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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... Read More
Why Europe shouldn’t follow Australia’s lead on asylum seekers
Australia’s harsh asylum policies have been touted as a possible solution to Europe’s so-called refugee crisis. Politicians in the UK, France, Holland, Denmark, Austria and... Read More
We cannot rely morally on ‘deterrence’ to justify our harsh refugee policies
Tony Coady, University of Melbourne When debate about refugees ascends from slogan swapping (“stop the boats”, “bring them here”) to specific reasoning, there seems only... Read More
Trauma, mental health and the fast track assessment caseload
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... Read More
Vietnamese Refugee Facebook Reunions
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... Read More
Mental Health Screening Tool For Asylum Seekers And Refugees: The STAR-MH
There is no extant brief and sensitive mental health screening tool for asylum seekers and new refugees (ASR) designed to be administered by non-mental-health trained... Read More
‘Boat people’ and borders: changing political debate on asylum seekers
Since the arrival of the first Vietnamese refugees in the mid-1970s, Australia has maintained a curious fascination with ‘boat people’. Just under 70,000 people have... Read More
Courageous Quests: Keats, art and refugees
The great sensualist Romantic poet John Keats arrived in Rome in late 1820 with his friend, painter Joseph Severn. This was not to be a... Read More
Has the EU really solved its refugee crisis?
Less than two years after the European Union was confronted with an unprecedented influx of refugees, during which over a million people from Syria, Iraq,... Read More
Who volunteers for people seeking asylum? Findings from a survey of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s volunteers
There is a strong tradition of volunteering and giving in Australia (Oppenheimer and Warburton 2014). Recorded volunteer levels have long hovered around a third of... Read More