Refugees in Europe: national overviews from key countries with a special focus on child and adolescent mental health
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Hodes, Matthew
Vasquez, Melisa Mendoza
Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris
Triantafyllou, Kalliopi
Abdelhady, Dalia
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Many European countries are becoming multicultural at a previously unseen rate. The number of immigrants including refugees has considerably increased since 2008, and especially after the beginning of the war in Syria. In 2015, 88,300 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in the Member States of the European Union (EU) and most came from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea. As a reaction to increased immigration, governments in many countries including Germany, Sweden and Norway implemented more restrictive immigration policy. A requirement for all countries, however, is the protection and welfare provision for all arriving children, regardless of their nationality, ensured by international and national legal frameworks. This paper provides an overview of the post 2015 immigration crisis in key European countries with a special focus on current demographics, refugee children, mental health studies, policies and practical support available for refugees.
Date Issued
2018-04-01
Date Acceptance
2017-12-01
Citation
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018, 27 (4), pp.389-399
ISSN
1018-8827
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
389
End Page
399
Journal / Book Title
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume
27
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2017. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-017-1094-8
Identifier
PII: 10.1007/s00787-017-1094-8
Subjects
1103 Clinical Sciences
1701 Psychology
Developmental & Child Psychology
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2017-12-21