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Melbourne, Monday 29 October 2018 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Monash Conference Centre Migration is part and parcel of human history and human development but keeps being represented as an excep... Read more
ABSTRACT Despite a general expectation for immigrants to Australia to shift quickly to the use of English, many new-Australian families maintain strong attachments to their heritage language... Read more
ABSTRACT The critical factor determining whether children of immigrants become bilingual is strong family and community support for, and use of, the home language(s) alongside English (Pauwe... Read more
ABSTRACT This chapter highlights the plight of refugees and the strategies and policies crafted by international agencies and non-governmental institutions in providing better access to educ... Read more
ABSTRACT This Special Issue is concerned with a specific type of migration, that of international migrants to rural and regional communities with little prior experience of migration; so cal... Read more
Bringing together leading thinkers on immigration, population and social cohesion, and members of organisations that are actively working to foster cohesive communities, the Institute will p... Read more
Australia’s Man-made Crisis on Nauru — Six years after the Australian government began sending people seeking asylum to Nauru, there are still around 900 people left on the island, inc... Read more
ABSTRACT This article documents the experiences of volunteer visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, and considers what they reveal about the operation of power wit... Read more
ABSTRACT The current study investigated the role of individual, pre-migration, and post-settlement factors in predicting academic success of 62 adolescents from refugee backgrounds with self... Read more
ABSTRACT We explored the strategies that refugee single mothers used to manage socio-emotional, physical and economic challenges of raising children during resettlement in a Western country.... Read more
ABSTRACT Objective: To explore work-related psychosocial stressors among people of Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic-speaking backgrounds currently working in Australia. Methods: In 2015, a t... Read more
ABSTRACT Sports participation can confer a range of physical and psychosocial benefits and, for refugee and migrant youth, may even act as a critical mediator for achieving positive settleme... Read more
Melbourne, Thursday 15 November 2018, 9am Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne Conference Spotlight: Gender, Identity and Persecution The Researchers fo... Read more
ABSTRACT In the 21st century alone, millions of refugees have been displaced from their homes, often through compounded traumatic experiences. Many of these refugees have resettled in foreig... Read more
ABSTRACT Personal injury claims for people seeking asylum can achieve compensation for harmful conditions within onshore immigration detention centres and hold the government to account for... Read more
