Identities in transition: living as an asylum seeker

Nursing of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Families: An Integrative Review

‘Too Prosperous?’ Indonesian Responses to Australian Asylum-seeker Policies

Foreign citizens without legal documents or awaiting deportation are held in the Karantina Imigrasi or Immigration Quarantine supposedly a place of temporary detention. There is, however, no effective time limit on detention and no working formal method of case review. There is also a lack of clear and routinely-followed guidelines as to how asylum-seekers should be dealt with. Indonesia has no...

Delayed diagnosis of severe tuberculous spondylodiscitis in an asylum seeker; patient or doctors delay?

The still increasing global migration affects the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in European countries. We present the case of an asylum seeker from a TB high-endemic country, who presented with severe TB spondylodiscitis and need for emergency surgery. The patient had a history of recurrent sterile axillary and perianal abscesses for years, but TB was never properly ruled out. The patient u...

Frequent relocations between asylum-seeker centres are associated with mental distress in asylum-seeking children: a longitudinal medical record study.

BACKGROUND There are concerns about negative effects of relocations between asylum-seeker centres on the mental health of asylum-seeking children. However, empirical evidence comes from cross-sectional studies only. In this longitudinal medical record study, we aimed to assess: (i) whether relocations during the asylum process are associated with the incidence of newly recorded mental distress ...

Nursing in asylum seeker detention in Australia: care, rights and witnessing.

The system of asylum seeker detention in Australia is one in which those seeking refuge are stripped of many of their rights, including the right to health. This presents serious ethical problems for healthcare providers working within this system. In this article we describe asylum seeker detention and analyse the role of nurses. We discuss how far an "ethics of care" and witnessing the suffer...