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EXTRACT MPI’s Transatlantic Council on Migration Launches Research Series on Lasting Effects of Mixed Migration Flows First report examines Canadian challenges & solutions in housing Syr... Read more
ABSTRACT Processes of collaborative governance, also known as network structures or joined-up approaches, have been embraced increasingly by policy makers responding to complex and intractab... Read more
ABSTRACT Objective: To examine the resettlement experiences of former refugees living in regional Australia, focusing on mental health and mental health and support services, including barr... Read more
ABSTRACT The Arabic-speaking immigrant group, which makes up the fourth largest language group in Australia, has a high prevalence of cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study was... Read more
ABSTRACT Proficiency in Spoken English has implications for the ability of multilingual speakers to participate in vocational, educational, and social activities in English-dominant countrie... Read more
Factors Affecting the Resettlement of Former Refugees in Regional Australia SOURCE: Smith, L and Hoang, Ha and Mond, J and Reynish, T and Hannah, C and McLeod, K and Auckland, S and Slewa Yo... Read more
ABSTRACT This book draws together analysis of class, gender, ethnicity and processes of migration in the context of family-school relationships. It provides an original analysis of the role... Read more
ABSTRACT Emerging adulthood and post-secondary education is a life stage during which mental health challenges often emerge or are recognized. In this chapter we present the argument that in... Read more
ABSTRACT Migrant and refugee communities are at the forefront of highly feminised and precarious community sector work. Facing insecure labour contracts and contingent, competitive funding f... Read more
ABSTRACT Building on W. J. T. Mitchell’s (2012) insights on ‘race as a medium’ and a ‘framework of seeing through or seeing as,’ this essay argues that debates on Sudanese ‘criminal gangs’ i... Read more
Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law – Crimmigration in Australia
ABSTRACT Modern immigration is a highly regulated procedure governing the mobility of peoples between sovereign jurisdictions. This procedure has been progressively refined since the late ei... Read more
ABSTRACT Australia’s refugee policy can be characterized as crimmigration since it constructs asylum seekers as illegal and subjects them to indefinite detention in offshore processing centr... Read more
ABSTRACT This chapter examines historical and contemporary issues related to child protection and argues that the social construction of immigrants requires an examination of the values that... Read more
ABSTRACT Previous research suggests that client politics shape national migration laws in that they converge toward more liberal regulations. An examination of recently released cross-countr... Read more
A multicultural success story? Australian integration in comparative focus – Journal of Sociology
ABSTRACT Australia is often held up as an exemplary multicultural society in cross-national comparisons, particularly in relation to the integration of immigrants. Yet, this ‘grand narrative... Read more