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Der EuGH hat in seinem Urteil vom 11. Juni 2024 einen geschlechtsspezifischen Asylgrund bestätigt: Frauen, die jahrelang in einem Umfeld der Gleichberechtigung zwischen Frauen und Männern gelebt haben, können unter Umständen einen Anspruch auf Asyl haben, wenn sie diese Lebensweise in ihrem Heimatland aufgeben müssten. Das Urteil stärkt damit nicht nur die Stellung von Frauen in Asylfragen. Es könnte sich auch auf den Schutzstatus von sogenannten „Klimaflüchtlingen“ auswirken.

In the lingering wake of the European Refugee Crisis of 2015, population demographics within Germany’s borders continue to change. As these changes occur, sentiments in relation to incoming populations also shift. This essay details the findings of a socio-linguistic study of the portrayal of migrant populations in a corpus of news articles recently collected from four popular German news venues. Using topic modeling, (a computational method of large-scale text analysis), this study analyzes the discourse surrounding and sentiment toward migrant populations in German news media. By exploring the media contexts of the terms Flüchtling, Ausländer and Einwanderer this study reveals how media representations further propagate stereotypes and prevent the integration of migrant populations into German society.

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This paper outlines the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of dissociation following, and in response to, traumatic experience, in particular the experience of refugees, calling on 30 years' experience in working with refugees in voluntary and public sectors, including 20 years at the Refugee Therapy Centre, London. It differentiates dissociation from repression, and looks at some of the specific traumatic experiences associated with refugees' displacement and situation, particularly relating to loss. Four key characteristics of resilience are described: 'psychic space', 'sense of self', and the use of a 'listening other' and 'healthy dissociation/resiliency'. Two vignettes are given to illustrate the difference between healthy and unhealthy dissociation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses current migration policies and the status quo of refugees by circumscribing some specificities of its subjective configuration. Traumatic elements and expressive hiatuses belonging to the representational capacity show to be contingencies, a corollary of repeated exposure to precariousness and violence. Based on some metapsychological tools and the interlocution between psychoanalysis, culture and literature, the most relevant and idiosyncratic aspects of the clinic of refuge are developed. To achieve that, the strongly autobiographical narrative "Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta" by Romanian writer Aglaja Veteranyi is used as an illustrative resource. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hintergrund: Etwa ein Drittel bis die Hälfte der unbegleiteten minderjährigen Flüchtlinge (UMF) leidet unter einer behandlungsbedürftigen posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung (PTBS). Dennoch finden die wenigsten Betroffenen den Weg in eine Psychotherapie. Die traumafokussierte kognitive Verhaltenstherapie (TF-KVT) ist derzeit eines der am besten untersuchten Therapiemanuale für Kinder und Jugendliche mit PTBS. Im Rahmen einer Fallserie mit UMF zeigte sich die TF-KVT als vielversprechend hinsichtlich ihrer Anwendbarkeit und Symptomreduktion. Aktuell findet eine unkontrollierte Pilotstudie statt, um die spezifischen Anforderungen der manualisierten Arbeit für UMF zu systematisieren. Aus dieser Stichprobe wird der Fall eines UMF vorgestellt, um dem interessierten Kliniker einen Einblick in die Praxis des Verfahrens mit dieser Zielgruppe zu ermöglichen. Fallbericht: Der multipel traumatisierte 17-jährige Patient aus Afghanistan kam mit den Diagnosen PTBS und mittelgradige depressive Episode zur Behandlung. Er wurde mit der TF-KVT behandelt, die sich kultursensibel anwenden ließ. Nach Abschluss der Therapie erfüllte der Jugendliche die Diagnosen nicht mehr. Schlussfolgerungen: Die TF-KVT ermöglicht eine kultursensible und evidenzbasierte Behandlung von UMF mit PTBS. Sie kann als vielversprechendes Therapiekonzept für diese Zielgruppe angesehen werden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an overview of monoreligious and interreligious friendships be-tween Christian and Muslim young people. The methodological basis of the study are 62 qualitative interviews with pupils between 18 and 25 years of age. About half of the interviewed Christians (43%) and about two thirds of the young Muslims (64%) do also lead interreligious friendships. Interreligious friendships are forstered by attending school together. Young people who are strongly oriented to-wards their own religion tend to have monoreligious friendships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Die in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmende Migration von Menschen aus ihrer Heimat in weit entfernte Regionen bedingt auch eine Migration von bislang in Europa ungewöhnlichen Erkrankungen, die nicht nur aus dem jeweiligen Heimatland, sondern auch besonders aus den Transitländern stammen. Wir berichten über einen 27-jährigen Patienten aus Eritrea, der sich nach monatelanger Flucht durch verschiedene afrikanische Länder mit einer progredienten, schmerzhaften Radikulopathie vorstellte. Eine „Whole-spine“-Magnetresonanztomographie zeigte einen Myelonherd von TH11 bis zum Conus medullaris reichend. Die differenzialdiagnostische Abklärung ergab schließlich den Nachweis von Schistosomas mansoni. Nach leitliniengerechter Therapie mit Praziquantel über 3 Tage und ergänzender Kortikoidverabreichung über 3 Monate konnte klinisch und magnetresonanztomographisch eine Regression des Befundes und eine Verbesserung der Symptomatik gezeigt werden. Der Fall zeigt, dass insbesondere bei Patienten mit Migrationshintergrund ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Anamnese und die etwaige Exposition im Herkunfts-, besonders aber in den Durchreiseländern gelegt werden sollte. