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Creating Social Cohesion Through a Common Language
Introduction Positioned at the border between the Middle East and Europe, Turkey has become a country of transit for refugees on their way to the... Read More
Gender in Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: An Ethnographic Study of Northern Uganda
Introduction In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action formally established the undertaking of the integration of gender perspectives in matters of international... Read More
Upcoming Event: ‘We don’t want to give away how you hack the system’: An Emotional History of the Department of Immigration and Child Refugees
Dr Jordy Silverstein explores what can be learnt about the place of child refugees in Australian policy history. Presented by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute... Read More
Can Uganda’s global refugee-assisting image subsist in a possible shift in political regimes?
Uganda’s legacy of accommodating forcibly displaced people dates back to pre-independence when our British colonial masters offered refuge to 7,000 prisoners of war in 1942... Read More
Afghan Diaspora in Pakistan: Healthcare and Education Policy Recommendations
Politically charged philosophical debates concentrate more frequently than ever on the rights of displaced persons. They are ‘moving people’ in both senses of that term:... Read More
Coronavirus Reaches the World’s Most Persecuted People: The Threat of COVID-19 in the Rohingya Refugee Camps
On May 14 2020 the first case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in the biggest refugee camp in the world—Kutupalong, Cox’s Bazar. The refugees... Read More
Fickle nationalism or international co-operation?
On the 23rd of September, two weeks after a fire leveled parts of the Lesvos refugee camp Moria, the EU commission proposed a new pact... Read More
Interview with Ahmad Hakim, Founder and Co-Director of Refugee Voices
Ahmad Hakim is the founder and co-director of Refugee Voices, a new refugee-led community organisation in Australia. It is committed to ensuring that people from... Read More
Our lives matter – Melbourne public housing residents talk about why COVID-19 hits them hard
Our lives matter – Melbourne public housing residents talk about why COVID-19 hits them hard Sandra Carrasco, University of Melbourne; Majdi Faleh, University of Melbourne,... Read More
The Model Host: The Global North’s Convenient Guide to the International Refugee Burden-Sharing Regime
This article argues that the ‘model host’ narrative is a Northern tool to further perpetuate unequal distributions of global power within the international refugee ‘burden-sharing’... Read More