Archive - Refugee Research Online

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. PHILLIPA BELLEMORE Refugee mentoring provides a pathway for relationships between refugees, people seeking asylum and their local community. Relational...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. ANH NGUYEN Digital access and citizenship has been the game changer for refugees and asylum seekers in diaspora. Refugees...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. ROSE ISER In the context of the changing dynamics of Australian multiculturalism, this paper explores the existing cultural and...

When the author Richard Flanagan described Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker currently held on Manus Island, as “a great Australian writer”, he turned tired cliché into a pointed question: what makes an “Australian” writer? Flanagan was writing in the foreword to Boochani’s startling book No Friend But the Mountains, which won the $100,000 Victorian...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. MARK JUSTIN RAINEY This paper reflects on the emotional landscape of ethnographic research undertaken with refused, male asylum seekers living destitute...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. JOHN VAN KOOY Australia’s immigration regime is carefully managed to meet the country’s demographic and labour market needs. Refugees...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. JACQUELINE MILLNER Care critically explores how care in its many forms represents an alternative ethics to neo-liberalism. It will...

Topic: The Future of International Solidarity in Global Refugee Protection Speaker: Professor Obiora Okafor, UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity Date/time: 14 February 2019, 6pm-7.30pm. Venue: 124 Jolimont Rd, East Melbourne VIC 3002, Australia Registration: https://aiiavic.tidyhq.com/public/schedule/events/22022-the-future-of-international-solidarity-in-global-refugee-protection The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights failed to enshrine the right to asylum, speaking only of a...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. STEPHANIE BECKWITH This presentation presents the findings of ‘Free from Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)’, a pilot research...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at our annual postgraduate interdisciplinary conference on refugee and forced migration research, hosted in November 2018 at The University of Melbourne. SARAH STRAUVEN My doctoral research project focuses on Australian grassroots community initiatives whereby citizens and people with refugee experience...

Refugee Research Online

Refugee Mentoring

Game change: Engaging refugees in #digital_diaspora

Second-generation African Australian students from refugee backgrounds in the classroom and at home

Behrouz Boochani’s literary prize cements his status as an Australian writer

In search of respect: Refused asylum seekers and the emotional landscapes of ethnographic research

Situated welcome: Refugees’ inclusion and settlement experiences in Australian neighbourhoods

Feminism, art and ethics in neo-liberal times

Event: The Future of International Solidarity in Global Refugee Protection

Free from Violence Against Women and Girls: Voices of women seeking asylum who have experienced SGBV

Citizen initiatives as places of preferred identity formation