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The current refugee crisis requires new thinking and durable policies which move beyond simply meeting the short‐term immediate needs of refugees. In the context of this protracted crisis, the humanitarian response has included a focus on cash transfer programming as a way to support Syrian refugees in Jordan to meet their basic needs. While evidence on cash transfers in stable contexts has been well‐documented over the last two decades, little is known about the potential effects of cash transfers on populations in protracted displacement. This article examines the economic and social effects of a UNHCR cash transfer programme for Syrian refugees in urban areas in Jordan. We find that almost all beneficiaries used the transfer to pay rent, and that this reduces stress and anxiety among beneficiaries. These effects are important, but depend on the continuation of cash transfer support. For longer‐term impacts, assistance for refugees needs to move beyond short‐term support and align better with national interventions and a broader enabling policy environment, including refugees' right to work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With each additional accumulative exposure to severe and traumatic stressors, the likelihood of developing mental health problems and physical diseases increases. Displaced individuals have usually experienced a number of serious threats to health due to organized violence in their home country or attacks during the flight. Frequently, domestic violence adds additional strain to the stressors experienced. The resulting impairments in psychosocial functioning reduce the resources needed for social adjustment and integration. Social exclusion then in turn often further aggravates the existing mental health complications. For the treatment of trauma spectrum disorders, different evidence-based psychotherapies are available. In high-income countries, trained and licensed psychotherapists are typically in positions to apply such interventions; however, even an advanced system with a high capacity, such as the psychotherapeutic care offered in Germany, severely struggles to manage the demands associated with the rapid addition of hundreds of thousands of displaced people. Germany's mental healthcare system at present lacks the resources, both human and technological, to effectively manage the present demands. Systematic scientific studies in resource-poor regions of war and conflict have demonstrated that the dissemination of effective treatment to local personnel, even with limited training, results in substantial improvements in the mental health challenges within the community: Organized as a cascade model, members of the refugee community learn to identify weakened fellow citizens requiring in-depth diagnostic interviews. Educated, bilingual individuals acquainted with their country's healthcare system (e. g. nurses, teachers and social workers) receive training to conduct structured interviews and evidence-based interventions under the supervision of centrally organized licensed psychotherapists. More complex cases are referred to local psychotherapists, psychiatrists or specialized treatment centers. These humanitarian efforts are based on the convention for the protection of human rights and secure the safety, freedom and dignity of these persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Refugee research is hardly institutionalised as a field of research in Germany but is widely established internationally. Despite various debates about methodology in and implications of refugee research, a comprehensive discussion about its foundational challenges is still missing. This paper first outlines refugee research as a research field and briefly illustrates its history and its object of research. It is argued that refugee research is an element of migration studies historically and thematically, yet constitutes its own field of research due to its specific focus on refugees' rights and protection. This is followed by a discussion of central challenges that research projects in this field find themselves confronted with. Firstly, the definition of "refugee" is contested and, therefore, the object of research depends on disciplines, thematic approaches, and context, making efforts to define terminology a fixture of refugee research. This makes interdisciplinary cooperation, which requires clarity about different approaches and common research frameworks, particularly difficult in a research field where such cooperation is so crucial. Transparency is also important in regards to refugee research's relevance for practice, which is aimed at reducing suffering on the one hand and requires independence from terms and goals of practice on the other. Considering the specific vulnerability of refugees, research has to employ particularly high ethical standards of methodology and be extremely sensitive to the political implications of its research outcomes. Due to these challenges, refugee research must implement continuous reflections about its foundations in order to do justice to its subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents anthropological research which focuses on asylum seekers and political refugees in France and examines how they are eventually able to recreate a memory of their country of origin before their exile from it. The author discusses the refugees' traumatic experiences and their reception in France and the role of the French government is helping legalize their status.

