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The Hijab in the West: A Negotiation of Identity
The Hijab in the West: A Negotiation of Identity, exclusion/inclusion for refugee Muslim Women in Australia A handful of researchers have tried to understand the... Read More
Refugee Engagement with History Education in Inner-city Schools
As a History teacher in an inner London school, there is a huge amount of diversity between students’ backgrounds, beliefs, religions and traditions. Something that... 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
Negotiating Dehumanising Experiences of Asylum Seeker Policies in the Australian Community
As the number of refugees and asylum-seekers escalates worldwide, industrialised countries continue to apply increasingly restrictive measures to deter those seeking asylum from entering their... Read More
Who is anti-migrant? The personality traits behind prejudice
Negative attitudes toward migrant populations and refugees is a popular topic of study among prejudice researchers, with these groups being almost universally maligned in their... 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
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
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
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