| | Immigrant and Refugee Research NetworkOctober 2023 Newsletter | To submit information for the next newsletter, use this google form. If you’re receiving this email from a friend and want to subscribe, use this link!
| | | Faculty Position: UCLA’s Department of Social Welfare has a tenure-track faculty opening for a scholar with expertise in an area of social policy. Call for Papers: Special Issue on Community-Based Mental Health Promotion and Psychosocial Support in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). This special issue seeks to delve into the transformative role of communities in mental health promotion and psychosocial support. We're keen on contributions that explore community-based approaches for mental health care delivery, stigma reduction, and community engagement. We also value insights on strategies to integrate mental health and psychosocial support services within diverse community settings, the interplay between mental health and community resilience, the impact of social determinants of health on mental health outcomes, and innovative models capitalizing on community strengths to promote mental health. Submissions that provide multidisciplinary and global perspectives, especially those emphasizing the role of social work in community-based approaches, are particularly welcome. If your research aligns with this theme, we encourage you to share a brief description of your envisioned paper for this special issue as soon as possible, ideally no later than October 15th. We're offering complimentary publication (free of charge) for up to four papers. Although the submission deadline is February 10, 2024, we'll be presenting a list of invited papers to the publisher shortly for pre-approval. Please direct your submissions and inquiries to the guest editor, Hyojin Im, at him@vcu.edu. For comprehensive details, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/H952LT6P3I.
| | | Mustafa Rfat has received a small grant from the Center for Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Washington University in St. Louis to investigate social determinants of health among refugees with disabilities living in the US. Kafuli Agbemenu recently received an R21 from NIMHD titled, 'Developing and Testing a Smart Phone Based Contraceptive Use Educational Intervention for African Immigrant Women with Low Literacy'.
| | | Cureton, A., & Aguinaldo, E. (2023). Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Muslim refugee youths’ identity development and civic engagement in school-based settings. Youth & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X231199125 Evans, K., Nemphos, N., Husfloen, T., Ferguson, H. & Goss, K. (2023). Examining traumatic experiences: Violence, loss, isolation, cultural struggle, and their influence on the mental health of unaccompanied Rohingya youth resettled in the US. Journal of Trauma and Loss. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2023.2246269 Im, H., George, N., and Swan, L.E.T. (2023). Gendered health outcome among Somali refugee youth in displacement: A role of social support and religious belief. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-023-01546-6 Im, H., Swan, L.E.T., & George, N. (2023). Unraveling trouble socializing: The impact on the intersection of trauma, substance use, and mental disorders in Somali refugee youth. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-023-01145-4 Kirsch, J., Haran, H., & Maleku, A. (2023). “Every crisis is a time for opportunity”: Immigrant-refugee leadership perspectives in the COVID-19 era. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2023.2247955 Naseh, M., Ilea, P., Aldana, A. & Sutherland, I. (2023). Family separation as an oppressive tool: A scoping review of child separation from the primary caregiver as the result of migration policies. Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107157 Reed-Danahay, D. and H.Wulff, eds. (2024), Anthropological Approaches to Reading Migrant Writing: Reimagining Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge, and Power. NY: Routledge.
| | | Kitchens, K., & Mitschke, D. B. (2023, October). Length of time post-resettlement as a factor predicting somatic idioms of distress in resettled Karen refugees from Burma: A retrospective chart review. Paper presented at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Atlanta, GA. Mitra Naseh (WashU Brown School) and Adriana Aldana (California State University, Dominguez Hills) will have a workshop on "Family Separation as a Tool of Oppression in the United States" as part of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Diversity Center's Annual Program Meeting (APM) Pre-Conference Institute. The workshop will be part of a pre-conference series titled "The Radical Tradition of Teaching Human Rights: Education, Reflection, and Action," scheduled for October 25, 2023, in Atlanta, GA. This workshop will explore both historical and contemporary policies in the United States that have used family separation as a tool of oppression, with a particular emphasis on immigration policies that lead to family separations.
| | | We are recruiting immigrant students to be part of a research study looking at on-campus experiences of the forcibly displaced. Please see the flyer for more information and details on eligibility and compensation. We are running short on time, so please consider sharing directly with any students you work with! I am a PhD candidate working on my dissertation. As part of my dissertation, I am conducting interviews with immigrant and refugees around wealth and asset building processes. Please see the recruitment flyer and consider sharing. To submit information for the next newsletter, use this google form. If you’re receiving this email from a friend and want to subscribe, use this link!
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