Archives form a valuable but under-researched resource for mapping the development of prehistoric archae- ology as a discipline in post-war Europe. New work on the previously un-catalogued archives of Professor Paul Jacobsthal at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, exemplify the opportunities offered by archival research. Here, we focus on the correspondence between Professor Jacobsthal of Marburg University, who sought refuge in Oxford before the war, and his colleague, Professor Merhart, who remained in Germany. The surviving personal correspondence between Germany and Oxford from 1936 to 1957 illustrates the complexities, uncertainties, and challenges to personal and academic identities in the aftermath of the war, and show how the individual responses of archaeologists to their personal experiences impacted on the direc- tions taken by archaeological scholarship in Europe and beyond after the war. Archives form a valuable but under-researched resource for mapping the development of prehistoric archae- ology as a discipline in post-war Europe. New work on the previously un-catalogued archives of Professor Paul Jacobsthal at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, exemplify the opportunities offered by archival research. Here, we focus on the correspondence between Professor Jacobsthal of Marburg University, who sought refuge in Oxford before the war, and his colleague, Professor Merhart, who remained in Germany. The surviving personal correspondence between Germany and Oxford from 1936 to 1957 illustrates the complexities, uncertainties, and challenges to personal and academic identities in the aftermath of the war, and show how the individual responses of archaeologists to their personal experiences impacted on the direc- tions taken by archaeological scholarship in Europe and beyond after the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Interpreting' could be thought about as a legal equal opportunities or human rights issue. Whereas interpreters are likely to focus on the linguistic issues, and will be aware of the technical complexities of their work. Clinicians may worry about the impact on the therapeutic relationship of the interpreter's presence, how this will be managed and how it may depend on the match or mismatch of such factors as the client's gender, age and first or other language. This paper considers the issue on each of these levels to reveal the complexities and dilemmas of effective clinical work with interpreters, but also what can be achieved: the multiple layers of meaning concerning the client's experience and communication which can be elicited through effective working between interpreter and clinician. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zur Behandlung posttraumatischer Belastungsstörungen (PTSD) gelten traumafokussierte Verfahren international als Methode der Wahl. Erste Studien legen nahe, dass diese Methoden auch bei traumatisierten Asylsuchenden anwendbar und effizient sind. Zusätzlich zu ihren meist schwer ausgeprägten Symptomen leben Asylsuchende in anhaltend unsicheren Lebenssituationen. Letztere können im Therapieverlauf wiederholte Krisen auslösen, die eine Unterbrechung der Traumakonfrontation nötig machen. Dieser Fallbericht beschreibt den Verlauf und die Ergebnisse einer traumafokussierten kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie (KVT) mit einem 30-jährigen Bosnier, der in der Schweiz Asyl beantragt hat. Die 69 Sitzungen dauernde KVT enthielt die Elemente Therapievorbereitung, Alltagsbewältigung, Expositionen in sensu und in vivo sowie Ressourcenaktivierung. Die deutsche Version der PTSD Symptom Scale wurde vor und nach der Haupttherapiephase sowie nach der Therapieabschlussphase abgenommen. Die zu Therapiebeginn stark ausgeprägte PTSD-Symptomatik nahm im Verlauf der Sitzungen deutlich ab. Nach der Expositionsphase verbesserten sich die Symptome weiterhin. In der 18-Monatskatamnese war der Patient störungsfrei. Der Fallbericht zeigt beispielhaft, dass evidenzbasierte traumafokussierte KVT inklusive früher Traumaexposition zur Behandlung traumatisierter Asylsuchender anwendbar ist und die Belastung deutlich reduzieren kann - auch wenn zum Behandlungszeitpunkt erhebliche Postmigrationsstressoren bestehen. Gleichzeitig illustriert der Bericht, dass die Traumakonfrontationen möglicherweise wiederholt durch Phasen stabilisierender Interventionen unterbrochen werden müssen. Copyright © 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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