This study explores how Latin American refugees and immigrants perceive their quality of life in New Zealand, highlighting key challenges like discrimination, language barriers, mental health, and isolation. Despite these, many report satisfaction. It also examines New Zealanders’ perceptions and offers recommendations for future research on migrant well-being.
Tag: Refugees
Refugees and mental wellbeing. A call for community approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand
Summary
The purpose of this paper is to examine community based, trauma informed to support refugee mental health and wellbeing, recognising that refugee status is met through forced displacement in which refugees have experience of personal human rights abuses and have survived atrocities in which family and community have been lost.
How to undertake research with refugees: lessons learned from a qualitative health research programme in Southern New Zealand
This paper explores qualitative health research with former refugees in Southern New Zealand. It highlights effective strategies for engaging refugee communities, including building trust, recognising interpreters as cultural brokers, using flexible research methods and ensuring meaningful health-related communication, offering practical guidance for refugee health research.
Refugees and mental wellbeing. A call for community approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand
Summary
The purpose of this paper is to examine community based, trauma informed to support refugee mental health and wellbeing, recognising that refugee status ismet through forced displacement in which refugees have experience of personal human rights abuses and have survived atrocities in which family and community have been lost.
Mental health of African asylum seekers and refugees in Hong Kong: using the social determinants of health framework
Background
Hong Kong is non-signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, and has no systematic domestic policies committed to the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees (ASRs). This creates a tenuous setting for African ASRs there. This study explored how mapped social determinates of health has impacted the mental health and wellbeing of African ASR’s in Hong Kong.
Setting the stage: reviewing current knowledge on the health of New Zealand immigrants-an integrative review
Abstract
The growth of migrant communities continues to rise globally, creating unique and complex health challenges. Literature on immigrant health in New Zealand (NZ) remains scant. This integrative literature review was conducted drawing on peer-reviewed research articles on immigrant health in NZ published between 2012 and 2018.