Beswick, Stephanie. "If You Leave Your Country You Have No Life!" Rape, Suicide, and Violence: The Voices of Ethiopian, Somali, and Sudanese Female Refugees in Kenyan Refugee Camps." Northeast African Studies 8.3 (2001). Link to Article
Keyword: rape, suicide, violence, sexual violence, mental health, physical security, Kenyan, Somali, Sudanese, female, women, refugees
This paper gives voices to women from three conflict zones-Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan-who are residing in Kenyan refugee camps up to 2011. The author observes that women fleeing conflicts face equally violence trauma in foreign lands commonly subjected to rapes, beatings and murder. The author attributes these attacks to the changes in the relationships between women and men of the same country in foreign land, as well as the collapse of legal and societal rules and laws that prevail in the home country.
Halcon, Linda L., Cheryl L. Robertson and Karen A. Monsen. "Evaluating Health Realization for Coping Among Refugee Women." Journal of Loss and Trauma 15.5 (2010): 408-425. Link to Article
keyword: health, realization, coping, refugee, women
This study tests the feasibility, accessibility and acceptability of a strength-based, community-delivered intervention with Somali and Ethiopian women refugees.
Jaranson, James M. , James Butcher, Linda Halcon, David Robert Johnson, Cheryl Robertson, Kay Savik, Marline Spring, and Joseph Wastermeyer. "Somali and Oromo Refugees: Correlates of Torture and Trauma History." American Journal of Public Health 94.4 (2004) 591-598. Link to Article
keyword: Somali, Oromo, torture, Trauma, health, mental, physical, torture
This study characterizes Somali and Ethiopian Oromo refugees in Minnesota to determine the prevalence of torture and associate and associated problems. The methods this study uses includes a comprehensive questionnaire that samples 1,134 participants measuring torture techniques, traumatic events, and social, physical and psychological problems, including PTSD. The study found that torture prevalence ranged from 25%-69% depending on ethnicity and gender. Torture survivors had more health problems.
Kokanovic, Renata , Christopher Doric, Ella Butler, Helen Herrman, and Jane Gunn. "Lay Accounts of Depression amongst Anglo-Australian residents and East African refugees." Social Science & Medicine 66.2 (2008): 454-466. Link to Article
Keyword: depression, mental health, Anglo-Australian residents, East African refugees, cross cultural
This article compares distress from Anglo-Australian, Ethiopian ad Somali communities in Australia describing commonalities and divergences in understanding of depression. 62 Anglo-Australian and 30 Somali and Ethiopians participated in focus groups and individual interviews. The study finds that Anglo-Australian convey depression as an individual experience and is socially isolating, while accounts from Somali and Ethiopian refugees consider family and border socio political events viewing depression as a collective experience.
Markos, Kibret. "The Treatment of Somali Refugees in Ethiopia under Ethiopian and International Law." International Journal of Refugee Law 9.3 (1997): 365. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: Somali, refugees, Ethiopia, international, law
This article demonstrates the gap between the standards set in international refugee law and those in a national level, and the legal and practical constrains this gap can be attributed to using the case of Ethiopia. The article provides an overview of the international refugee instruments ratified by Ethiopia, discusses the challenges in the treatment of the Somali refugees in Ethiopia, and shows that a special attention needs to be paid to the causes of refugee flight to address the issue.
Pickering, Sharon. "Gender, Securitization and Transit: Refugees Women and the Journey to the EU." Journal of Refugee Studies 27.3 (2014)338-359. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: gender, women, securitization , transit, refugees, Journey, EU, irregular migration
This study offers an account of the implications of securitization policies of the EU on female migrants and argues that the EU policy is blind to the lived realities of those who seek protection in the EU, and thus, the EU urgently needs to address the structural contradictions exacerbating violence experienced by refugee women in transit.
Ransford, Danso. "From 'There' to 'Here': An investigation of the initial settlement experiences of Ethiopian and Somali refugees in Toronto." GeoJournal 56.1 (2002): 3-14. Link to Article
Keyword: resettlement, settlement, experiences, Ethiopian, Somali, refugees, Toronto, Canada
This paper examines the lives of resettled refugees in Canada, in particular those originating from Somalia and Ethiopia. The study finds that, upon arrival, most of these refugees encounter considerable difficulties during the initial stages of resettlement in Canada. They face social and economic exclusion that can lead to mental health and suicidal thoughts.