对处于不安全移民状况的人士的身体暴力的普遍性:系统性审查和元分析
Alexandria Innes1, Sophie Carlisle2, Hannah Manzur3
1Violence and Society Centre, School of Policy and Global Affairs, City, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
PloS one
|March 27, 2024
概括
身体暴力影响了31%以上的移民处于不安全的地位,性别和有证件与无证件个人之间的患病率相似. 这一系统性审查突出了对弱势群体的重大全球健康问题.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 移民研究 移民研究
背景情况:
- 对处于不安全移民状况的个人进行的身体暴力是一个关键的全球卫生问题.
- 了解人际,社区和国家暴力的普遍性对于有针对性的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 系统地审查和对现有证据进行元分析,以了解对经历不安全移民身份的人士的身体暴力的普遍性.
- 根据性别,就业状况,地理区域和不安全状态类型等因素来确定暴力流行率的变化.
主要方法:
- 一项对31项涉及25997名移民的回顾性横截面研究的系统审查和元分析.
- 搜索了多个数据库 (Embase,社会政策和实践等) 对于2000年1月至2023年5月期间发表的研究.
- 采用随机效应模型进行元分析,并进行子组分析以探索异质性.
主要成果:
- 在不安全的移民中,身体暴力的总体患病率估计为31.16%.
- 患病率在男性 (35.30%) 和女性 (27.78%) 之间没有显著差异,也没有在无证人员 (29.13%) 和难民/寻求庇护者 (33.29%) 之间有显著差异.
- 在亚洲 (56.01%),在移民旅程 (32.93%) 和亲密伴侣暴力 (29.10%) 期间观察到的患病率最高.
结论:
- 身体暴力是各种不安全的移民状况中个人的重要关注点.
- 调查结果表明,与其他不安全的身份相比,无证身份并不意味着更高的暴力风险.
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