25
Apr

Expanding Humanitarian Parole

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In January of 2023, the Biden Administration formally announced its new approach to border enforcement and immigration policy. Facing the inevitable end of Title 42, the White House issued both a carrot and a stick: the expansion of legal pathways to enter the United States at its southern border, accompanied by harsher consequences for individuals...
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21
Mar

The Role of the Environment and Objects for Refugees and its Implications for Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Approach

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“And as the sun sets in the West, You will shed a tear, Longing to be back in the East. Immigrant.” Nishant Akhtar (Akhtar, 1999, pp.20) This poignant quote delicately articulates the losses that migrants experience when leaving their home country. Being forced to leave one’s homeland entails an immeasurable amount of pain and is...
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13
Mar

Book review: The Refugee System: a Sociological Approach – Rawan Arar and David Scott Fitzgerald

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The Refugee System: a Sociological Approach, Rawan Arar and David Scott Fitzgerald, Polity Press, 2023, 316 pages US researchers Arar and Fitzgerald are promoting a sociological “systems approach” to refugee research as an alternative to what they call the prevailing “siloed” approach by lawyers, legal and other academics, and government/organisational professionals. They believe the mitigation...
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13
Mar

Why Cultural Contextualization Matters: Books Unbound’s program with Rohingya girls in the world’s largest refugee camp

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The Rohingya Crisis The Rohingya are an ethnic minority from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Like many other ethnic groups in Myanmar, they have been victims of religious persecution and genocide by the Burmese military. For years, the diaspora has grown as Rohingya flee to neighboring countries for safety and opportunity. In August 2017, an outbreak of...
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28
Dec

Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention: care and cruelty in Australia’s asylum seeker prisons – Michelle Peterie

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Michelle Peterie, Bristol University Press, 2022, 176 pages With the UK and others competing to become the least attractive destination for refugees and asylum seekers who arrive by sea, the Australian approach of indefinite mandatory detention, offshore processing, and third country resettlement has been praised. But for those detained by the Australian government in its...
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28
Nov

Book Review: Acts of Cruelty – Aileen Crowe

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“Acts of Cruelty: Australia’s Immigration Laws and experiences of people seeking protection after arriving by plane”, Aileen Crowe, Palaver, an imprint of Ethica Projects Pty Ltd, 2022, 228 pages Franciscan nun Aileen Crowe PhD is one of Michelle Peterie’s visitors to Australian onshore detention centres, with her decades of work for marginalised people in Australia...
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