Refugees are more likely to struggle with mental illnesses including anxiety, depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than their Australian-born peers and other migrant young people. The Flinders University led research project aims to discover how they can be better supported.
He came to Australia as an unaccompanied minor, and today he is a criminologist, and director of Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland."Look we always have many rough years, that's always challenging. You know, finding, connecting in the new place. There is cultural shock, different people, there's language barriers. So all those things are challenges that every refugee or migrant who come to the country face.
"Especially someone coming from a refugee background, they bring their own story with them, the story that consists of a lot of trauma and stress. So they have an anxiety, depression, and everything they come here when it is a new land, they don't know their rights here. So definitely, they face significant mental health issues compared to their Australian peers."
They say these influences can significantly impact refugees' ability to integrate into a new country - and can cause cycles of intergenerational trauma."Sometimes they feel themselves as second class citizens. It take a while for them to integrate into the community. Even some of the people face some kind of discrimination from their own community as well, because they come as refugees.
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