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After a tumultuous 2017 election and six months of political uncertainty, Germany finally has a government. The so-called “grand coalition” made up of the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), its right-wing sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), will govern Germany for the next four years. At the centre of...

On 18 October 2015 police found 30-year-old Khodayar Amini dead in his car in Dandenong Victoria. Moments prior to taking his life, he made a call to two refugee advocates in Perth and said ‘I can’t stay, I can’t stay” and ‘the immigration is killing me’. A subsequent coronial inquest found finding was he had...

After the Vietnam War, Vietnamese represented one of the twentieth century’s largest movements of refugees. From 1976 to 1990, over 500,000 Vietnamese were resettled all over the world. Facebook has since facilitated the development of the Vietnamese communities on-line who reunite in real time based on their identity as former refugees. With reference to a...

The Hijab in the West: A Negotiation of Identity, exclusion/inclusion for refugee Muslim Women in Australia A handful of researchers have tried to understand the dramatic challenges to gender presentation of self of veiled or Hijabi migrant Muslim women in western society. The Hijab is a headscarf worn by Muslim women and it is the...

As a History teacher in an inner London school, there is a huge amount of diversity between students’ backgrounds, beliefs, religions and traditions. Something that as a teacher I thrive off, and use in my reflective practice to address historical and cultural misconceptions constantly. With the worsening worldwide political climate, the amount of refugee students...

*This contribution is provided by an anonymous author* People used to describe me as a dreamer. I am a dreamer in the sense that I dreamed one day I will find a cure for serious diseases, and I ended up working on colon cancer research at a prominent Australian University. There is a little story behind all...

As a party to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (henceforth “the Refugee Convention”), Australia is obliged to refrain from sending “refugees” as defined therein to places where they would face the risk of persecution. Australia is also a party to the Convention against Torture and the International Covenant...

According to statistics by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), by mid-2017 more than 65 million people had been forced to leave their homes due to conflict, disaster or poverty. A small fraction of them, about 14,000 people, have come to Indonesia seeking for international protection. Without a normative framework and the institutional...

The number of North Korean secondary migrants from South Korea has grown markedly in the last 10 years. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and participatory observation conducted between 2012 and 2017, this article explores the motivations for North Korean secondary migration and the role of transnational networks in the migration and settlement trajectory....

There is a remarkable convergence in the findings of published studies in identifying a consistent profile of risk factors for poor health and wellbeing outcomes for refugee children. Reducing the time held in immigration detention centres may be one of the risk factors most amenable to public health interventions, particularly in reception countries of the west....

Refugee Research Online

Germany’s (not so) grand coalition may cause ripple effects on European refugee policy

Trauma, mental health and the fast track assessment caseload

The Hijab in the West: A Negotiation of Identity

Refugee Engagement with History Education in Inner-city Schools

Securing the Dreams of Scholars at Risk

Australia and Refugees: Protection in Name Only?

Waiting Years On End

North Korean secondary asylum in the UK

The impact of detention on the social–emotional wellbeing of children seeking asylum