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. 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...

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. ROBERT GRUHN & SHAWFIKUL ISLAM This presentation from the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria (ECCV) will outline findings from...

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. REYVI MARINAS This presentation explores an alternative way of looking at the idea and practice of citizenship from the...

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. YARA JARALLAH This presentation will utilise Michel Foucault’s concept of bio-power to demonstrate how life choices can be structured...

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. DZENANA KARTAL, MAURICE EISENBRUCH & DAVID KISSANE War-related traumatic events can affect the mental health of refugees long after...

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. HADEEL ABDELHAMEED & MONICA KEILLY This paper investigates the role of female refugees’ physicality in documenting body persecution. It...

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. EDEN BAKER, JOE SCIGLITANO & MEGAN GOODWIN People seeking asylum are often treated as a homogenous group, defined by...

Refugee Research Online

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

‘Falling through the cracks’ – Community perspectives on asylum seeker and refugee mental health

Becoming Conscious Citizens: Transnational Activism and Collective Identity of the Filipino Diaspora in Australia

Structural violence in the context of settler colonialism: The case of Palestine

Trauma, cultural identity and integration: A psycho-social approach to investigating the mental health of refugees in Australia

Female refugees: Bodies as counter-political testifiers

Australian Red Cross x Portable: “I am a living question mark”