Refugee, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health

Refugee, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health

Public health

Ethnic Minority Health

International migration, particularly to Europe, has increased in the last few decades, making research on aspects of this phenomenon, including numbers, challenges, and successes, particularly vital. Accordingly, we are pleased to introduce a Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health on the health of refugees, migrants, and ethnic minorities. Discussions of a topic must begin with foundational definitions: A “migrant” is any individual who moves across international borders away from his or her country of origin, regardless of legal status or cause. A “refugee” is any person who, resulting from a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his/her nationality and is either unable or too scared to avail himself/herself of the protection of that country. An “asylum seeker” (AS) is someone who has applied for protection as a refugee and is awaiting the determination of his or her status .The above definitions may vary according to country and local law; however, there remain fundamental distinctions between a migrant and a refugee. In comparison with migrants, refugees have not chosen to leave their country but have fled in response to a crisis. They are more likely to leave family behind, travel without proper documents, have little choice on their country of arrival, and will probably never return home. These unique characteristic impact how migrants and refugees should be considered in terms of both needs and health outcomes.

Aristomenis Exadaktylos,

David Shiva Srivastava,

Osnat Keidar and

Emmanouil Pikoulis

https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1653

MDPI

October 2019

Shiefti Dyah

The Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

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English

Textbooks

https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03921-645-1

ISBN 978-3-03921-645-1 (PDF)

Public Health