Refugees & asylum seekers – Page 4

The Children’s Book: Syrian children try expression through art

By Anna Kennedy

The drawings of children in Home reveal a depth of experience and imagination, arising from the midst of violence and conflict.

The Rohingyans: a people in fearful limbo despite 70 years of human rights

By Claire Rogers

Monday 10 December marks Human Rights Day, a day to ask the question: how can we help to uphold the rights of the most vulnerable?

Poems from the edge of the Indian Ocean

By Simone King

Pettitt-Schipp’s debut book of poetry evokes the traumatic lives of refugees, the grandeur of nature and the importance of family.

Politics, media sensationalism and the so-called African gang crisis

By Francis Deng

The demonisation of the Sudanese community is not a new phenomenon, it is a trend. Francis Deng reflects on the unseen impacts of media sensationalism.

Systems of Oppression: a review of No Friend But the Mountains

By Ruth McHugh-Dillon

No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison Behrouz Boochani, Omid Tofighian Picador Australia, 2018 “Is courage the opposite of fear?” asks Behrouz Boochani in his monumental, impossible new work, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison (Picador, 2018). “Or is courage a virtue that emerges out of the essence of […]

Redefining identity through community art projects

By Devana Senanayake

“We are not either. We are not specifically Asian. We are not specifically Australian, but we live within that space,” says Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert, speaking about her exhibition Hyphenated that was shown at The Substation over March and April 2018. I encountered Tammy’s name several times on the Facebook group “Asian Australian Studies Research Network” before […]

Planned destitution of people seeking asylum: An “act of grace”?

By Eve Lester

Since 1991, people seeking asylum have been ineligible for any form of social security, instead they have made do with the little assistance they get under a constantly changing policy-based approach. In a new round of cuts within this policy, vast numbers of people seeking asylum will be at risk of avoidable destitution and homelessness.