European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 27, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 389-399

Refugees in Europe: national overviews from key countries with a special focus on child and adolescent mental health (Editorial) (Open Access)

Hodes M. , Vasquez M.M. , Anagnostopoulos D. , Triantafyllou K. , Abdelhady D. , Weiss K. , Koposov R. , Cuhadaroglu F. , Hebebrand J. , Skokauskas N.*
  • a Centre for Psychiatry, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  • b International Organization for Migration Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
  • c Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • d Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • e Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  • f Former University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
  • g UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
  • h University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
  • i University of Duisburg-Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
  • j Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Child Protection, Institute of Psychiatry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Klostergata 46, Trondheim, 7030, Norway

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. © 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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Germany refugee multicenter study Norway clinical trial mental health immigration human Refugees trends Minors Sweden Humans psychology Adolescent male female welfare minor (person) human experiment government Child
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85038634207&doi=10.1007%2fs00787-017-1094-8&partnerID=40&md5=68f645ebe485b6df66a668aca0ce46e8
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-017-1094-8
ISSN: 10188827
Cited by: 9
Original Language: English