The Decolonizing Socioeconomic & Mental Health Views about Refugees is one of ten collaborative networks. This network is a collaboration between Drs. Idia Thurston, Yassin Mohammed Yesuf (from Ethiopia), and Ronald Kabbiri (from Uganda) to address the colonial narrative surrounding refugees in the social sciences. By shifting the focus from an illness-based perspective to one that highlights wellness, resilience, and growth, we aim to redefine how the experiences of African refugees are published and disseminated.
This project is a systematic review exploring existing research on what is known about the well-being of African refugees in and out of Africa. We are specifically interested in the well-being components examined, which part of the world focused on the wellbeing of African refugees, what studies used western based biomedical models of mental health, and what studies used African centered models of mental health.