Refugee Mental Health and Place

This con­fer­ence will bring togeth­er schol­ars, activists, artists, pol­i­cy mak­ers and peo­ple with lived expe­ri­ence to explore and exam­ine what it means to be a refugee in a par­tic­u­lar place and how this can be rel­e­vant to men­tal health. We imag­ine place as a com­plex domain that can include risk fac­tors such as neigh­bour­hood vio­lence, poor hous­ing con­di­tions and social iso­la­tion or pro­tec­tive and resilience fac­tors such as com­mu­ni­ty ties, gain­ful employ­ment and ther­a­peu­tic poten­tial of green and recre­ation­al spaces. We will seek to under­stand how social, mate­r­i­al, cul­tur­al, envi­ron­men­tal, polit­i­cal and insti­tu­tion­al dimen­sions and char­ac­ter­is­tics of places con­sti­tute and affect refugee men­tal health in a post-migra­tion context.

Find out more about the con­fer­ence pro­gramme and reg­is­ter here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/refugee-mental-health-and-place-conference

A sep­a­rate reg­is­tra­tion link can also be found here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdOuqqj8vGtEmHdVIdYtX31BrzbEO3Bm_

The con­fer­ence is host­ed by the Refugee Men­tal Health and Place net­work in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ESRC Cen­tre for Soci­ety and Men­tal Health and the Depart­ment of Pop­u­la­tion Health Sci­ences at King’s Col­lege London.

Please cir­cu­late the invi­ta­tion widely!

We are look­ing for­ward to see­ing you at the conference!

With best wish­es on behalf of our network,