This article looks at the asylum regime in Australia. In particular, it evaluates the procedures that are used to assess claims for asylum and the extent to which they meet international refugee and human rights standards. The article discusses four key issues in the adjudication programme: the ...
Refugees and asylum seekers attempting to get into Australia are confronted with a challenge. Prior to arriving they have faced persecution, disease and violence, and yet many of the people whom control their apparent destiny strongly oppose letting them in. This inhumane approach to the issue must...
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Arabic-speaking refugee and migrant populations form a significant proportion of Australia’s population. Despite high levels of psychological distress among Arabic-speaking populations, low uptake of mental health services has been demonstrated. Evidenc
In this case, a Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia unanimously dismissed an appeal against a decision of a single justice of the Federal Court, which had dismissed an application for judicial review of a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The Tribunal, in turn, had affi...
Free Essay: In the past few weeks and months social media and television have been bombarding us about the war in Syria and the refugee crisis that has...
Since 1947, Australia has formally resettled more than 750,000 refugees. During that time, researchers have successfully completed more than 150 Masters and doctoral theses and published more than 900 articles, books and reports about issues of refugee settlement in Australia, with about half of th...
Volume 44Issue 1 March 2025 Editors-in-Chief Professor David Cantor Dr Nicholas Maple Assistant Editors Dr Vickie Knox Bo Bottomley Dr Emmaleena Käkelä About the journal One of the oldest refugee studies publications in the world, theRefugee Survey Quarterly(RSQ) is an online only, peer-re...
"We have students who have been boy soldiers in Sudan who have tremendous psychological issues. The students are so motivated to have a fresh start and really do well in their studies and make a big impact," Young said on Monday.
“I was born in the U.S., but the refugee experience of my parents still shaped my life,” says Bui. “I went to 16 different schools from K to 12. We never really settled. We still carried economic issues and poverty that we got from the war. My story is a second-generation sto...