Lynette Patricia Vromans

TL;DR: While exposure to traumatic events impacted on participants’ mental well-being, post-migration living difficulties had greater salience in predicting mental health outcomes of people from Burmese refugee backgrounds.

TL;DR: The authors used qualitative data collected from refugees from Burma now settling in Australia, and emphasized the need for a more reflexive and expansive account of both suffering and hope within refugee narratives using a conceptual framework which acknowledges the importance of the connections between the micro individual experience and the macro, socio-political context.

TL;DR: This paper used qualitative data collected among refugees from Burma now settling in Australia, focusing on the need for a more reflexive and expansive account of both suffering and hope within refugee narratives, and narrated these narratives within a conceptual framework which acknowledges the importance of the connections between the micro, individual experience and the macro, socio-political context.

TL;DR: The Multidimensional Loss Scale (MLS) as discussed by the authors represents the first instrument designed specifically to index Experience of Loss Events and Loss Distress across multiple domains (cultural, social, material, and intrapersonal) relevant to refugee settlement.

TL;DR: In this paper , a mixed methods research design aimed to understand the complexities of how 104 refugee-background women experienced their social networks in the first few months of resettlement in Australia and found that the impact of post-migration living difficulties that represented social stressors (worry about family, loneliness and boredom, feeling isolated, and racial discrimination) on women's mental health outcomes in the months following resettlement.