News and events

Chinese Indonesians: refugee status, cultural performance and localising identity

Thursday 20th October 11:30am-1:00pm Monika Winarnita, PhD candidate Anthropology, ANU

Narrating Identity: Silence and speech amongst the Ashaninka of the Central Peruvian Amazon

Thursday 19th May 11:30am-1:00pm Ms Ashley Greenwood, PhD candidate, School of Social Sciences

Australia's hidden homeless: Community-based approaches to asylum seeker homelessness

Thursday 21st April 11:30am-1:00pm Ms Caz Coleman, Director Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Program

Mixed messages: Using ICTs to support settlement of young people from refugee backgrounds

Thursday 17th March 11:30am-1:00pm Dr Raelene Wilding, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University

Seeking asylum in the region

Thursday 18th November 12:30-2:00pm Dr Savitri Taylor, School of Law, La Trobe University

Teenage Pregnancy and African Refugee Girls in Greater Melbourne

Thursday 21st October 12:30-2:00pm Mimmie Ngum Chi, LaRRC PhD candidate and Lecturer in Community Health, Victoria University

Refugees, displacement and landscapes of difference in Malaysia

Thursday 16th September 12:30-2:00pm Dr Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security, La Trobe University

Australian policies towards asylum seekers and refugees: Issues at stake in the federal election

Thursday 19th August 12:30-2:00pm Tamara Domicelj, Refugee Rights Advocacy Consultant, Oxfam Australia

Southern Perspectives on International Migration

Thursday 12th August 3:00-5:00 pm Professor Binod Khadria, Jawaharlal University, New Delhi

Sport development and the refugee experience: a case study of The Big Issue community street soccer project

Thursday 15th July 1:00—2:30 pm

Dr Emma Sherry, School of Management, La Trobe University

Alternatives to immigration detention: concepts and models

Thursday 17th June 1:00—2:30 pm

Robyn Sampson, PhD Candidate, LaRRC, La Trobe University

The needs of international students from a gender and cultural perspective

Thursday 20th May 1:00—2:30 pm

Ms Melba Marginson, Victorian Immigrant, and Refugee, Women's Coalition

Young Somali men, identity and cultural negotiation: a comparative perspective

Thursday 15 April 1:00—2:30 pm

Yusuf Sheikh Omar, PhD Candidate, LaRRC, La Trobe University

Cultural diversity,relocation, and the security of international students

Thursday 18 March 1:00—2:30 pm

Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett, Sociology Program, La Trobe University