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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Groups:
    Afghanis
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    Bosnian
    Burmese
    Ethiopian
    Hispanic
    Hmong
    Muslim

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    Somali
    Sudanese
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Cultural Aspects of:

    Advance Directives
    AIDS

    Books
    Childbearing
    Cultural Competency
    Death & Dying
    Dental Care
    Diabetes
    Domestic Violence
    Epilepsy
    Ethnogerontology
    Ethnography
    Ethnopharmacology
    Female Circumcision
    Food
    Hospice
    International Nursing    
    Khat 

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    Tuberculosis
    Traditional Medicine
    Transcultural Nursing
    Truth Disclosure
    Women and Children


DICTIONARIES & GLOSSARIES

CULTURAL PROFILES

CULTURE & HEALTH WEBSITES

REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT HEALTH DATABASES

REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT HEALTH POLICY

MULTILINGUAL HEALTH MATERIALS

ORGANIZATIONS/OFFICES

REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT STATISTICS

LIBRARIES WITH ETHNIC COLLECTIONS

RESETTLEMENT AGENCIES

CONTACT INFORMATION


 
Offices & Organizations for Refugees & Immigrants

AILA.org- American Immigration Lawyers Association. The professional organization for immigration lawyers. Retrieved September 27, 2004, from http://www.aila.org

AMA- American Medical Association. The official site for physicians. Retrieved September 27, 2004, from http://www.ama-assn.org

ARC- American Refugee Committee. ARC is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization that is focused on the survival, health, and well-being of refugees and displaced people affected by the war. Retrieved September 29, 2004, from http://www.archq.org

BRIA- Bureau of Refugee and Immigration Affairs. BRIA is a state refugee coordinator and represents New York state in the National refugee resettlement program. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.otda.state.ny.us/otda/bria/bria_default.htm

CWS- Church World Service. CWS works world wide to meet human needs and foster self-reliance for all whose way is hard. Retrieved October 06, 2004, from http://www.churchworldservice.org

Division of Immigration Health Services. Promotes global health through the delivery of primary to care to undocumented migrants. Retrieved March 31, 2005 from http://inshealth.hrsa.gov/

DWD- Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. DWD's primary responsibilities include providing job services, training and employment assistance to people looking for work and also helps employers to find workers to fill current job openings. Retrieved October 06, 2004, from http://www.dwd.state.wi.us

ER/SM- Emergency Response/Service Ministries: Church of the Brethren. Affiliates for refugee resettlement and sponsorship. Retrieved September 27, 2004, from http://www.brethren.org/genbd/ersm

Health and Culture. This web site contains web links, bibliographical resources and news items concerned with the role of culture factors in health care settings. Retrieved September 27, 2004, from http://health.csuohio.edu/healthculture/index.htm

Immigration & Refugees: Church World Services. This web site contains links to refugee reports, general information and advocacy, immigration services, US government sites, programs for torture survivors and resources by region. Retrieved August 05, 2004, from http://www.churchworldservice.org/Immigration/links.html

IRSA- Immigration and Refugee Services of America. It is the nation's oldest and largest non-sectarian network of nonprofit organizations serving immigrants, refugees, and other foreign-born people worldwide. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.irsa-uscr.org

InterAction. It is the nation's largest coalition of relief, development and refugee agencies. 159 member organizations have headquarters in 24 states, and millions of supporters nationwide. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.interaction.org

IERHB-International Emergency and Refugee Health Branch. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved September 01, 2004, from http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ierh/default.htm

Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.
The Mohawk Valley Resource Centre for Refugees website for Utica, NY. sponsored by the Lutheran Immigrant & Refugee Service. "We promote the well-being of culturally diverse individuals and families within our community by welcoming our new neighbors, refugees and immigrants, and by providing individual and community-centered activitiesdesigned to create opportunity and facilitate understanding." Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.mvrcr.org

The National Women's Health Information Center. (2002). Cultural responsiveness. Retrieved April 26, 2005, from http://www.4woman.gov/HealthPro/world/other.htm

NNIRR- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. A national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights, and labor organizations and activists. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.nnirr.org

Office of Global Health Affair- U. S. DHHS. Offers global health affairs reports about refugees. Retrieved September 29, 2004, from http://www.globalhealth.gov/oirhrefugeehealth.shtml

Office of Refugee Resettlement. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families-describes their services. Retrieved September 29, 2004, from http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/opa/facts/orr.htm

Refugees International- USA. Advocacy/ lobbying/ campaigning, Refugees and IDPs. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.refugeesinternational.org

ReliefWeb. ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Retrieved October 20, 2004, from http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

SAR- Scholars at Risk Network (New York University). SAR is an international network of univerisities and colleges working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from
http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu

SEARAC- South East Asia Resource Action Center.SEARC is a national organization which helps South East Asian regfugess. This web site contians informations on Succesful New American Project (SNAP) one of the many prgrams of SEARAC. Retrieved August 06, 2004, from http://www.searac.org/snap.html

Society for Medical Anthropology. Provides links to anthropology and other social science journals as well as medical and public health publications. Retrieved May 27, 2005, from http://www.medanthro.net/academic/index.html

SUNY Upstate Medical University. Cultural Diversity Resources. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.upstate.edu/uhpated/multi.shtml

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
. REFWORLD sections contains bibliographies on refugee children and refugee women. Also provides "Background Papers on Refugees and Asylum Seekers" by country of origin. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

USCIS- U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services. This site provides information to introduce the reader to USCIS within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Retrieved October 28, 2004, from http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm

USCR- U.S. Committee for Refugees. The USCR helps refugees get the protection and assistance they need to survive. Retrieved October 18, 2004, from http://www.refugees.org

VOLAGS- Voluntary Resettlement Agencies. VOLAGS helps deliver refugee reception and placement services. Retrieved October 06, 2004, from http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/hcp/scvolags.html

WHO-World Health Organization. The objective of WHO is to help people around the world attain the highest possible level of health. Retrieved October 18, 2004 from http://www.who.int/en

 

 

 



©Jacquelyn Coughlan, November 2004
 

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