Koronabibliotek

What does COVID-19 distract us from? A migration studies perspective on the inequities of attention

This article explores that throughout 2020, movements for solidarity raised their denunciations of the ongoing and constructed border violence globally. Today, amidst the ideological fog of COVID-19 hysteria, such issues are deafening in their absence. Th...

Venezuelan migrants in Colombia: COVID-19 and mental health

Venezuelan migrants in Colombia are experiencing psychological stressors stemming from political turmoil, poverty, displacement, exploitation, and the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 5 million people have departed Venezuela since 2015.2 The largest subgroup,...

Unspoken inequality: How COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa

An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15-64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and practical xenophobia has driven asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in SA to abject poverty and misery. The Corona...

Unconventional Answers to Unprecedented Challenges: The Swedish Experience During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Since its early stages, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed immense challenges in meeting the public health and healthcare and social care needs of migrants. In line with other reports from United Kingdom and United States, data fro...

The unheard and forgotten warriors of pandemic in india

ABSTRACT This narrative tells the story of two groups: Aanganwadi Group and the Nigrani Group. The former consists of women working under the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme), a flagship program of the Government of India. The latter consists of...

The Effects of Covid-19 Pandemic on Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Case of Kilis

The objective of this study; is to find out the sensitivity, the concern that are created by the Covid-19 pandemic on the Syrian refugees, who live in Kilis province of Turkey and have different life standards and status and to find out their possibilitie...

Sex workers must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 response

Sex workers are among the most marginalised groups. Globally, most direct sex work has largely ceased as a result of physical distancing and lockdown measures put in place to halt transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2...

Refugees in Sweden During the Covid-19 Pandemic—The Need for a New Perspective on Health and Integration

Refugees are already a vulnerable group in society and are in a stressful situation due to their often uncertain legal status in seeking asylum and integration in the new society after migration. Refugees are, in general, at greater risk of poor health ou...

Refugee and migrant health in the COVID-19 response

Refugees and migrants must be included in national public health systems, with no risk of financial or legal consequences for them. This approach is of the utmost importance, as there can be no public health without refugee and migrant health...

Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Recently Resettled Refugee Populations in the United States and Canada: Perspectives of Refugee Healthcare Providers

Recently resettled refugee populations may be at greater risk for exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a virus that causes coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), and face unique challenges in following recommendations to protect...

Policy Brief: Covid-19 and the Need for action on Mental Health

Pandemi og krisepsykologi : Psykososiale utfordringer og støttetiltak

Koronapandemien har vist oss at inngripende smittetiltak og nedstenginger av samfunn har store psykososiale konsekvenser. Denne boken gir en praksisnær beskrivelse av aktuelle psykososiale utfordringer og tilhørende støttetiltak under en pandemi. Boken er...

Nye borgere i et nedstengt Norge

Refleksjoner fra ansatte i et kommunalt botilbud som har hatt ansvar for å ivareta enslige mindreårige flyktninger gjennom en pandemi...

Negative impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health service access and follow-up adherence for immigrants and individuals in socio-economic difficulties

OBJECTIVES: Lockdown measures in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can have serious mental health effects on the population, especially in vulnerable groups, such as those living in poor socio-economic conditions, those who are ...

Migrant Students' Sense of Belonging and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for Educational Inclusion

This article investigates school belonging among migrant students and how this changed during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Drawing on quantitative data gathered from 751 migrant students in secondary schools in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland,...

Mental health support in Jordan for the general population and for the refugees in the Zaatari camp during the period of COVID-19 lockdown

We have presented an overview about the mental health situation in Jordan during the coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) in general, and we presented the situation of mental health and the provided support for Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp. (PsycInfo Databa...

Letter to the Editor: The economic and mental health costs of COVID-19 to immigrants

This article discusses the economic and mental health costs of COVID-19 to immigrants. The authors argue that although the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is not a nationality based disease, it does affect locals and immigrants differently when it comes to e...

Kunnskapsoppsummeringer om korona

Kunnskapsoppdateringer fra NKVTS i forbidelse med korona...

‘It’s difficult to help when I am not sitting next to them’: How COVID-19 school closures interrupted teachers’ care for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners in Denmark

Teachers play a critical role in providing social and emotional support for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners. Such care ordinarily takes place in the classroom, raising questions about the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 school closures on their car...

Impact of new traumatic or stressful life events on pre-existing PTSD in traumatized refugees: Results of a longitudinal study

BACKGROUND: A significant proportion of trauma survivors experience an additional critical life event in the aftermath. These renewed experiences of traumatic and stressful life events may lead to an increase in trauma-related mental health symptoms. METH...