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Around 1 in 3 people with insecure migration status report experiencing interpersonal, community and state physical violence, with almost as many experiencing intimate partner violence, per global meta-analysis

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Prevalence of physical violence against people in insecure migration status: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Around 1 in 3 people with insecure migration status report experiencing interpersonal, community and state physical violence, with almost as many experiencing intimate partner violence, per global meta-analysis.

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Around 1 in 3 people with insecure migration status report experiencing interpersonal, community and state physical violence, with almost as many experiencing intimate partner violence, per global meta-analysis

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0300189

Article Title: Prevalence of physical violence against people in insecure migration status: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Author Countries: UK

Funding: All authors (AI, SC, HM, EC, JC, NL) were supported by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (Violence, Health and Society; MR-VO49879/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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