Refugee community organisations and dispersal

Griffiths, David; Sigona, Nando; Zetter, Roger

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“…Beginning in 1978 and escalating in the 1990s, Somalia has been embroiled in clan-based civil war 38. Ongoing intraclan conflict has prevented efforts to install a stable government 39. Fleeing this warfare, many Somali people migrated to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia.…”

Section: Background On Somali Migration and Resettlementmentioning

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Adaptive frameworks of chronic pain: daily remakings of pain and care at a Somali refugee women’s health centre

Campeau

2018

Med Humanities

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Pain is an intensely subjective experience and one that is difficult for healthcare professionals to treat. Chronic pain, often diffuse, cyclical and involving many systems of the body, is often not well treated in a medical system that relies on discrete symptoms, identifiable causes, external pathogens and physician specialisation. Pain has its own problems specific to Somali diaspora populations, where chronic pain is prevalent but often undertreated, and where Somali patients face barriers of access to medicine. This study, conducted in partnership with a Somali women's health centre, seeks to understand Somali women's use of informal and formal networks of healthcare. Drawing from qualitative interviews with Somali, refugee women, this article identifies four emerging frameworks through which participants experience chronic pain: (1) pain as a symptom of exile; (2) pain and the strength to bear pain as issues of faith; (3) medicine as powerful, curative and fluid; (4) medical discrimination and exclusion.

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Adaptive frameworks of chronic pain: daily remakings of pain and care at a Somali refugee women’s health centre

Campeau

2018

Med Humanities

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“…In addition to the qualitative study by Griffiths, Sigona, and Zetter () on the role of RCOs and social capital among refugee communities in the UK, we drew on two Canadian studies for our research design: Suzuki's () research on social capital among Burmese refugee communities in Canada, and Anucha, Dlamini, Yan, and Smylie's () study on social capital within the context of gender, immigrant status, and race.…”

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“…Our understanding of how RCOs develop is framed by the RCO paradigm (Griffiths et al., ; Zetter & Pearl, ). In their research carried out in the UK, Griffiths et al.…”

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Refugee community organizations inCanada: From the margins to the mainstream? A challenge and opportunity for social workers

2014

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Various waves of asylum seekers and resettled refugees arriving in Canada since the 1980s reflect the eruption of war and ethnic conflicts in parts of Africa, Central America, and South East Asia. Contrary to long‐established immigrant communities such as the Greeks, Italians, and Portuguese, these newcomers have had to fend for themselves and develop their own support networks, leading to new forms of organizing and to the formation of refugee community organizations (RCOs). This article discusses the findings of a 2008–2011 study on RCOs in Canada, specifically in Montréal and Winnipeg. The objective of the study was to understand the context in which RCOs have developed, the populations they serve, and the role they play in their ethnic communities. Working within the RCO paradigm, we analyze the creation of these organizations, contrast findings with research done in the UK, and raise issues for social work practice. Key Practitioner Message: ● Innovative research in Canada documenting refugee community organizations gives fresh insight regarding community organizing practice; ● Documents the situation of asylum seekers and refugees on an individual and a collective basis in terms of needs; ● Focuses on the necessity of building bridges with refugee organizations to bring them into the mainstream.

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“…Putnam, 1993). However, 'social capital' can also be exclusionary (Sen, 1999) and in refugee studies, Griffiths et al (2005) became increasingly critical of the term to describe the social networks of asylum seekers, outlining how networks played a defensive role within a hostile policy environment for refugees. Voutira and Harrell-Bond (1995) seminally challenged the notion that encounters between helpers within the structure of the international humanitarian regime and refugees had any potential for restoring trust given the political economy of aid and inherent inequalities of global protection and containment strategies for refugees.…”

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Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children

Hynes¹

2017

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Abstract:This paper aims to consider the experiences of displaced women and children throughout the experience of displacement and the issue of trust (or mistrust) throughout this journey towards future emplacement. Issues around trust and mistrust in conflict situations and considerations around interpersonal and broader based gender-based violence in politicised contexts are explored. Various stages of displacement are viewed and, through the use of examples, from experiences within refugee camps, reception in host countries and resettlement in countries of asylum insights into the lived experiences of displaced women and children are provided. This paper therefore draws upon research projects and practitioner experience, including research carried out within refugee camps, in the UK on the dispersal of asylum seekers, qualitative research into agency responses to the trafficking of children and young people, plus a scoping study involving qualitative research into non-statutory understandings of trafficking.

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Refugee community organisations and dispersal

Cited by 40 publications

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Adaptive frameworks of chronic pain: daily remakings of pain and care at a Somali refugee women’s health centre

Adaptive frameworks of chronic pain: daily remakings of pain and care at a Somali refugee women’s health centre

Refugee community organizations inCanada: From the margins to the mainstream? A challenge and opportunity for social workers

Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children

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