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/Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference – Tuesday November 19, 2019
Image: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Zam Zam camp outside El Fasher, Sudan (United Nations Photo) On Tuesday 19 November, the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, together with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, will present a one-day conference exploring migration, refugee studies and statelessness. This event builds on the tradition of the Researchers for Asylum... Read More
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Aug
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The SEREDA Project: A Reflection on Time and Stories
The Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham is leading the SEREDA Project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, Volkswagen Stiftung and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond through the Europe and Global Challenges Initiative. Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) against refugees is a global challenge that demands urgent attention given the scale of forced displacement, and a problem at the nexus of... Read More
24
Jul
Book Review: ‘Syrian Women Refugees: Personal Accounts of Transition’ – Dr. Ozlem Ezer
“Journeys come in many forms: planned, unplanned, short, long, tiring, comforting, illuminating, legal, undocumented, on foot, by boat, with or without someone waiting at the other end” (Ezer, 2019: 1).” Dr Ozlem Ezer has worked and travelled through several different countries as a scholar, writer, educator, translator, and activist. She specialises in women’s and gender... Read More
16
Jul
A Review of “Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty and the Case of Australia”
Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia Eve Lester, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The state’s assertion of “absolute sovereignty” as the dominant value over any presumed right to migrate from abroad is generally accepted in public discourse, but only dates from the last hundred years or so, according to Eve Lester.... Read More
3
Jul
Refugees’ Right to Physical Security: What does it Practically Mean?
The Law When one reads the term “right to physical security”, a basic understanding of what it means usually flirts with the idea of safety. However, in the legal world, it is always a safer option to have a well-defined right, as then one knows what a right entails and when it is being infringed.... Read More
20
Jun
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Book Review: ‘The Butterfly Refugee’ – Roger Ibn Tyrone
Refugee week (16-22 June, 2019) marks the timely release of the ‘The Butterfly Refugee’, a children’s book and poem written and illustrated by Roger Ibn Tyrone and published by Minaret Mountain Books. The book is recommended for children and adults, aged 8 years and over. ‘The Butterfly Refugee’ offers a poetic narrative of a little... Read More
19
Jun
Paris? Melbourne? Public housing doesn’t just look the same, it’s part of the challenges refugees face
Whether in Melbourne or in Paris, African immigrants face social and cultural challenges, which public housing can either add to or help overcome. The public housing estates built in cities around the world since the first public housing was built in 19th-century London have long been home to the very vulnerable, including refugees and immigrants.... Read More
5
Jun
UN Global Compact on Refugees: Developing an Australian National Action Plan
The Global Compact on Refugees, endorsed in late 2018, has introduced a new dynamic into efforts internationally to improve burden and responsibility sharing for large-scale refugee movements. As an intended blueprint for fairer, more predictable and sustainable international cooperation, it contains suggested activities for States, such as Australia, to consider including in regional and national... Read More
22
May
Book Review: ‘Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System’ – Dr. Vicky Canning
Dr. Victoria Canning is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom (UK) who specialises in examining the intersection of gender and displacement. Her book ‘Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System‘ offers an in-depth exploration of how the British asylum system contributes to the re-traumatisation of women... Read More
8
May
A Review of “Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World”
Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World Daniel Ghezelbash, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The “refuge lost” in the book’s title is literally true in President Trump’s America. Since he took office, US decisions have eliminated almost half of the world’s total resettlement allocation for refugees; a White House insider quotes one of his top... Read More