Many refugees carry a distinct type of trauma: ‘moral injury’
Trauma is usually fear-based, but refugees are also burdened by witnessing moral violations and their own ethical dilemmas
by Angela Nickerson & Philippa Specker
Philippa Specker is a postdoctoral research fellow and clinical psychologist at the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, Australia.
Written by Philippa Specker