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Book Reviews: ‘Manus Days’ by Michael Coates & ‘No Friend but the Mountains’ by Behrouz Boochani
Manus Days – the Untold Story of Manus Island, Michael Coates, Connor Court Publishing, 2018. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, Behrouz... Read More
Book Review: ‘Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: a frank, up-to-date guide by experts’ – Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong
“Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: a Frank, Up-to-date Guide by Experts”, Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong, UNSW Press, 2019, 277 pages This book by legal... Read More
Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference – Tuesday November 19, 2019
Image: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at Zam Zam camp outside El Fasher, Sudan (United Nations Photo) On Tuesday 19 November, the Melbourne Social Equity... Read More
A Review of “Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty and the Case of Australia”
Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia Eve Lester, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The state’s assertion of “absolute sovereignty” as the... Read More
Book Review: ‘The Butterfly Refugee’ – Roger Ibn Tyrone
Refugee week (16-22 June, 2019) marks the timely release of the ‘The Butterfly Refugee’, a children’s book and poem written and illustrated by Roger Ibn... Read More
Paris? Melbourne? Public housing doesn’t just look the same, it’s part of the challenges refugees face
Whether in Melbourne or in Paris, African immigrants face social and cultural challenges, which public housing can either add to or help overcome. The public... Read More
UN Global Compact on Refugees: Developing an Australian National Action Plan
The Global Compact on Refugees, endorsed in late 2018, has introduced a new dynamic into efforts internationally to improve burden and responsibility sharing for large-scale... Read More
Putting Gender on the Agenda in the Refugee “Crisis”
This post was originally published on the Social Sciences Birmingham blog at the University of Birmingham, UK. It has been slightly modified for publication on... Read More
Vital Volunteers and Australian Resettlement
Integration is one of the hot topics in the debate around durable solutions for refugees, particularly in resettlement. With forced displacement at an unprecedented level... Read More
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