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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – Extract In the past two decades, Australian universities and schools have received increasing numbers of students from refugee backgrounds (SfRBs). These students h... Read more
A LOT HAS CHANGED in the ten years since CMY’s Settling In report was published. The percentage of Victoria’s population who are 12-24 years old has shrunk slightly but grown more dive... Read more
EXTRACT Question: What are the resettlement efforts of the following countries? The US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Norway and France? Overview: A range of refugee resettlement effor... Read more
‘Australia’s skilled migration program: scarce skills not required’ / Bob Birrell, Tapri, March 2018 — Immigration advocates have taken to justifying Australia’s record hig... Read more
A selection of articles: “There is really discrimination everywhere”: Experiences and consequences of Everyday Racism among the new black African diaspora in Australia / Kwamena Kwansah-Aido... Read more
EXTRACT Building community in youth programs is a necessary and effective way to support the human developmental needs of refugee and immigrant youth by way of facilitating cultural integrat... Read more
REFUGEES, IMMIGRATION & MULTICULTURALISM Countries Must Compete for Migrant Workers to Boost Their Economies / Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, The Conversation, May 2018. Dispersing Refugees Aro... Read more
How Do Refugees Seek Employment, Overcome Work-related Challenges, and Navigate Their Careers? Contents Volume 105, Pages 1-184 (April 2018): Vocational Behavior of Refugees: How do Refugees... Read more
Critical Reflections on Migration,’Race’and Multiculturalism: Australia in a Global Context by Martina Boese and Vince Moratta / BOOK REVIEW by R Link (2018) — Research is... Read more
EXTRACT Building a New Life in Australia is a long-term research project about how humanitarian migrants settle into a new life in Australia. This is an ongoing longitudinal study with annua... Read more
ABSTRACT Over the last few years, we have witnessed the largest displacement of refugees in modern history. Among the many challenges faced by refugees, finding employment and navigating the... Read more
A selection of articles with abstracts Attitudes and perceptions of Sudanese high-school students and their parents towards spectacle wear [HTML] / SH Alrasheed, KS Naidoo, PC Clarke-Farr ... Read more
ABSTRACT We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on t... Read more
Journal of Refugee Studies (1988 – ) provides a forum for exploration of the complex problems of forced migration and national, regional and international responses. The Journal covers all c... Read more
A selection of articles with abstracts from a variety of sources ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour: A space for civil society in migration governance at the regional level? / S Rother, Asia Paci... Read more
