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History suggests refugees on Manus and Nauru can be resettled in Australia without reviving boat arrivals
Last month 54 refugees departed Manus Island for resettlement in the US under an agreement between the Turnbull and Obama administrations. Curiously, the government has... Read More
Exploring refugee women’s settlement experiences in Australia through photovoice
Research exploring issues faced on resettlement from a gender perspective is relatively recent and a growing area of inquiry [1, 2]. For refugee women, key... 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
Contestation on Refugee Integration should not Deter Practice
Refugee integration is a big phrase to consider. What does it mean? What does it look like in practice? Is it a durable solution to... 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
The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe: The Way Ahead
The contemporary world is fraught with trends directed at the criminalization of international migration (CoM). The modus operandi of migration management is replete with the... Read More
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
‘The end is nigh’: What should happen after Nauru and Manus close?
Australia’s offshore processing experiment, involving the detention of asylum seekers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG), has failed. Earlier last year, the Supreme Court... 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