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The State of Statelessness
Being stateless ultimately means having no nationality and having no nationality usually means having no documents to prove your identity. People can become stateless for... Read More
Injustices and the Art of Realpolitik
The latest instalment of Australia’s Pacific Solution has been an exercise in state-sanctioned cruelty. Hardly a week goes by without new revelations about the mistreatment... Read More
Public attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees
Australian politicians have a long history of using dehumanising language to influence public opinion against people seeking asylum, particularly those arriving by boat (Clark 2013,... Read More
Legal Update: Discrimination Law to Protect Refugees in the ACT
As a practicing lawyer, I heard refugees and asylum-seeker clients describe discrimination and harassment as common. They were often unaware that it was unlawful and... Read More
How Can We Best Understand Public Reactions Towards Migrant Groups?
Ravini Abeywickrama (PhD candidate) Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Consider the concept of migration from an evolutionary perspective, as detailed... Read More
Stuck In The Middle With Whom? What High School Is Like For Refugee-Background Students
THE PROJECT Moo Dar Eh was a cheeky, softly spoken and facially expressive 15-year-old Karen lass; born and raised in a Thai refugee camp. She... Read More
Australian picture books: Humanising and thoughtful depictions of displaced children
My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood was selected for the ‘Read for Australia’ event on Friday 2 September 2016 where school students... Read More
Supporting Refugee Education
Conflict has been an overarching burden in the lives of many refugee children now living in Australia. There are a number of additional barriers, as... Read More
Delete the term ‘ethnic.’ Representations of ‘Stateless Arabs.’
It was a pleasure to present my work at the tenth annual Researchers for Asylum seekers conference on the 16th of November, 2015. It was... Read More