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ABSTRACT They are Italians making cappuccinos at the front bar of cafes in Glebe and Carlton, and Indians washing dishes out the back. They are accounting lecturers from Britain running clas... Read more
The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020 On 30 April 2009, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) endorsed the first National Framework for Protecting... Read more
ABSTRACT … a Stand-Alone Paragraph on Refugees with Disabilities in the Global Compact on Refugees www~unhcr org … Each of Australia’s law schools is briefly profiled, with insights of... Read more
EXTRACT from an article by Jason Steger The winner of this year’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature couldn’t be at the awards presentation on Thursday evening. He was unavo... Read more
ABSTRACT Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers arriving unauthorised by boat have had a particularly harmful impact on unaccompanied children. An estimated 1,832 unaccompanied as... Read more
ABSTRACT Across the world large numbers of people are displaced every year and seek asylum in other countries. For example, in 2010 ‘…there were an estimated 43.7 million forcibl... Read more
Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Refugee Communities – Australian Institute of Family Studies
ABSTRACT This paper looks at what is currently known about intimate partner violence in Australian refugee communities, and what service providers can do to ensure appropriate support is ava... Read more
ABSTRACT Objective: To examine the impacts of social integration and loneliness on the mental health of humanitarian migrants (HMs) in Australia over time. Methods: A total of 1,723 HMs who... Read more
ABSTRACT Current Canadian data on Syrian refugee resettlement indicates that while Canada’s major metropolitan areas are hosting the majority of arrivals, smaller and rural communities are a... Read more
ABSTRACT Skilled migrants and related concepts such as integration and career outcomes have been and continue to be researched extensively in a variety of human resource and industrial relat... Read more
ABSTRACT Background: Violence against women is a major human rights and public health issue globally. The experience of violence affects women across Australia, including the large number o... Read more
ABSTRACT Community developers and planners have long recognized the value of storytelling to engage communities. Yet, in working with disadvantaged communities, they are often challenged to... Read more
ABSTRACT This study investigates subjectivity, identity negotiation and the construction of social belonging for a small group of African Australians young adults. Homi Bhabha’s (1994, 2012)... Read more
ABSTRACT This study examines transitional patterns of family relationships in new cultural settings by focusing on the choices and challenges confronting a little known and vulnerable migran... Read more
ABSTRACT This environmental scan presents an overview of the settlement services and programs provided to refugee youth in Ontario for their integration and well-being. The settlement experi... Read more
