The Impact of Armed Conflict in the Country of Origin on Mental Health after Migration to Canada

Autor:	Blair Wheaton, Marie-Pier Joly
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Psychiatry and Mental health Stress exposure Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Armed conflict Gender studies Criminology Psychology Mental health Country of origin
Zdroj:	Society and Mental Health. 5:86-105
ISSN:	2156-8731 2156-8693
DOI:	10.1177/2156869314555582
Popis:	This article examines mental health differences among migrants who emigrated from both armed conflict countries and non–conflict countries versus native-born Canadians. We propose that the impact of armed conflict on mental health depends on defining characteristics of the conflict. Our analysis of migrants to Toronto, Canada, suggests that exposure to major intrastate conflicts have long-term impacts on depression among women and anxiety levels among men after migration. We assess the role of different stages and types of stress proliferation in explaining these differences. Postmigratory chronic stress helps explain differences in depression between migrant women who experienced conflict and both those who did not and Canadian-born women. Conversely, traumatic stress that occurred during the ongoing armed conflict at time of migration helped explain differences in anxiety between migrant men exposed to conflict and both migrant men not exposed and Canadian-born men.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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