Consistent evidence documents the negative impacts of family separation on refugee mental health and concerns for welfare distant members desire to reunite with as priorities refugees postmigration. Less is known about refugees' emic perspectives their experiences separation. Using mixed methods data from a community-based intervention study, we found that was major source distress it experienced in range ways: fear still harm's way, feeling helplessness, cultural disruption, greatest since...

Refugees resettled in the United States have disproportionately high rates of psychological distress. Research has demonstrated roles postmigration stressors, including lack meaningful social roles, poverty, unemployment, environmental mastery, discrimination, limited English proficiency, and isolation. We report a multimethod, within-group longitudinal pilot study involving adaptation for African refugees community-based advocacy learning intervention to address stressors. found be...

As part of a community/university collaborative effort to promote the mental health and well-being Diné (Navajo) youth, we explored relevance addressing historical trauma current structural stressors, building on individual community strengths through healing social transformation at multiple levels. Qualitative analyses 74 ethnographic interviews with 37 parents, grandparents suggested that focus as conceptual frame for behavioral inequities, understood within context resilience survival,...

There is an urgent need to eliminate mental health disparities experienced by American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). Service providers researchers often address these focusing on low rates of participation in Western services. In part, this reflects limited understandings the sociopolitical historical context AI/AN problems. Furthermore, emphasis fails recognize importance emic locally resonant coping strategies, healing, treatment. article, we describe (a) a study designed gaps, (b)...

Large scale databases are critical for helping scientists decipher long-term patterns in human evolution. This paper describes the conception and development of such a research database illustrates how big data can be harnessed to formulate new ideas about past. The Role Culture Early Expansions Humans (ROCEEH) is transdisciplinary center whose aim study origins culture multifaceted aspects expansions across Africa Eurasia over last three million years. To support its research, ROCEEH team...

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a long-standing and important design for conducting rigorous tests of the effectiveness health interventions. However, many questions have been raised about external validity RCTs, their utility in explicating mechanisms intervention participants' experiences, feasibility acceptability. In current mixed-methods study, academic community partners developed implemented an RCT to test collaboratively community-based advocacy, learning, social support...

Highlights Multilevel strengths‐based intervention decreases refugee distress and improves protective factors. Holistic focus on psychological, material, social, educational, cultural needs is effective. High recruitment/retention rates support importance of non‐stigmatizing universal interventions. Refugee Well‐being Project (RWP) reaches refugees unlikely to access formal mental health services. RWP circumvents typical barriers services (stigma, trust, linguistic/cultural appropriateness).

Abstract Structural inequities impacting immigrant health in the United States were intensified during two recent time periods—the anti‐immigrant socio‐political context of 2017–2021 and COVID‐19 pandemic beginning 2020. Our community‐university research team adapted implemented a community‐based mental intervention with Latinx immigrants these periods, which allowed us to reflect on role our participatory (CBPR) partnership addressing disparate impacts events immigrants. We documented...

The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those years, vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status India Nepal as reminder to themselves world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation they are committed returning someday. In 1990s, U.S. Congress passed legislation allowed 1,000 families immigrate United States; decade later total population includes some 10,000 Tibetans. Not only...

Culturally and contextually valid measurement of psychological distress is critical, given the increasing numbers forcibly displaced people transnational migration. This study replicates an inductive process that elicited culturally specific expressions, understandings, idioms among Afghans to develop measures for Great Lakes Africans Iraqis expands this methodology include a focus on contexts refugees resettled in United States. To create measures, we adapted Miller et al.'s (2006) model

The papers here examine the global circulation of both ideologies and practices that underlie notion "childhood," as well or migration children themselves. We ask what are implications constructions childhood, how does state involve itself in these processes? Specifically, look at childhood light Bock, Gaskins, Lancy (2008:4) term "disruptive experiences." Collectively, experiences Romanian street Paris (Terrio), trafficked U.S. (Uehling), unborn recently born African asylum seekers Ireland...

The present research aimed to describe perceptions and behaviours around the consumption of water sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) by youths.

ABSTRACT The Tibetan population in the United States has increased significantly over last decade. passage of 1990 Immigration Act instituted first large‐scale immigration Tibetans from South Asia to States. are adopting US citizenship, and encouraged do so by exile government on grounds that gaining a political voice enables be “ambassadors” for their lost homeland. In contrast, India have primarily remained stateless, foregoing practical benefits remaining de facto refugees. This paper...

Immigration is at the forefront of national, state, and local policy struggles in United States, Latinx/@ immigrants have experienced increased deportations, detention, individual threats. A mobilities perspective allows analysis to extend our view migration beyond frameworks confined pre- postmigration, examining trajectories social inclusion exclusion that are influenced by multiple factors receiving country. The Immigrant Well-being Project, a community-based participatory research...

Distribution of power and resources greatly impacts the mental health individuals communities. Thus, to reduce disparities, it is imperative address these social determinants through change. Engaging in change efforts requires people critically engage with present conditions on personal, local, national, global levels develop knowledge, capacity, experience envisioning creating more equitable conditions. This critical engagement can be fostered a process transformative learning. In this...

Conflicts around the world have resulted in a record high number of refugees. Family separation is critical factor that impacts refugee mental health. Thus, it important to explore refugees' ability maintain contact with family members across globe and ways which they attempt do so. It increasingly common for refugees use information communication technologies (ICTs), include mobile phones, internet, social media sites, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, these purposes.The aim this...

The NIMH-funded Multilevel Community-Based Mental Health Intervention to Address Structural Inequities and Adverse Disparate Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic on Latinx Immigrants African Refugees study aims advance the science multilevel interventions reduce disparate, adverse mental health, behavioral, socioeconomic consequences pandemic that are a result complex interactions between underlying structural inequities barriers health care. tests three nested levels intervention: 1) an...

The U.S. war with Iraq led to the displacement of millions Iraqis, many whom have resettled in United States as refugees. We explore challenges Iraqi families face after resettlement, a particular focus on agency refugees and challenges/opportunities familial social reproduction transnational context. conducted 181 qualitative interviews 38 Iraqis (11 youth, 27 adults) 5 service providers. Our findings highlight importance exploring refugee illuminate how interplay between structure contexts...

Background: A tri-ethnic rural community with limited resources and a university Prevention Research Center (PRC) developed partnership to promote evidence-based physical activity.

After years of emphasis on pre-migration trauma as the major determinant refugee mental health, researchers have begun to explore effects post-migration stressors refugees' distress. However, few studies brought together emic understandings economic their health with quantitative datasets further salience stress processes an explanatory mechanism. In qualitative interviews, 40% 290 recently resettled adult refugees noted that were a source distress and described pathways through which these...