The Global Refugee Crisis
Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications for Improving Public Attitudes and Facilitating Refugee Resettlement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12908166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria M Esses (0000-0001-8002-2725, Western University, corresponding author), Leah K Hamilton (0000-0003-2623-7471, Mount Royal University), Danielle Gaucher (University of Winnipeg) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-123 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Issues and Policy Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2395 • E-ISSN: 1751-2409 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sipr.12028 |
| OpenAlex | W2579233911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 169 |
| References cited | 137 |
The number of refugees across the globe is at an alarming high and is expected to continue to rise for the foreseeable future. As a result, finding durable solutions for refugees has become a major challenge worldwide. The literature reviewed and policy implications discussed in this article are based on the premise that one of the major solutions to the refugee crisis must be refugee resettlement in new host countries. For such a solution to succeed, however, requires relatively favorable attitudes by members of host societies, protection of the well‐being of refugees, and effective integration of refugees into new host countries. In this context, we begin by reviewing the literature on determinants of public attitudes toward refugees, the acculturation of refugees in host societies, and factors affecting refugee mental health, all of which are directly relevant to the success of the resettlement process. We then turn our attention to the policy implications of these literatures, and discuss strategies for improving public attitudes toward refugees and refugee resettlement in host countries; for improving the resettlement process to reduce mental health challenges; and for supporting the long‐term acculturation and integration of refugees in their new homes
Acculturation · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Globe · Immigration · Mental health · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Bridging the Divide
The State of Acculturation and Identity Distress among Stranded Adolescent Biharis in Bangladesh
Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance
Refugee Solutions in the Age of Global Crisis
Americans preferred Syrian refugees who are female, English-speaking, and Christian on the eve of Donald Trump’s election
Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Immigrants
The contemporary refugee crisis
The Social Determinants of Refugee Mental Health in the Post-Migration Context
Syrian Women Refugees
Visual frames of migrants and refugees in the main Western European media
Are Refugees Really Welcome? Understanding Northern Ireland Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees
The Mediating Role of Perceived Threat in the Relationship between Casual Contact and Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Examining Refugee Integration
South African attitudes towards refugee settlement
Under Pressure
Attitudes toward Refugees in Contemporary Europe
Problems and Issues Concerning Social Integration of Elderly Refugees in Turkey
Reactions towards Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Threatened or Threatening
Separating families, recuperating the “nation-as-family”
Life as struggle
Art and the asylum seeker
From compassion to controversy
Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (Pari)
Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice
The Impact of Racist Discourse on the Psychosocial Wellbeing of Refugees
The TikTok Effect
Transit-Oriented Development and Suburban Gentrification
Contact with North Koreans can extend to South Koreans’ support for refugees
Promoting Adjustment for Yazidi Refugees
Practices for inclusion, structures of marginalisation
Thematic and sentiment analysis on X
Threat Perceptions and Closeness to Refugees
Hiring discrimination against refugees
Working with refugee families, trauma and exile in family relationships
Former Refugees’ Acculturation Processes and Their Views on Newly Arrived Refugees in Germany
Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses
Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content
Parents’ attitudes towards students with a background of migration—Does the background of migration matter
The Refugee Reception Crisis
Vernacular Border Security
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights
Distributive Politics of U.S. Refugee Resettlement
Critical assessment of refugees’ needs in post-emergency context
Refugee mental health
Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes
From loss to involuntary liquidity
Exploring visual representations by the UNHCR of the experiences of resettled Syrian refugees in Canada
Altruism, Ethnic Identity, and the Limits of Shared Hardship
Culturally Effective Practice With Refugees in Community Health Centers
Achieving Better Integration of Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Republic
System justification motivation as a source of backlash against equality‐promoting policies—and what to do about it
Historical analogies under dispute
Terrorism, migrant crisis and attitudes towards immigrants from outside of the European Union
Setting the Agenda for Research on Media and Migration
Emergence of Rohingya militant groups in the Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar
Refugee artists and memories of displacement
Educators’ attitudes towards refugee pupils
What a Difference a Year Makes
A Scoping Review of Social Support Interventions with Refugees in Resettlement Contexts
Evolution of negative visual frames of immigrants and refugees in the main media of Southern Europe
The contact hypothesis during the European refugee crisis
Climate change and intergroup relations
Who feels marginalized? A latent class analysis of perceived societal marginalization
Inclusive social norms and nationals’ positive intergroup orientations toward refugees
Longitudinal effects of helping war refugees on intergroup threat and fear of war
The rise of the South Korean alt-right
Childbearing motivation at the onset of emerging adulthood
Don’t forget about us
Teachers’ and parents’ attitudes towards inclusion of pupils with a first language other than the language of instruction
Refugee integration
Ethnic Nationalism and Attitudes Towards Refugees in the Czech Republic
Positive versus negative contact and refugees' intentions to migrate
Positive and negative behavioural intentions towards refugees in Turkey
From empathy to action
The mediating role of national identification, binding foundations and perceived threat on the relationship between need for cognitive closure and prejudice against migrants in Malta
Ugandan and British individuals' views of refugees in their countries
Supporting Ukrainian refugees
Terrorism in the Lake Chad Region
Adapting and Validating a Survey to Assess Host Communities Support for Migration
Gender employment gap at arrival and its dynamics
Attitudes Toward Immigration
Emotional foundations of refugee policy support
