Lipson, J. G., and P. A. Omidian, "Afghan Refugee Issues in the U.S. Social Environment" in Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 19, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 110-26.
The article focuses on the physical and mental health challenges faced by Afghan refugees since they began to arrive in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s. Based on an ethnographic study and using quotations from interviews with these newcomers, the article examines stresses caused by the new social contexts within which Afghan refugees find themselves and how they perceive their interactions with American citizens and institutions.
Ondaatje, Michael, Anil's Ghost, Vintage Books, 2000.
In Ondaadtje's fifth novel, the protagonist Anil Tessera is a Sri Lankan forensic anthropologist educated in England and the United States, who returns to work in Sri Lanka. In.....
