Self-perceived mental health and factors associated with the mental health of Hong Kong's asylum-seekers and refugees - A mixed methods study.

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The 21st century has seen vast flows of displaced people. In the year 2020 alone, an estimated 11.2 million were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict or generalized violence. The torment and fear of war, persecution and threat to life, whether in the home country, during the process of fleeing, or in the post-migration host country, can be extremely traumatic to these marginalized populations. Hong Kong is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, but the territory has signed the 1967 UN(CAT) which requires the former colony to allow people who flee for their lives to have their cases processed in Hong Kong. Currently there are around 14,000 cases in Hong Kong, some of whom have been in Hong Kong for more than a decade, waiting for their claims

SUBMITTER: Ng I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9939599 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature