Projectdetails

There are indications that young women (15-24 year) from Hindustani, Turkish and Moroccan background suffer from severe mental health problems and more often contemplate and attempt to commit suicide than either autochthonous Dutch young women or young men from their ethnic group.

This project aims to establish whether this is so and to account for the apparent relation between suicidal behaviour, gender and ethnicity. In an epidemiological part it will be established whether they are indeed more suicidal. A qualitative part aims to get insight in the interplay of factors that lead these young women to contemplate suicide.

Artikelen

• K.P. Ewing (1991). Can psychoanalytic theories explain the Pakistani women?. Ethos. pp. 128-60
• Prof. dr. H.E. Lamur (1992). Was zelfmoord de enige uitweg?. Antropologische dimensie van een unieke strafzaak. recht der werkelijkheid. pp. 153-160
• Prof. dr. W.J. Schudel (1998). Suicidaal gedrag en etnisch- Culturele afkomst in Den Haag. Epidemiologisch bulletin. pp. 
• H. Krikke (2000). Suicidal behavior among immigrant girls and immigrant young women. Bureau Public Health Service. pp. 
• Prof. N. Kabeer (2001). Resources, agency, achievements. Reflections on the measurement of women's empowerment. Theory and practice. pp. 42-57
• M. Bag~li (2003). Suicide, Suicide theories, suicide rates, female suicides, Turkish women, gender and suicide patriarchy. An international and interdisciplinary Journal. pp. 60-84
• Dr. C.E.S. Choenni (2003). Hindostanen van Brits-Indische emigranten via Suriname tot burgers van Nederland. Communicatiebureau Sampreshan. . pp. 
• E. Salverda (2004). Laat me los, hou me vast.. Een kwalitatief onderzoek naar Hindostaanse meisjes in Den Haag. . pp. 
• L. Vijayakumar (2004). Altruistic suicide in India. archives of suicide research. pp. 73/80
• Prof. dr. A.J.F.M. Kerkhof (2006). Definitions of suicidal behavior. Crisis , the journal of crisis intervention and suicide prevention. pp. 4-15
• C.L. Hamlin (2006). The return of the native. A cultural and social-psychological Critiqueof Durkheim's suicide based on the Guarani-Kaiowa of Southwestern Brazil. Sociological Theory. pp. 42-57
• J. Smit, A. Kerkhof, S. Saharso, Dr. D.D. van Bergen (2006). Gendered and Cultural Patterns of Suicidal Behaviour. Young Hindustani Immigrant Women in the Netherlands. Crisis Journal of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention. pp. 181-188
• Dr. G. Martin (2007). Ethnocultural aspects of suicide in young people. a systematic literature review part 2: Risk factors and precipitating, agents, and attitudes toward suicide. Suicide and life threatening behavior. pp. 222-237
• Drs. J.M. Garssen (2008). Overlijdensrisico's naar Herkomstgroep. Daling en afnemende verschillen. CBS. pp. 
• E. Janssen (2008). Rates and ethnicity of fatal and non-fatal suicidal behavior in A'dam 1996-2006. Municipal Public Health service of A'dam. pp. 

Proefschriften

• Dr. D.D. van Bergen, Prof. dr. A.J.L.M. van Balkom, Prof. dr. R. Koopmans, Dr. J.H. Smit, Prof. dr. S. Saharso (2009). Suicidal Behavior of Young Migrant Women in The Netherlands. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. promotiedatum 25-6-2009. ISBN 978-90-9024320-7.