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Integration is one of the hot topics in the debate around durable solutions for refugees, particularly in resettlement. With forced displacement at an unprecedented level since World War II, protection responses for the around 68 million displaced people, particularly for the 25.4 million refugees, are required. Despite discussions between policy makers, academics, refugee advocates and...

What should the healthcare community do when faced with human rights abuses? Should we expose these violations and advocate for change, using our relatively powerful positions to influence the general public and those in power? While most would feel a sense of responsibility to do so, how we should go about this and what we...

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. HALA NASR Women-only safe spaces are increasingly recommended and implemented as part of gender-based violence responses in humanitarian and...

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. ANDREW SIMON-BUTLER The term ‘sexual and gender-based violence’ (SGBV) has gained prominence in international human rights documents and within...

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. HANNE WORSOE Since 2011, about 36,000 people have sought safety in Australia by means of a people-smuggling boat. Policies...

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. CAITLIN DOUGLASS Australia’s national drug and alcohol policies identify culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities as priority populations for...

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...

Refugee Research Online

Vital Volunteers and Australian Resettlement

Can the Australian Healthcare Community be more effective in its Response to Immigration Detention?

‘Whose voice is louder?’ Safe spaces as responses to gender-based violence in refugee settings

Defining sexual and gender-based violence in the refugee context

Women’s lives as asylum-seekers, in limbo, in Australia

Exploring alcohol and other drug use among culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Victoria

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