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Book Review: “Bridging Troubled Waters – Australia and asylum seekers”
“Bridging Troubled Waters – Australia and asylum seekers”, Tony Ward, Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd, North Melbourne, 2017 Why has refugee policy been so haphazard... Read More
‘Boat people’ and borders: changing political debate on asylum seekers
Since the arrival of the first Vietnamese refugees in the mid-1970s, Australia has maintained a curious fascination with ‘boat people’. Just under 70,000 people have... Read More
Negotiating Dehumanising Experiences of Asylum Seeker Policies in the Australian Community
As the number of refugees and asylum-seekers escalates worldwide, industrialised countries continue to apply increasingly restrictive measures to deter those seeking asylum from entering their... Read More
Courageous Quests: Keats, art and refugees
The great sensualist Romantic poet John Keats arrived in Rome in late 1820 with his friend, painter Joseph Severn. This was not to be a... Read More
Who is anti-migrant? The personality traits behind prejudice
Negative attitudes toward migrant populations and refugees is a popular topic of study among prejudice researchers, with these groups being almost universally maligned in their... Read More
The Experiences of Iraqi Refugee Children’s Education in Australia: Mothers’ Perspectives
Education is a resource that can assist individuals and families to cope with adversity. It is particularly important for relatively recent refugee families because of... Read More
Who volunteers for people seeking asylum? Findings from a survey of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s volunteers
There is a strong tradition of volunteering and giving in Australia (Oppenheimer and Warburton 2014). Recorded volunteer levels have long hovered around a third of... Read More
The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe: The Way Ahead
The contemporary world is fraught with trends directed at the criminalization of international migration (CoM). The modus operandi of migration management is replete with the... Read More
Public attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees
Australian politicians have a long history of using dehumanising language to influence public opinion against people seeking asylum, particularly those arriving by boat (Clark 2013,... Read More
How Can We Best Understand Public Reactions Towards Migrant Groups?
Ravini Abeywickrama (PhD candidate) Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Consider the concept of migration from an evolutionary perspective, as detailed... Read More