PIMH: Refugees and asylum seekers

• Fractured childhoods: the separation of families by immigration detention
  The UK Border Agency has a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. This report presents evidence of cases in which the Border Agency has failed to safeguard children when making decisions to detain their p ...
  
  Publisher: Bail for Immigration Detainees (BiD)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Response to The Children’s Society - parliamentary inquiry into asylum support for children and young people
  The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) says that it does not have a particular focus on asylum support for children and young people but that aspects of its work are relevant to this inquiry. In this report it looks at the ...
  
  Publisher: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Seeking asylum in Australia: mental health and human rights of children and families
  This is a report of a lecture by Professor Louise Newman at a seminar organised by the Australian Institute of Family Affairs in March 2012. The lecture explored the effects of detention on asylum seekers, particularly c ...
  
  Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Into the unknown: children’s journeys through the asylum process
  Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are subjected to "a culture of disbelief and suspicion" because of ongoing failings in the system, according to this report. Despite some recent improvements, many of the UK Border A ...
  
  Publisher: The Children's Society
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Psychological distress and mental health service contact of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
  Evidence is emerging that psychological problems, particularly symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, are more prevalent in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) than their accompanied peers. H ...
  
  Publisher: Child: Care, Health and Development
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• No way out, no way in: irregular migrant children and families in the UK - research report
  Thousands of children living in the UK without legal immigration status are at risk of destitution and exploitation because of contradictory rules and regulations, according to this report by the University of Oxford.
  
  Publisher: Centre On Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• War trauma lingers on: associations between maternal posttraumatic stress disorder, parent–child interaction, and child development
  According to the authors, although maternal traumatisation has been proposed as a risk factor for child development, the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. This study analysed the interrelations among maternal po ...
  
  Publisher: Infant Mental Health Journal
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Landing in Dover: the immigration processs undergone by unaccompanied children arriving in Kent
  This new report from the Children’s Commissioner reveals that for a time asylum-seeking children have been routinely sent back to France within 24 hours under a "gentlemen's agreement", contrary to the requirement to saf ...
  
  Publisher: Office of the Children's Commissioner
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors
  The researchers carried out a systematic search and review of individual, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors for mental health in children and adolescents who are forcibly displaced to high-incom ...
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: risk and protective factors
  Children and adolescents who are forcibly displaced represent almost half the world's internally displaced and refugee populations. In this study, the authors carried out a two-part systematic search and review of the ev ...
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Research: Good practice when working with refugee and asylum-seeking children
  Community Care and Community Care Inform examine findings that can be used to support good practice in the field.
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Landing in Kent: the experience of unaccompanied children arriving in the UK
  This report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner on a visit to Millbank Reception and Assessment Centre calls for a review the policy of deporting asylum-seeking children to the first European country they entere ...
  
  Publisher: Children's Commissioner
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Refugee, asylum seeker, immigrant women and postnatal depression: rates and risk factors
  Postnatal depression (PND) is recognised as a common maternal health problem, but little evidence examines PND among refugee, asylum seeker and immigrant women in developed country settings. This review aimed to identify ...
  
  Publisher: Archives of Women's Mental Health
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• The needs and strengths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in Scotland
  Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children seeking refuge in safer parts of the world have a wide range of needs. This paper discusses the main needs of unaccompanied minors drawing upon the views of service providers who wor ...
  
  Publisher: Child & Family Social Work
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Mental health implications of detaining asylum seekers: systematic review
  The aim of this review was to investigate the impact of detention on the mental health of adult, child and adolescent immigration detainees. All of the studies identified, reported high levels of mental health problems ...
  
  Publisher: The British Journal of Psychiatry
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Significant Harm - the effects of administrative detention on the health of children, young people and their families
  This briefing from the Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists and the UK Faculty of Public Health describes the significant harms to the phys ...
  
  Publisher: QARN
  Published Date: 2009