Refugees And Mental Health Case Study

Refugees and mental health issues are one of the common impact of globalisation. Liu and Cheng(2011,p.44) explore the factors related to migration that it is increasing rapidly within one nation to other nation however some various reasons affect such as socio-economic, political, religious and pursuing a better job and higher education. There are some people called refugees who pass through the traumatic conditions and has fear to die therefore they seek out assistance from other safe country and unable to return back to their own country. To acquire a safe place to live they have to pass through different distressing conditions and nervousness to settle in new place, unemployment, loss of their relationships, relatives and culture in resulted to mental health issues arise such as depression and anxiety. Department of Health and Human Services (2015) indicates that ‘19,431 have been granted permanently protection on humanitarian program visas.’ According to Australian Bureau of Statics (ABS) (2010), anxiety disorder common among young people outstanding some unpredicted accidents which is outside the range of usual human experience in response to these issue, the refugee health program was developed and implemented in 2005. The aim of this paper is to analytically analysis the evidence …show more content…
It is well known that refugees experience discrimination in law and practice. Discrimination is one of the factors that affect the mental health of individual and the overall productivity of the country. The inequality between the refugees and non-refugees (immigrants) give rise of social tension and community commotion. The results of some surveys online highlights that people from immigrant and refugee communities experience high rates of discrimination and that the experience are clearly associated with poor mental