This paper was co-produced by a mental health special interest group as part of the Migrant and Refugee Health Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology. The paper started as a summer studentship where an undergraduate nursing student, Buster Brennan, worked alongside Tula Brannelly to look at the research about what supports mental health and wellbeing of refugees. We were thinking about how resettlement has its own stresses on top of the kinds of traumas that refugees are likely to experience through forced displacement. We looked at the research literature to find out some themes that were common to that research. The next stage of the paper was to bring those initial ideas to a special interest group where we worked on the paper to contextualise the findings in Aotearoa New Zealand. The group added the background to refugee experience, and helped to add more literature, and make a call for the responses that are acceptable to refugee communities.
