Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Start Over

Filtering by: Creator Dowhower, Daniel P. Language Arabic [ara]

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Creator:

Eiwaz, Massarra Adnan

Abstract:

Distress among resettled refugees in the U.S. consistently reflects refugees’ experiences of discrimination, re-traumatization, gaps in healthcare services, and disrupted expectations and lived-realities. This thesis aims to fill a critical need for ethnographic studies investigating how recent anti-immigrant, -Muslim, and -Arab rhetoric and policies combine with chronic gaps in services...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

in which a person’s ability to cope is dramatically undermined” (Medley, 2012; p.113). Childhood