Migration experiences, employment status and psychological distress among Somali immigrants: a mixed-method international study
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Migration experiences, employment status and psychological distress among Somali immigrants: a mixed-method international study
BACKGROUND The discourse about mental health problems among migrants and refugees tends to focus on adverse pre-migration experiences; there is less investigation of the environmental conditions in which refugee migrants live, and the contrasts between these situations in different countries. This cross-national study of two samples of Somali refugees living in London (UK) and Minneapolis, Minn...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-749