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- Title
Refugees in Europe: national overviews from key countries with a special focus on child and adolescent mental health.
- Authors
Hodes, Matthew; Vasquez, Melisa Mendoza; Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris; Triantafyllou, Kalliopi; Abdelhady, Dalia; Weiss, Karin; Koposov, Roman; Cuhadaroglu, Fusun; Hebebrand, Johannes; Skokauskas, Norbert
- Abstract
Many European countries are becoming multicultural at a previously unseen rate. The number of immigrants including refugees has considerably increased since 2008, and especially after the beginning of the war in Syria. In 2015, 88,300 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in the Member States of the European Union (EU) and most came from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea. As a reaction to increased immigration, governments in many countries including Germany, Sweden and Norway implemented more restrictive immigration policy. A requirement for all countries, however, is the protection and welfare provision for all arriving children, regardless of their nationality, ensured by international and national legal frameworks. This paper provides an overview of the post 2015 immigration crisis in key European countries with a special focus on current demographics, refugee children, mental health studies, policies and practical support available for refugees.
- Subjects
EUROPE; REFUGEES; CHILD welfare; CHILDREN'S health; MENTAL health; ADOLESCENT health; GOVERNMENT policy; CHILDREN
- Publication
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 4, p389
- ISSN
1018-8827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00787-017-1094-8