An Analysis of Large-Scale Forced Migration in Africa

Bayar, Murat; Aral, Mustafa M.

doi:10.3390/ijerph16214210

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“…This decrease in numbers of people resettled across the world and the decrease in countries' commitment to refugee resettlement is occurring when the number of refugees is increasing each year. Projected worsening of conflicts in fragile states and concurrent climate change will only add to the dramatic rise in displaced populations, increasing the severity and urgency of the refugee crisis [11,12]. The US refugee resettlement system…”

Section: Context For Us Refugee Resettlement: United Nations and Refugees Around The Worldmentioning

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Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures

Siddiq

Rosenberg

2021

J Public Health Pol

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As ongoing war and violence forcibly displace people worldwide, resettlement remains a critical response to the unprecedented global refugee crisis. In recent years, however, the USA (US) has diminished admissions, forcing agencies to shutter offices and resettlement programs across the nation—posing a silent threat to the refugee resettlement system. We provide historical context of refugee resettlement, discuss challenges, and offer recommendations for healthcare providers to become more effective advocates for refugee health in the USA. The need is urgent for healthcare providers and institutions—particularly in regions of high resettlement—to advocate for expanding and assuring sustainable capacity to care for refugees. Key elements include promotion of trauma-informed care, integration of social services in primary care settings, partnership with community-based organizations to promote continuation of care, advocacy for resources and services, and opposition to policies detrimental to the health of refugees and immigrants.

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Section: Context For Us Refugee Resettlement: United Nations and Refugees Around The Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures

Siddiq

Rosenberg

2021

J Public Health Pol

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“…7 These changes to the 'weather' are directly tied to increasing food and water scarcity, which in turn lead to displacement through forced migration and armed conflict. 8 The consensus among those studying this phenomenon is that climate change is a product of changes to human behaviour since the industrial revolution. 9 Through unregulated extraction and consumption of carbon-based fuels, the global temperature has steadily increased, long after this association was first suspected in 1896 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius.…”

Section: Climate Change: One Driver Of Biodiversity Loss Among Manymentioning

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“…7 These changes to the ‘weather’ are directly tied to increasing food and water scarcity, which in turn lead to displacement through forced migration and armed conflict. 8 …”

Section: Climate Change: One Driver Of Biodiversity Loss Among Manymentioning

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The need for biodiversity champions in psychiatry: the entwined crises of climate change and ecological collapse

Krzanowski

2021

BJPsych Bull

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Summary The past 20 years have seen the disappearance and degradation of biodiversity on earth at unprecedented rates. This phenomenon shares similar drivers to those behind climate change yet requires its own solutions. The twin catastrophes of climate change and biodiversity loss demonstrate how our health is bound up in the vitality of this planet. There has been an increasing effort on the part of healthcare professionals to appreciate this relationship, as evidenced by the growing influence of planetary health as a discipline. However, the health impacts of biodiversity loss have been less focused on than those brought on by climate change. Psychiatry's appreciation of the interface between environments and our health, alongside the evidence for the connection between nature and mental health specifically, prompt psychiatrists to ensure that the institution of healthcare throws its influence equally behind solutions to climate change as well as biodiversity loss.

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“…Drivers taken into account by human development include education levels, health, and distribution of resources. Human security pays attention to non-conventional sources of insecurity, including environmental degradation, food insecurity, and institutionalized forms of gender violence [30][31][32]. In a similar line, recent literature includes new information technologies to address migration drivers and to respond to challenges for providing livelihoods to the refugee population [33].…”

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“…Coupled with the latter, evidence from Bangladesh shows that the nexus between environmental change and food security (livelihoods) and the decision to migrate does not just depend on the lack of means to subsistence but also on the socio-ecological context. For example, people living in fragile salt-shrimp-dependent ecosystems in Bangladesh intended to migrate, but the majority of people living in rain-fed agriculture-dependent settings preferred to not migrate because they have more resilience and sustainable mechanisms [32].…”

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Exploring Connections—Environmental Change, Food Security and Violence as Drivers of Migration—A Critical Review of Research

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Migration, whether triggered by single events, such as violent conflict, or by long term pressures related to environmental change or food insecurity is altering sustainable development in societies. Although there is a large amount of literature, there is a gap for consolidating frameworks of migration-related to the interaction and correlation between drivers. We review scientific papers and research reports about three categories of drivers: Environmental Change (EC), Food Security (FS), and Violent Conflict (VC). First, we organize the literature to understand the explanations of the three drivers on migration individually, as well as the interactions among each other. Secondly, we analyse the literature produced regarding Colombia, Myanmar, and Tanzania; countries with different combinations of the driving factors for migration. Although we find that many correlations are explained in the literature, migration is mostly driven by structural vulnerabilities and unsustainable development paths in places that have a low resilience capacity to cope with risk. For example, food insecurity, as a product of environmental changes (droughts and floods), is seen as a mediating factor detonating violent conflict and migration in vulnerable populations. The paper contributes to the literature about multi-driven migration, presenting an overview of the way in which different driver combinations trigger migration. This is important for determining the best governance mechanisms and policy responses that tackle forced migration and improve the resilience of vulnerable communities as well as sustainable development.

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An Analysis of Large-Scale Forced Migration in Africa

Cited by 20 publications

References 42 publications

Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures

Clinicians as advocates amid refugee resettlement agency closures

The need for biodiversity champions in psychiatry: the entwined crises of climate change and ecological collapse

Exploring Connections—Environmental Change, Food Security and Violence as Drivers of Migration—A Critical Review of Research

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