Occupational deprivation

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Occupational deprivation

• Refugees Asylum Seekers
• Enabling Occupation

Students Marije Verschuur Miriam Wijermars
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Occupational deprivation

• a state of prolonged preclusion from engagement
• in occupations of necessity and/or meaning due to
  
• factors which stand outside of the control of the
  
• individual.
• Wilcock, A.A. (1998). An occupational perspective
  of health. Thorofare, NJ Slack.
• Whiteford, G. (2000). Occupational deprivation
  Global challenge in the new millennium. British
  Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63(5), 200-204.

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Causes of Occupational Deprivation
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Country

• The Netherlands
• Monarchy
• Democracy
• Abides the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  (UDHR)
• Population 16.335.998 (June 2006)
• Multicultural society

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Population groups at risk of Occupational
Deprivation

• People living on or below the minimal income
  scale.
• Refugees and/or asylum seekers
• Prisoners
• Addicts
• Unemployed

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Chosen group

• Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands.
• Why
• Total 139.353 refugees (refugees 118.189,
  asylum seekers 14.664 and stateless people
  6.500.)
• Hot political item, because of the amount of
  asylum seekers presenting themselves at the Dutch
  immigration services and at refugee camps.
• Lack of occupations in the temporary living area.

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Refugees and Asylum seekers

• Defenitions
• Asylum seeker an alien who for various reasons
  has left his country of origin and requested
  asylum, but for whom it has not yet been
  established whether he fulfils the criteria for
  an asylum residence permit.
• Refugee an asylum seeker who is judged to have
  left his country of origin because he has
  well-founded fears of being persecuted there. A
  refugee fulfils the criteria for an asylum
  residence permit.

• IND (2004). Asylum procedure in the Netherlands

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Asylum procedure
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Project outline
Source www.maisquenada.com/archief09
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Indicators of change

• Our aim is to provide a programme that actualises
  the
• wishes of refugees and/or asylum seekers
  associated with
• self-care, work and play.
• This programme could then be used by therapists
  working
• in occupationally deprived communities, or other
  areas,
• such as hospitals and rehabilitation clinics,
  where refugees
• and/or asylum seekers seek the expertise of the
• occupational therapist.

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Visit refugee camp

• Temporary accommodation.
• Responsibilities/tasks.
• Work related issues.
• Review exact facilities
• Recreation
• Work
• Social activities.

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Interviews

• Who
• Asylum seekers
• Care workers
• What
• Establishing (personal/team) wishes and needs.
• Assessable facilities.
• Willingness to cooperate.
• Why
• Future reference.
• Possible solutions.

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Financing

• Refugee camp
• Another financing organization
• ? extra interview required.

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Detailed plan

• Requirements
• Contribution of
• Camp
• Financing organization
• Care workers.

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Follow-up

• Series of 3 interviews with the asylum seekers.
• ? Changes of the needs reviewed.
• ? Benefits of the occupations assessed.

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Required skills

• Multi-lingual interpreter.
• Possible consequences of fleeing ones country.
• Different frames of reference.
• Availability and weekly office hours.

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Execution

• This project is part of our final thesis caring
  the
• same name as this presentation
• Refugees Asylum Seekers
• Enabling Occupation
• This will be finished in February 2007.

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Students

• Marije Verschuur, 27
• Miriam Wijermars, 26
• Fourth year students occupational therapy at
  Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
• Graduating in April and June 2007.Thesis
  Refugees Asylum Seekers
• Enabling Occupation