Refugees’ Mental Health in Relation to Negative Attitudes in Receiving Societies: Theoretical Premises
Refugees’ Mental Health in Relation to Negative Attitudes in Receiving Societies: Theoretical Premises

Author(s): Saskia Schubert, Tobias Ringeisen
Subject(s): Psychology, Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Refugees; Mental Health; Relation; Negative Attitudes; Receiving Societies; Theoretical Premises;
Summary/Abstract: The number of displaced people worldwide has doubled in the last ten years. Due to wars, violent conflicts, and persecution, roughly 82,4 million people were forced to leave their homes and search for a safe place in another country, giving them the status of refugees as defined by the 1951 Refugee Convention (UN General Assembly, 1951). Its geographical location, political and economic stability, security, and standard of living made Europe one of the major destinations for refugees (IOM, 2020), of whom 1.23 million found shelter in Germany (UNHCR, Global Trend Report, 2021). With that, the country hosted the fifth-largest number of refugees across borders worldwide (UNHCR, 2021).

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