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Exploring Syrian Refugees' Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework

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dc.creator Moayerian, Neda
dc.creator Stephenson, Max O. Jr.
dc.creator Abu Karaki, Muddather
dc.creator Abbadi, Renad
dc.date 2023-02-10T14:42:06Z
dc.date 2023-02-10T14:42:06Z
dc.date 2023-01-22
dc.date 2023-02-10T14:28:24Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:52:31Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:52:31Z
dc.identifier Moayerian, N.; Stephenson, M., Jr.; Abu Karaki, M.; Abbadi, R. Exploring Syrian Refugees' Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20, 2031.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/113773
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032031
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281628
dc.description Even after arrival in new countries, refugees may be exposed to traumatic events. This state is exacerbated by contextual stressors, including the resettlement process, asylum proceedings and threats of deportation. This paper is rooted in a trauma-informed framework. We interviewed 16 male Syrian refugee migrant workers employed on a Jordanian farm during crop harvesting season to explore the quality and level of medical care and mental health services they received in light of the framework’s principal dimensions (e.g., safety, trust, intersectionality). We found that this vulnerable group of individuals is living a marginal and marginalized existence and depends on the goodwill of the growers for whom they work to treat them with a modicum of dignity and respect. Second, their itinerancy makes it difficult for this population to take advantage of available medical and mental health services at the nation’s major refugee camps. Finally, our interlocutors preferred their current lives, as isolating and limiting as they are, as superior to full-time residence in the camps, because they perceive their present way of life as according a measure of dignity, self-direction and autonomy they could not enjoy in the camps.
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dc.language en
dc.publisher MDPI
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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dc.title Exploring Syrian Refugees' Access to Medical and Social Support Services Using a Trauma-Informed Analytic Framework
dc.title International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.type Article - Refereed
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