Eine migrationsfreundlichere Gesellschaft durch den Generationenwandel? Kohortenanalysen für Ost- und Westdeutschland
An empirical-analytical approach to the study of recent refugee migrants in Germany
Susceptibility to threatening information and attitudes toward refugee resettlement
A near‐real‐time analysis of societal responses to Ukrainian refugee migration in Europe
How effective are integration policy reforms? The case of asylum‐related migrants
L'imaginaire national, l'asile et les réfugiés syriens en Allemagne et au Canada
From Insecurity to Secondary Migration
Mirrored Social Representations of Canadian Caseworkers with Migratory Paths Intervening with Refugees in the Host Country
Integration and social determinants of health and wellbeing for people from refugee backgrounds resettled in a rural town in South Australia
From Hell to Heaven? Lived experiences of LGBTQ migrants in relation to health and their reflections on the future
Intercultural space – A review of the literature
Migrant perceptions of psychological home
Labor market situation of refugees in Europe
Six long years
Xenophobia in the GCC countries
Role of Gardening in Mental Health, Food Security, and Economic Well-Being in Resettled Refugees
Discourses of Domination
When does national identification lead to the rejection of immigrants? Cross‐sectional and longitudinal evidence for the role of essentialist in‐group definitions
Interpersonal Disgust, Ideological Orientations, and Dehumanization as Predictors of Intergroup Attitudes
Social Identity and Self-Categorization
Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries
Lifetime Events and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in 4 Postconflict Settings
News Media, Racial Perceptions, and Political Cognition
Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries
Assuring the Health of Immigrants
Dehumanization and Infrahumanization
Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism
Mental health implications of detaining asylum seekers
The Dynamics of Acculturation
Perceived Intergroup Threat and Attitudes of Host Community Members Toward Immigrant Acculturation
Victim Derogation and Victim Enhancement as Alternate Routes to System Justification
When Attitudes Do Not Fit
Acculturation orientations towards Israeli Arabs and Jewish immigrants in Israel
Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees
Fleeing, Sneaking, Flooding
Epidemiology of Substance Use among Forced Migrants
Impact of immigration detention and temporary protection on the mental health of refugees
Integration of Social Identities in the Self
Impact of Torture on Refugees Displaced Within the Developing World
Point-Counterpoints
Attitudes towards refugees
Postmigration Living Problems and Common Psychiatric Disorders in Iraqi Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
Association of Torture and Other Potentially Traumatic Events With Mental Health Outcomes Among Populations Exposed to Mass Conflict and Displacement
Predisplacement and Postdisplacement Factors Associated With Mental Health of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Dehumanization
Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict
The Role of Threats in the Racial Attitudes of Blacks and Whites
Prejudice Toward Immigrants 1
Acculturation Attitudes in Plural Societies
The Emotional Side of Prejudice
System Justification, the Denial of Global Warming, and the Possibility of “System-Sanctioned Change”
Changing Children's Intergroup Attitudes Toward Refugees
Steps on a journey to TB control in Solomon Islands
The Treated Prevalence of Mental Disorder Amongst Immigrants and the Australian-Born
Beyond Trauma
Gender-related mental health differences between refugees and non-refugee immigrants - a cross-sectional register-based study
Health of foreign-born people in the United States
Perspective taking and decision-making in educational game play
Reaping What You Sow
Prehistoric dangers and contemporary prejudices
Depression and anxiety in labor migrants and refugees – A systematic review and meta-analysis
Asylum Seekers and Resettled Refugees in Australia
Infra‐humanization
Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes
Effects of Perceived Economic Competition on People’s Willingness to Help Empower Immigrants
Social ecology of similarity
Priming Effects of Violence on Infrahumanization
Concordance of Acculturation Attitudes and Perceived Threat
Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions
Attitudes toward unauthorized immigrants, authorized immigrants, and refugees
It Would be Okay If They Came through the Proper Channels
Threatened or Threatening? How Ideology Shapes Asylum Seekers’ Immigration Policy Attitudes in Israel and Australia
Disturbing Practices”
The Structure and Social Functions of Korean Immigrant Churches in the United States
The Structure and Social Functions of Korean Immigrant Churches in the United States
Insiders' Perspectives on Reasons for Attraction to a Close Other
Values and Intergroup Social Motives
Perceptions of national identity and attitudes toward immigrants and immigration in Canada and Germany
The role of discordant acculturation attitudes in perceived threat
The effects of feeling threatened on attitudes toward immigrants
Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia
Social dominance‐based threat reactions to immigrants in need of assistance
Why do citizens want to keep refugees out? Threats, fairness and hostile norms in the treatment of asylum seekers
Political Threat and Immigration
Who We Are and Who Can Join Us
The Immigration Dilemma
Intergroup Competition and Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration
Uncertainty, Threat, and the Role of the Media in Promoting the Dehumanization of Immigrants and Refugees
Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo
Images and affect
Religious Dimensions of Contexts of Reception
Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation
The vicious circle of religious prejudice
It's on Time That They Assimilate” – Differential acculturation expectations towards first and second generation immigrants
Social stigma and self-esteem
Rethinking the concept of acculturation
Towards an Interactive Acculturation Model
Social axioms and acculturation orientations of English Canadians toward British and Arab Muslim immigrants
Social dominance orientation
Are Patriots Bigots? An Inquiry into the Vices of In‐Group Pride
Complementary Justice
The existence bias
Intergroup aggression
Reciprocal liking and attributions of ability
A model of (often mixed) stereotype content
A State of Insecurity
Who's Driving the Asylum Debate? Newspaper and Government Representations of Asylum Seekers
The Health of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada
The role of stereotyping in system-justification and the production of false consciousness
Insights into the 'healthy immigrant effect
Limited English proficiency and psychological distress among Latinos and Asian Americans
Anomalies
Language acquisition, unemployment and depressive disorder among Southeast Asian refugees
Longing to belong
| Unique citing works | 169 |
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| Citations per year | 16,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
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