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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
Call For Proposals: ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and Forced Displacement 2025
The ASEAN Research Center at the Asia School of Business is excited to announce the fifth iteration of the ARC-UNHCR Conference on Refugee Studies and... Read More
A GLIMPSE INTO ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHALLENGING CONTEXTS—SOME THOUGHTS
A marketplace born of adversity The morning was humid as we wandered together along the makeshift marketplace at Balukhali Bazar in Cox’s Bazar. This vibrant... Read More
Why Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Jobs: ‘Brain Waste’, the Economic and Employment Gaps Under-Employed High-Skilled Immigrants Could Fill
Immigrants Aren’t ‘Stealing’ American Jobs With the re-election of former President Donald Trump, policies and opinions pertaining to immigration are expected to worsen as the... Read More
How can we preserve the human capital of countries affected by forced migration?
Universities and other higher education institutions (HEi) not only provide highly-skilled workforce, but they also produce human capital that is crucial for the political, economic,... Read More
New UK Government Rescinds ‘Rwanda Plan’ But Cruel System Remains
After their landslide victory in the 2024 UK General Election, one of the first policy announcements from the Labour government was to drop proposals to... 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
The Dominance of Christian Charities in US Refugee Resettlement
“Do you believe in a God?” This is one of the first questions that was asked of me in 2021 when I was offered a... 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
Post-Coup Human Rights for the Rohingya: Paving A Path Forward
In early 2021, the military in Myanmar – the Tatmadaw – seized power in a coup d’état. Its actions, on the one hand, mean ill... Read More