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A phenomenological study of the resettlement experiences and mental health needs of Somali Bantu refugee women.

Author: Katherine W. Williams
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Category : Bantu-speaking peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Sandra Grady
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299303241
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Explores how teens from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest, negotiating two sets of cultural expectations, those of the resettled Somali Bantu community and those of the surrounding US culture.

Author: Ellen Cole
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135837678
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees’experiences as women. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health begins to fill this paucity of information on female refugees’experiences. A book of immediate interest, Refugee Women and Their Mental Health focuses on understanding the plight of women refugees around the world, with an emphasis on mental health. The book adds successful and innovative treatment and recovery models for these women survivors. Some of the chapters are written by women who are therapists/psychologists now and who have been refugees themselves. This adds additional insight into the plight and resulting mental health problems of refugee women. The chapters cover a vast range of topics: torture and sexual abuse as refugees/victims of state violence elderly women refugees immigration law and women refugees first-person narratives the transformation of identity successful creative treatment programs It becomes clear that women refugees from all over the world under different political events and circumstances share common values and have similar mental health needs. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health explores processes of recovery from the traumas experienced by these women and offers a variety of models for the application of feminist theory to the plight of women refugees. Experienced therapists of women and those in training to be therapists will want to read this book. The topics of refugee women rarely comes up in training programs, so the information in this book is vital for therapists, policy makers, and other service providers and professors of psychology of women, immigration and social work issues, and women and mental health issues.

Author: Catherine Besteman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374722
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia’s civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate coresidence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman’s account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes.

Author: Betty Anne Lininger
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ABSTRACT: My study explored the post migration experience of Somali female refugees located in Atlanta, Georgia. Somali refugees began arriving in the United States since a civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991 and during the early and mid 2000s Somalis became the largest refugee group entering the US. Because women make up nearly 50% of this incoming group, and because gender is an important factor in how migration and resettlement are experienced, this paper examines the post migration experience from a woman's perspective. The Somali community in Atlanta, Georgia is used as case study site because it is one of the oldest Somali communities in America and has a relatively large and stable Somali population. My study provides a comprehensive overview of basically three components of the post migration experience of fiftyeight Somali women. Data were gained through the use of a questionnaire survey, and both qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied. First the initial migration history of the respondents was explored. Second their adaptation and adjustment strategies as well as spatial preferences in the United States were examined. The third point of analysis contrasts the post migration experience of Somali Bantu respondents, a sub-ethnic group, with their mainstream Somali counterparts.

Author: Katherine Clare Jorgenson
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Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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The conflict in Somali has resulted in millions of refugees and internally displaced persons for more than three decades. More than 100,000 Somali refugees have been resettled in the United States, striking a need for additional research about mental health needs and pre-migration experiences that led to resettlement. The purpose of this study was to learn more about traumatic experiences incurred pre-migration for Somali refugees, the impact on the process of acculturation following resettlement, and the relationship between pre migration trauma, acculturation, and mental health. It was hypothesized that acculturation would mediate the relationship between pre-migration trauma and mental health symptoms. The results partially supported this hypothesis, dependent upon the dimension of acculturation included in the path analysis. Unexpected findings occurred with regard to unique relationships between the various acculturation dimensions in the model, traumatic experiences, mental health symptoms, and time in the United States. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

Author: Lisa Valiquet
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Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Martha Brownfield Baird
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Languages : en
Pages : 428

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The prolonged civil-war and famine in the African nation of Sudan has displaced millions over the last two decades, many of these are women and children. Refugee women who are resettled to the US with their children must make profound adjustments to learn how to live in the American society and culture. Very little is understood about the factors and conditions that affect the health of immigrant and refugee populations who resettle to a host country. This ethnographic study investigates the influences to health and well-being in 10 refugee women from the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan who were resettled with their children to a Midwestern city in the United States (US). The in-depth interviews and participant observation that occurred over the one-year period of the study resulted in an interpretive theory of Well-Being in Refugee Women Experiencing Cultural Transition. Well-being in Dinka mothers is understood through the relationships between three major themes: Liminality: Living Between Two Cultures, Standing for Myself, and Hope for the Future. Liminality: Living Between Two Cultures describes how the women struggled to maintain a delicate balance between their traditional Dinka culture and the new American culture. The theme of Standing for Myself addresses how learning new skills and taking on new roles in the US, led to transformation of the refugee women. The third theme of Hope for the Future emphasizes the Dinka cultural values of communality and religious convictions that gave the women hope for a better future for their families and countrymen. The middle-range theory of transitions was used as a theoretical framework to guide the investigation of well-being of the refugee women and their families during resettlement. The study extends of the theory of transitions to refugee women from southern Sudan by developing a theoretical explanation for how refugee Dinka women attain well-being during transition. The results of this study strongly indicate that c̀ultural transition' be added as a distinct type of transition significant to understand the health needs of refugee women. The knowledge from this study will lead to the development of culturally competent interventions for resettled refugee families.