Kizilhan describes that the Yezidi women from the area of Sinjar in Northern Iraq were victims of rape and held in captivity for at least three months by the so-called “Islamic State”.…”

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“…The women chosen to join this program in Germany showed a high prevalence of mental disorders in the first examination carried out in Northern Iraq: 78.1 were diagnosed with PTSD, 63.0% with depression, and 2.7% with an adjustment disorder [66]. In Germany, these women showed more symptoms of adjustment disorder rather than classic PTSD [68].…”

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“…A phase of decompensation with mourning and trauma processing often only begins when everyday life has become established and the feeling of security increases. This delayed course was observed in many cases among the Yezidi women, although some of them had shown strong symptoms since their arrival [66].…”

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“…In 2015 and 2016, 1100 women, most of them Yezidi, were sent to a special quota project in Germany for trauma therapy and rehabilitation. While on the one hand such initiatives can offer required treatment possibilities [66], it must not be forgotten that those affected in the diaspora, on the other hand, remain attached to, and are empowered by, a “home” culture of fundamental values like propriety and religion [80].…”

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Narrative Review: The (Mental) Health Consequences of the Northern Iraq Offensive of ISIS in 2014 for Female Yezidis

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The Yezidis who represent a religious minority living in Northern Iraq were particularly affected by the persecution by ISIS (Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, syn.: ISIL—Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant) that gained power after 2013. This paper gives an overview of the events and the mental health consequences on the Yezidi community as well as associated influences on affected female Yezidis. Based on a systematic literature search, the aspects of “Persecution by ISIS and actual situation of the Yezidi community”, “Gender-specific aspects of the persecution and its consequences”, “Mental health of the affected women”, and “Cultural–historical and religious context” are worked out. Research indicates a high burden of health strain and mental health problems in the surviving Yezidi women, especially post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) and depression. Concerning transgenerational trauma, the recent genocide has revived past experiences in the history of the community. Like the narrow cultural and religious rules of the community, this can be both a resource and a burden. The actual extent of the attacks is neither predictable for the affected individuals nor for the community, consequences could also be passed onto descendants. Long-term care and support of the affected persons, their descendants, and the Yezidi community seems indispensable.

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“…Refugees: Post Traumatic Stress, and Crime -Experiences from Germany experiences on the way to Europe/Germany (Hillebrecht, Zeiss, & Bengel, 2018;Knipper & Bilgin, 2009). The European Commission (2004; see also Council of Europe, 2005;Ludwig, 2016) points out that stressful experiences during their flight are often not given enough attention (Bundes Psychotherapeuten Kammer, 2015).…”

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Refugees: Post Traumatic Stress, and Crime Experiences from Germany

Kury¹

2019

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The immigration of refugees since 2014, especially from North African Countries has the last year an increasing critical political discussion in the population, also in Germany, the goal of many migrants. While on the background of political signals at the beginning of the movement refugees were welcome by the majority of the population, meanwhile criticism is more and more expressed in the media and political discussion. In many European Countries right wing parties were established, also in Germany (Alternative für Deutschland-AfD). The last vote for the European Parliament shows for Germany an increasing acceptance of this party, especially in Eastern Germany, the former German Democratic Republic. Very often the public is not very well informed by the media. On one side there are reports of an increasing crime rate, without differenciating the background of, on the other side the German industry needs the immigrants, there are many open positions for workers. The chapter gives a short overview about the discussion about the topic in Germany.

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Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany

Masadeh

Pries

2021

Journal of Refugee Studies

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Border crossing migration always includes (re-)negotiation of world views, home and the meaning of arrival. This negotiation of arrival takes place within the broader societal contexts of the countries of origin and of arrival but is also a mediation with oneself and with social networks. This holds true especially for refugees and émigrés who have to leave their habitual places of living involuntarily. This paper examines the lives of Yazidi women, who survived captivity and sexual enslavement by the self-declared Islamic State and subsequently decided to resettle from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to Germany. First, the study addresses the complex processes of managing and re-establishing social belongings with a sociological concept of arrival and outlines some lessons from historical forced migration research. It then presents the findings and analysis of five face-to-face narrative interviews with Yazidi survivors. What similarities and differences exist between these individuals and historical cases of forced migrants and their arrival? Are there different patterns of coping with their individual and collective experiences and of developing new life projects? Our findings show how Yazidi émigrés continue to experience and negotiate the complexities of migration between weak and strong belonging to social spaces of origin and of arrival.

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Psychological and Organizational Aspects of Migration of a Special Group of Refugees: The Example of the Special Quota Project Baden-Wuerttemberg with Yazidi Women and Children in Freiburg

Cited by 4 publications

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Narrative Review: The (Mental) Health Consequences of the Northern Iraq Offensive of ISIS in 2014 for Female Yezidis

Narrative Review: The (Mental) Health Consequences of the Northern Iraq Offensive of ISIS in 2014 for Female Yezidis

Refugees: Post Traumatic Stress, and Crime Experiences from Germany

Similar History and Different Strategies of ‘Arrival’: Female Yazidi Survivors of the Islamic State in Germany

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