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Mental health issues and needs of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugee claimants and refugees in Toronto, Canada.
- Source :
- Psychology & Sexuality; Dec2022, Vol. 13 Issue 5, p1168-1178, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- LGBTQ+ people experience mental health challenges due to their minoritized status, systemic inequities and structural disparities. For LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugee claimants and refugees the impact on their mental health can be compounding. This study, which featured a series of focus groups with LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugee claimants and refugees in Toronto, Canada, was part of a larger international study 'Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights' that looked at colonising effects on LGBTQ people in the Commonwealth. The migration process, – often forced due to persecution in their country of origin based on sexual orientation or gender identity and expression – produced traumatic experiences involving life-changing decisions, accessing information and resources, cultural shifts, conceptualisation of identities, and navigating the refugees claims process. The specialised experiences of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, refugee claimants and refugees can have a deleterious effect on their mental health that a critical psychology perspective can address clinically by recognising the particularised needs of this population and systemically by addressing the structural inequities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BIRTHPLACES
SEXUAL orientation
HEALTH services accessibility
FOCUS groups
HUMAN rights
ACCULTURATION
DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
PRACTICAL politics
MENTAL health
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
GENDER identity
EXPERIENCE
QUALITATIVE research
REFUGEES
LGBTQ+ people
RESEARCH funding
DECISION making
HEALTH
INFORMATION resources
ACCESS to information
ACTION research
SEXUAL orientation identity
LEGAL procedure
WOUNDS & injuries
HEALTH equity
THEMATIC analysis
MENTAL illness
MEDICAL needs assessment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19419899
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Psychology & Sexuality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160003931
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2021.1913443