Review by Edith Montgomery accepted for public defence
Review by Edith Montgomery accepted by The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of
Copenhagen, for public defence: Trauma, Exile and Mental Health in Young Refugees
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acps.2011.124.issue-s440/issuetoc
New Anthology on Asylum-seeking Children in Denmark
Please read the presentation about a new anthology concerning asylum-seeking children in Denmark called Asylsøgende børn i Danmark – en barndom i undtagelsestilstand. The anthology was edited by Kathrine Vitus og Signe Smith Nielsen.
Assessing age or assessing need – a literature review of age assessment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Bachelor thesis autumn 2010
Assessing age or assessing need – a literature review of age assessment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Bachelor thesis autumn 2010 please read here
Gothenburg Meeting December 2-3, 2010. Theme: Unaccompanied minors
Location: The Nordic School of Public Health, Nya Varvet, Gothenburg, Lecture room: ISLAND
- Notes from the meeting taken by secretary Cajsa Malmström.
- Emad Al-Rozzi’s presentation: ”Care in Transition for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children at Care Centers in Norway: Basic Reflections”.
- Maria Brendler –Lindqvist’s presentation: ”Assessing age or assessing needs –age assessment of unaccompanied refugee children in medical literature”.
- Sofie Haug Changezi’s presentaion: ”Unaccompanied refugee youth resettling: The challenges on entering Norwegian secondary school”.
- Heaven Crawley’s presentation ”When is a child not a child? Asylum, age disputes and the process of age assessment”.
- Ravi Kohli’s presentation: ”Safety, belonging and success in the lives of unaccompanied asylum seeking children”.
- Karoline B. Seglem’s presentation: ”Unaccompanied minors after resettlement: Reconstruction of social network and social support”.
- Marianne Vervliet’s presentation: ”Afghan unaccompanied refugee minors in Belgium. Expectations, agency and psychosocial wellbeing”.
- Charles Watters’ presentation: ”Unaccompanied Minors: International Challenges, Local Solutions”.
Contact persons:
anders.hjern@chess.su.se
Program for the meeting, please read here new version November 29
Network Meeting Copenhagen 3-4 June 2010, Theme: Longitudinal Studies on Refugee Children
Long-term adaptation of refugee children in Sweden; A 15-25 year follow-up
Please read Anders Hjern’s presentation
Children or asylum children in Norway and Denmark in discourse, politics and practices
Please read Kathrine Vitus
Follow-up studies of refugee children – A literature review
Please read Follow-up studies 2010 Edith Montgomery
Please read Cécile Rousseau’s notes from Copenhagen meeting
Notes from the meeting in Copenhagen on 3 -4 June 2010: Themes Follow-up studies
Migration and Public Health Anders Hjern
English translation of chapter from Swedish National Public Health Report 2009. Published by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
For a Swedish version: see http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/publikationer2009/2009-126-71 (chapter 13)
”Migration and Public Health” by Anders Hjern
Migration and Public Health Anders Hjern English translation of chapter from Swedish National Public Health Report 2009. Published by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
For a Swedish version: see http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/publikationer2009/2009-126-71 (chapter 13)
Recent publication by Ketil Eide and Tuva Broch
Recent publication by network member Ketil Eide and Tuva Broch:
Eide,K. og Broch,T. (2010): Enslige mindreårige flyktninger. Kunnskapsstatus og forskningsmessige utfordringer. Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse (RBUP), Helseregion Øst og Sør. Anbefaling gitt til BLD desember 2009.
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