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In the early days of March I was watching from a distance the situation developing in Greece. A distance that was geographic, myself being away from the country, but also a distance that was emotional, resulting in a sort of incapacity to engage with and respond to the situation. How did all this come to...

This piece was originally published by the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) and has been re-posted with permission from the author. It has been slightly modified for re-publication on Refugee Research Online. Hannah Bradby is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Uppsala University, Sweden and Researcher for the SEREDA Project. Maryam...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at the 2019 Migration, Refugees and Statelessness conference, hosted in November 2019 at The University of Melbourne. Konstantina Keramitsi In Greece, there are still stateless persons who face a number of problems due to the lack of nationality and the absence of...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at the 2019 Migration, Refugees and Statelessness conference, hosted in November 2019 at The University of Melbourne. Jeanine Hourani – Gender and Women’s Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Background: Pre- and post-migration stressors can increase intimate partner violence...

“We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced”, Agus Morales, (Translator Charlotte Whittle), Imagine Books, Watertown, USA, 2019, 271 pages For about ten years to the end of 2018, the Spanish journalist Agus Morales covered the trail of those on the move in a number of countries in Africa, Central America, Europe, the Middle...

EASP Preconference Rethinking and Acting with Refugees: Bridging Between Science and Social Action. Especially since the outbreak of the war in Syria in 2011, the number of asylum seekers and refugees have rapidly increased, and this resulted in a crisis. Politicians and the media like to call this a “refugee crisis” shifting the blame on...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at the 2019 Migration, Refugees and Statelessness conference, hosted in November 2019 at The University of Melbourne. Vincent Jian Liang – Melbourne Graduate School of Education This research project aims to explore the out-of-classroom language and literacy practices of secondary refugee students...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at the 2019 Migration, Refugees and Statelessness conference, hosted in November 2019 at The University of Melbourne. Angela Dew – Deakin University In 2012 the Australian Government streamlined the health waiver for all humanitarian visa applicants meaning that people with disability were...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at the 2019 Migration, Refugees and Statelessness conference, hosted in November 2019 at The University of Melbourne. Holly McCarthy – REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society), Linköping University Australia’s increasingly securitised and exclusionary asylum policy has been legitimated through...

This post forms part of our series in showcasing abstracts of presentations featured at the 2019 Migration, Refugees and Statelessness conference, hosted in November 2019 at The University of Melbourne. Joel Anderson – Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health, and Society, La Trobe University School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University. The rate...

Refugee Research Online

The European Refugee Crisis and the Crisis of Democratic Values

Why has Maryam left Sweden after four years and 3 months?

Protection of stateless persons in Greece

The Interplay Between Different Types of Violence and Their Impact on Refugee Women’s Mental Health

Book Review: “We are not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced” – Agus Morales

EASP Refugee Preconference: Rethinking and Acting with Refugees

Investigating out-of-classroom language and literacy practices of secondary Karen background refugee students

Service provider perspectives on supporting people with disability from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds

Constructed realities: Framing an inclusive multicultural Australia’s exclusion of people seeking asylum

Evidence that the dehumanisation of asylum seekers is linked to support for punitive punishment