Kurdish Refugees' View of Politically Motivated Self-Immolation  

Oleh:

Husni, Mariwan ; Koye, Narmen ; Cernovsky, Zack Z. ; Haggarty, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Transcultural Psychiatry vol. 39 no. 3 (Sep. 2002), page 367–375.
Topik: acculturation; nightmares; refugees; self-immolation
Fulltext: 367TP393.pdf (51.34KB)

Isi artikel

Self-immolation has been used as a political tool by various oppressed groups, including Kurdish refugees. To examine sociodemographiccorrelates of the views on self-immolation, we carried out semi-structured interviews with 54 Kurdish refugees (18 women, 36 men). The majority of these refugees (74.1%) indicated that they did not expect self-immolations to help in obtaining freedom for Kurdistan. Their opinions on this issue were uniform across educational and occupational levels, gender, number of years since escape, and other socio-demographic variables, except age. Younger refugees were less likely to see self-immolation as politically effective. The belief in self-immolation was uncorrelated with the frequency of post-traumatic nightmares dealing with the escape from or persecution in Kurdistan.

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