Mental health training for Southeast Asian refugee resettlement workers

Bibliographic Data

ID9973528
AuthorsAngela Shen Ryan (corresponding author), Irwin Epstein (0000-0003-3671-8359)
Year1987
Volume30
Issue2
Pages185-198
Publication date1987-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002087288703000209
OpenAlexW2092929668
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited4

The resettlement of refugees has been carried out primarily by a number of voluntary agencies in co-operation with the US State Department, the United Nations, and the Immigration and Naturalization Services. A significant and growing number of refugees are selecting New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, or Providence, Rhode Island, as their intended place of residence. Moreover, there is increasing evidence of secondary migration to the northeast cities of refugees originally settled in other areas of the country. Unemployment, underemployment and a loss of cash assistance benefits in other areas may account for an accelerated growth in the secondary migrant populations in those cities. Since 1979 (which marked the beginning of a ’second wave’), Southeast Asian refugees (Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese) have tended to be from rural areas, with little education, rudimentary English language skills, little familiarity with American culture, and often illiterate in their native language. This group contrasts with the earlier Southeast Asian refugees, who were

Economic growth · Ethnology · Geography · Mental health · Migrant workers · Political science · Psychiatry · Refugee · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Southeast asia · Training (meteorology · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Global Health Workforce Issues · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Work

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