‘Migrants, even today, even in the most developed countries, enjoy an unequal access to mental health care or an access that is dependent on their legal status. This is always unfair, and even more so at times of a global pandemic’
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‘Managing one’s most important relationships remotely, fearing to lose one’s job without enjoying any social security, being isolated, having to adapt to a totally new way of life, & being perceived as a possible threat by people around you are experiences common to many migrants
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'Yet, this does not make them less psychologically vulnerable to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is doubling their stressors’
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@UNMigration’s@Health_IOM#MHPSS website page for more information https://www.iom.int/mental-health-psychosocial-response-and-intercultural-communication … and the recent UN SG’s Policy Brief: COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_policy_brief-covid_and_mental_health_final.pdf …Show this thread
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