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
12
Dec
Who Are Palestinian Refugees?
A brief historical account of Israeli and Palestinian conflict The Palestinian and Israeli conflict has been ongoing since the 1800s. Initially, the migration of European Jews to Palestine did not cause conflict, but after the holocaust, more European Jews were of the opinion that they needed their own country. This caused the influx of European... Read More
4
Dec
Book Review: “The Mess We’re In – Managing the Refugee Crisis”
Andrew Bennetts, “The Mess We’re In – Managing the Refugee Crisis”, Trabagem Publishing, Camberwell 2017, 400 pages (available from Amazon and Booktopia) Moved by the suffering and policy dilemmas of the European refugee crisis of 2015, this Melbourne business analyst took a sabbatical from corporate consulting to understand the refugee issue. He felt his standard... Read More
20
Nov
Rohingya Refugee Deportation: Locating “Voluntary Repatriation” between National Security and Political Expediency
The hastiness demonstrated by the Government of India (GoI) in deporting 7 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar has once again established inherent discriminatory practices pursued by the GoI towards refugees based on religion with utter disregard to the Constitution of India, Supreme Court of India, international law, jus cogens and customary international law. Such an action... Read More
6
Nov
Can Opposing Groups Agree To Disagree?
How many migrants should we take? Is our border protection adequate? Are detention centres warranted? Australian society continues to be fragmented in attitudes towards these pressing issues. But is there a way to encourage civil discussion between opposing groups? The world is facing a migration crisis, with a record 69 million people displaced worldwide.... Read More
23
Oct
Making Connections: a mentoring program for university students with a refugee background
Many refugees and people seeking asylum are keen to study at university to enable pathways to meaningful work, but face barriers in navigating the university system. These students can be intimidated by the impersonal nature of accessing online information about their courses and prefer personal contact (Baker, Ramsay, Irwin & Miles, 2018). In response to... Read More
22
Oct
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Annual Conference
‘Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world’ – Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Annual Conference, 23 Nov 2018 Foreign policy bears directly on refugee policy. Today both policy agendas are feeling the twin pressures of nationalism and globalisation, and the long-prevailing rules based order is now contested. What does this mean for... Read More