Refugees in Europe: national overviews from key countries with a special focus on child and adolescent mental health.

Journal: European child & adolescent psychiatry

Volume: 27

Issue: 4

Year of Publication: 2018

Affiliated Institutions:  Centre for Psychiatry, Imperial College London, London, UK. International Organization for Migration Ankara, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Former University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway. University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey. University of Duisburg-Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany. Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Child Protection, Institute of Psychiatry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Klostergata , , Trondheim, Norway. norbert.skokauskas@ntnu.no.

Abstract summary 

Many European countries are becoming multicultural at a previously unseen rate. The number of immigrants including refugees has considerably increased since 2008, and especially after the beginning of the war in Syria. In 2015, 88,300 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in the Member States of the European Union (EU) and most came from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea. As a reaction to increased immigration, governments in many countries including Germany, Sweden and Norway implemented more restrictive immigration policy. A requirement for all countries, however, is the protection and welfare provision for all arriving children, regardless of their nationality, ensured by international and national legal frameworks. This paper provides an overview of the post 2015 immigration crisis in key European countries with a special focus on current demographics, refugee children, mental health studies, policies and practical support available for refugees.

Authors & Co-authors:  Hodes Vasquez Anagnostopoulos Triantafyllou Abdelhady Weiss Koposov Cuhadaroglu Hebebrand Skokauskas

Study Outcome 

Source Link: Visit source

Statistics
Citations :  Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2006 May;41(5):400-8
Authors :  10
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1007/s00787-017-1094-8
SSN : 1435-165X
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Adolescent
Other Terms
Study Design
Study Approach
Country of Study
Mali
Publication Country
Germany