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International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma pp 421–438Cite as

The Psychosocial Cost of Seeking and Granting Asylum

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The Convention on Refugees adopted by the United Nations in 1951 represented a milestone in international initiatives to provide protection to displaced persons. Signatories to the Convention agreed to offer sanctuary to those persons fleeing state persecution who held a legitimate fear of returning to their homelands. The Convention and subsequent Protocol (1967) operated effectively over subsequent decades in an era when the number of refugees arriving in Donald countries, mostly originating from the Eastern bloc, was relatively small and when the ideological climate was such that the newcomers were afforded high levels of public compassion and acceptance.

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    Zachary Steel & Derrick Silove

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  2. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

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  3. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia

    Alexander C. McFarlane

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Steel, Z., Silove, D. (2000). The Psychosocial Cost of Seeking and Granting Asylum. In: Shalev, A.Y., Yehuda, R., McFarlane, A.C. (eds) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_31

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