A Conceptual Model Facilitating the Transition of Involuntary Migrant Families

Abstract

Refugee families face a complex transition due to the nature of involuntary migration and the process of acculturation. There are several risk factors to the family adaptation process during the transition period, which are sociocontextually environmental dependant. Facilitating a healthy transition for refugee families, therefore, requires the role of nursing to incorporate sociopolitics into the discipline. This paper introduces a sociopolitically oriented and community-driven assessment and intervention model which is based on a family systematic approach. Interventions that aid the families in their acculturation process as well as empowers them to a well-functioning daily life, as per the SARFI model, should be adopted. As such, the future of nursing may provide additional primary health care services for refugee families; this is through a team-led “family nurse” who provides quality care for the family unit in collaboration with other health care professionals and societal authorities.

“I am still passionate despite the challenges”: Nurses navigating the care for refugees

“…Nurses face ethical dilemmas regarding the care and advocacy for refugees especially children (Hultsj€ o & Hjelm, 2005;Vydelingum, 2006). These dilemmas may elicit feelings of hopelessness from nurses who also deal with repatriation decisions on behalf of refugee families (Samarasinghe, 2011). They may feel incapacitated by the various impacts that they encounter when working with refugees (Samarasinghe, Fridlund, & Arvidsson, 2006).…”

Parent Support Programmes for Families Who are Immigrants: A Scoping Review

“…3. In a total of 18 studies, the study participants were from mixed cultural backgrounds or the cultural background was not specified [4,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70] (Fig. 3).…”

The Care Ethics of Child Health Nurses in Danish Asylum Centers: An Ethnographic Study

“…Nurses have been noted as particularly influential in facilitating healthy transitions for migrant families into their new society ( Samarasinghe, 2011 ). Much has been written about how nurse health visitors can promote the health of adult refugees who have obtained permanent or temporary residency ( Burchill, 2011 ; Burchill & Pevalin, 2012 , 2014 ; Drennan & Joseph, 2005 ; Pacquiao, 2008 ).…”

“…The authors further note that differences in language and cultural beliefs put a heavy responsibility on the health-workers who rarely had the capacity, training in “cultural competence” or resources to meet the disparate needs of refugee families ( Burchill, 2011 ; Burchill & Pevalin, 2012 , 2014 ). Because of such challenges, it is common for nurses to feel time-pressured when caring for refugee families ( Ogunsiji et al, 2018 ; Samarasinghe, 2011 ). Such challenges are not wholly unproblematic as effective communication and respectful relationships with refugees have been found critical to nursing care ( McBride et al, 2016 ).…”