The impact of detention on the health of asylum seekers: An updated systematic review: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of people fleeing persecution and regional conflicts is rising. Western countries have applied increasingly stringent measures to discourage those seeking asylum from entering their country, amongst them, to confine asylum seekers in detention facilities. Clinicians have expressed concerns over the mental health impact of detention on asylum seekers, a population already burdened with trauma, advocating against such practices.

Objectives

The main objective of this review is to assess evidence about the effects of detention on the mental and physical health and social functioning of asylum seekers.

Search methods

Relevant literature was identified through electronic searches of bibliographic databases, internet search engines, hand searching of co

SUBMITTER: Filges T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11228430 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature