Regional Focus: Australia & New Zealand

Events:

The Detention and Abuse of Child Asylum Seekers, Melbourne, 28 August 2014 [info]

Refugee Policy in Election Year, Auckland, 30 August 2014 [info]
- View the press release for this event on the Doing Our Bit Facebook page.

Refugees: Why Seeking Asylum is Legal and Australia’s Policies are Not, Sydney, 24 September 2014 [info]
- Q&A with one of the authors of a soon-to-be published book.

Publications:

Australia:

Australia's Highest Court to Hear Test Case on Asylum Seekers (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Aug. 2014) [text]

The Construction of Borders: Discursive Representations of Asylum Seekers in Australian Press (Lund University, Spring 2014) [text]

An Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014 (Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee) [info]
- Follow "submissions" link on the right for commentary re. the Bill.

New Zealand:

"Cultural Case Workers in Child Disability Services: An Evidence-based Model of Cultural Responsiveness for Refugee Families," Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Latest Articles, 11 Aug. 2014 [open access]

"'Going through the doors of pain': Asylum Seeker and Convention Refugee Experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand," Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Latest Articles, 20 Aug. 2014 [open access]

I ōrea te tuātara ka patu ki waho: Competing Priorities in the New Zealand Refugee Resettlement Strategy (Fulbright New Zealand, Aug. 2014) [text]

"The New Zealand Refugee Resettlement Strategy: Implications for Identity, Acculturation and Civic Participation," Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Latest Articles, 20 Aug. 2014 [open access]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Oceania (14 Aug. 2014)

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