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. 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...

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...

Refugee Research Online

‘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

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

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