Self-help psychosocial interventions for refugees in northern Uganda: a band-aid on a bullet wound?
PhD candidate, Costanza Torre refers to her ethnographic fieldwork in which she investigates self-help psychosocial interventions for refugees in northern Uganda and questions whether, although well-meaning, they are taking the focus away from urgent socio-economic issues.
Over the past three decades, mental health has become a mainstream component of humanitarian aid worldwide – so much so, in fact, that psychological programmes have […]
Excluding the Excluded: What India’s refugee ‘law’ means for the Rohingyas
Excluding the Excluded: What India’s refugee ‘law’ means for the Rohingyas
Following the Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, the Government of India’s refugee policy, albeit non-existent, also remains largely exclusionary against the world’s most persecuted minority. Debanjana Paul and Vidushi Mehrotra explore legislative roadblocks, its translation into ad-hoc maltreatment of the Rohingyas and call for inclusive policy action to better support Rohingya asylum-seekers.
While approximately 40,000 Rohingyas are spread across six locations in India, […]