Alcohol Experiences and Concerns of Newly Arrived Migrant Women

Susan K. Lee · Ruqayya Sulaiman-Hill · Sandra Thompson

57 citations0/0 files storedSAGE Open

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Migration, Health and Trauma Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Migration, Identity, and Health

Abstract

Migrant women are under-represented as users of alcohol and other drug (AOD) services. This study examined AOD use by newly arrived women, identifying issues of concern to them. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with 268 migrant women who had arrived in Perth, Western Australia, within the previous 5 years. Almost half were humanitarian entrants. Most women (76%) reported they did not drink alcohol. Of those who did, 10 were drinking at harmful levels and over half reported changes to their drinking patterns since arrival. One fifth of participants (20%) described distressing incidents related to alcohol or drug use by others. Migrant women are concerned by alcoholand drug-related problems, even if they do not drink themselves. Domestic violence and abuse by strangers were concerns that were aggravated by alcohol and drug use. As new migrants often lack strategies to prevent, or deal with alcohol-related misuse, provision of additional information and support is recommended.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 57 citations exist upstream.

References

2001Accessing Hidden and Hard-to-reach Populations: Snowball Research Strategies 2009Defining and measuring acculturation: A systematic review of public health studies with Hispanic populations in the United States 2015Thinking too much: self-generated thought as the engine of neuroticism 2001Domestic violence and alcohol: what is known and what do we need to know to encourage environmental interventions?2009The challenge of acculturation measures: What are we missing? A commentary on Thomson & Hoffman-Goetz 2007Methodological Challenges for National and Multi-sited Comparative Survey Research 2011Sampling challenges in a study examining refugee resettlement 2010Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse Among US Immigrant Populations

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.