MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4413300387 · doi:10.1080/14427591.2025.2538724

Community-based groups for reducing occupational deprivation among asylum seekers, refugees, and other forcibly displaced populations: A scoping review

2025· article· en· W4413300387 on OpenAlexaff
Méabh Bonham Corcoran, Salam Jabbour, Frédérique Vallières, Sarah Quinn

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Occupational Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicOccupational Therapy Practice and Research
Canadian institutionsTrinity College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRefugeeOccupational scienceDisplaced personInternally displaced personPsychologyCriminologySociologyOccupational therapyGerontologyPolitical scienceMedicinePsychiatryLaw

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Introduction The global rise in forced displacement has led to an increase in occupational injustices among individuals seeking refuge, often due to restrictions imposed by government policies. Involvement in community groups has been identified as a means of inclusion, highlighting the broader role of communities in this context.Aim This scoping review aimed to identify the types of community-based groups and their potential to reduce experiences of occupational deprivation for asylum seekers, refugees, and other forcibly displaced populations.Method The scoping review followed a five-stage framework. Seven databases were searched, encompassing articles published from January 2000 to January 2023.Results A three-stage search strategy yielded 1,355 results. Following screening, 15 studies met the inclusion criteria. Findings indicated that community-based groups included community development projects (n = 5), community gardens (n = 4), sports-based community groups (n = 3), and community creative art groups (n = 3). Each demonstrated ability to enhance a sense of belonging and well-being for asylum seekers, refugees, and other forcibly displaced populations through engaging them in diverse occupations alongside local community members.Conclusion Occupational participation and engagement play a vital role in the resettlement process. Findings from occupationally focused studies provide evidence with which to challenge potentially oppressive systems by engaging with governments, non-governmental organisations, allied healthcare professions, and communities to support the inclusion of asylum seekers, refugees, and other forcibly displaced populations.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.055

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.005
Bibliometrics0.0140.011
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0040.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.215
GPT teacher head0.562
Teacher spread0.348 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

Quick stats

Citations1
Published2025
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueJournal of Occupational ScienceSame topicOccupational Therapy Practice and ResearchFrench-language works237,207