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Challenges Faced by the Myanmar Community in South Australia: Recommendations for Improved Access to Services
The Myanmar refugee community in South Australia is one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged social groups in the region. The challenges they face in... Read More
2024 Rural Australians for Refugees National Conference, Victoria, Australia
Australia is renowned for its harsh treatment of refugees and asylum seekers despite being a multicultural country with a long-term refugee resettlement program. In November... Read More
Book Review – Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The First Wave of Post-war Australian Immigrants
“Suffering Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of postwar Australian immigrants”, Peter Brune, Big Sky Publishing, 2023, 436 pages After discovering a box of his... Read More
Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference November 2023 University of Melbourne
Organised and hosted by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, the annual Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference showcases the work of refugee and migration scholars... Read More
Book Review: The World is not Big Enough
Vanessa Russell, Hardie Grant Books, 2021 With some nervousness, this refugee supporter took the plunge in 2001 and did what many others have boldly attempted:... Read More
Book review: The Refugee System: a Sociological Approach – Rawan Arar and David Scott Fitzgerald
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... Read More
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention: care and cruelty in Australia’s asylum seeker prisons – Michelle Peterie
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... Read More
Book Review: Acts of Cruelty – Aileen Crowe
“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... Read More
Hello from new editor – Phillipa Bellemore
Hello, my name is Phillipa Bellemore, and I am excited to join the RRO team as an editor. I am a sociologist and my special... Read More
What Have We Become?: The UK Begins the Offshore Processing of People Seeking Asylum
“What has become of us when it is we who now commit such crimes?”. The Australian novelist Richard Flanagan posed this question in his Foreword... Read More