Place-making and its impact on health and wellbeing among recently resettled refugees in high income contexts: A scoping review

Aryati Yashadhana; Esther Alloun; Nina Serova; Evelyne de Leeuw; Zelalem Mengesha

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103003

Place-making and its impact on health and wellbeing among recently resettled refugees in high income contexts: A scoping review

Aryati Yashadhana, Esther Alloun, Nina Serova, Evelyne de Leeuw, Zelalem Mengesha

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•We identified three aspects of ‘place-making’ relevant to refugee health: material; psychosocial; and structural.
•Place-making is negotiated through refugee agency, processes of inhabitation, and situated encounters, all of which impact health/wellbeing.
•Poor access to safe housing and neighbourhoods, therapeutic leisure and green spaces, and racism worsen mental health among refugees.
•Psychosocial aspects of belonging and strong family, and social/community connections were protective to health/wellbeing.
•Conceptually and methodologically, place-making opens up a more expansive view of refugees' complex lived experiences of resettlement.

Original language	English
Article number	103003
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Health and Place
Volume	81
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103003
Publication status	Published - May 2023
Externally published	Yes

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