31
Jan
‘Falling through the cracks’ – Community perspectives on asylum seeker and refugee mental health
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... Read More
29
Jan
Becoming Conscious Citizens: Transnational Activism and Collective Identity of the Filipino Diaspora in Australia
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... Read More
24
Jan
Structural violence in the context of settler colonialism: The case of Palestine
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... Read More
22
Jan
Trauma, cultural identity and integration: A psycho-social approach to investigating the mental health of refugees in Australia
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... Read More
18
Jan
Female refugees: Bodies as counter-political testifiers
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... Read More
15
Jan
Australian Red Cross x Portable: “I am a living question mark”
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... Read More
10
Jan
“We’re talking about real people”: Audience perceptions of dehumanisation and exclusion in Australian news representations of asylum seekers
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. ASHLEIGH HAW The media is a critical source of information on people seeking asylum and in turn, plays an... Read More
8
Jan
Growing up South Sudanese in Victoria after the Moomba 2016 ‘riot’
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. DIANA JOHNS & NAKIER CHOL Diana and Nakier presented themes that have emerged from a recent research collaboration between Monash... Read More
4
Jan
How Can Refugees Successfully Integrate into the Dutch Labor Market?
During the 2015 and 2016 refugee crisis in Europe, the Netherlands was one of the destinations for refugees from different countries, including Syria and Afghanistan. Most likely, refugees with residence permits will stay in the Netherlands for a long period of time because of the uncertain security situations in their home countries. Therefore, policy makers... Read More
19
Dec
The 2018 RAS Interdisciplinary Conference: A Review
The annual Researchers for Asylum Seekers Interdisciplinary Conference took place at the University of Melbourne in November, 2018. The conference showcased current research on issues facing refugees and asylum seekers and included topics ranging from transnational activism to theatre and from mental health to reflections on ethnographic practice. Prof. Nick Haslam opened the conference with... Read More