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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AsylumA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Mental Health Costs of Armed Conflicts—A Review of Systematic Reviews Conducted on Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and People Living in War ZonesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Maria; or, The Wrongs of WomanThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK pressCited 1,239 times
- Go sideways: HauntedA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Darkness (disambiguation)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A place of safety or refuge.
Noun The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
Noun A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Verb to place in an asylum
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press
The prevalence of mental illness in refugees and asylum seekers: A systematic review and meta-analysis
How economic, humanitarian, and religious concerns shape European attitudes toward asylum seekers
The Relationship Between Post-Migration Stress and Psychological Disorders in Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Anxiety, depression and PTSD in asylum-seekers: Assocations with pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors
Out of Time: The Temporal Uncertainties of Refused Asylum Seekers and Immigration Detainees
Mental health care utilisation and access among refugees and asylum seekers in Europe: A systematic review
Impact of a Long Asylum Procedure on the Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Iraqi Asylum Seekers in The Netherlands
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Mental Health Costs of Armed Conflicts—A Review of Systematic Reviews Conducted on Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and People Living in War Zones
Prevalence of mental disorders in refugees and asylum seekers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Life and mental health in limbo of the Ukraine war: How can helpers assist civilians, asylum seekers and refugees affected by the war?
Structural barriers to refugee, asylum seeker and undocumented migrant healthcare access. Perceptions of Doctors of the World caseworkers in the UK
Barriers to accessing mental health care for refugees and asylum seekers in high-income countries: A scoping review of reviews mapping demand and supply-side factors onto a conceptual framework
📚 Books worth reading
Maria; or, The Wrongs of WomanMary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin · 1799
Ten days in a mad-houseNellie Bly, BookCaps · 1905
No man is an islandThomas Merton · 1955
MandyJulie Edwards, Julie Andrews · 1971
Arkham AsylumGrant Morrison, Dave McKean · 1920
De ecclesiaJohn Wycliffe · 1886
The refugee in international lawGuy S. Goodwin-Gill, Guy Goodwin-Gill · 1983
The rose and the keySheridan Le Fanu · 1870
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