School of Social Sciences
La Trobe Refugee Research Centre
 Welcome to the La Trobe Refugee Research Centre (LaRRC)
The La Trobe Refugee Research Centre is a part of the School of Social Sciences and a core affiliate of La Trobe University’s Institute for Human Security. LaRRC works to promote the wellbeing, participation and social inclusion of people with refugee backgrounds through applied and foundation research, teaching, continuing education and professional development.
Through a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, LaRRC aims to:
- To raise public awareness and contribute to national and global debate about the causes and consequences of forced displacement and their impacts on human security;
- To investigate the social determinants of wellbeing of people with refugee backgrounds and the contexts that promote optimal resettlement;
- To investigate the socio-political factors that hinder or promote social inclusion, among communities with refugee backgrounds;
To promote access and equity to health and social services for communities with refugee backgrounds;
- To raise awareness of refugee issues through teaching in the undergraduate curriculum across University faculties.
The work of LaRRC is organized around three key themes:
- Displacement: focusing on the push and pull factors of forced displacement;
- Flight: focusing on issues from exile and the seeing of asylum;
- Refuge: focusing on issues of resettlement and refugee Diasporas
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Somali Community Youth Conference 2009
Saturday, October 24, La Trobe University (Bundoora Campus – WLT 1), 11am – 6pm
The La Trobe Refugee Research Centre (LaRRC), in partnership with the Somali Australian Friendship Association (SAFA) and the Victorian Young Somali Network, are organising a one day Somali Youth Community Conference to be held at La Trobe University’s Bundoora Campus on Saturday, October 24, 2009.
The conference is for young people from the Somali community with a focus on education, and will involve discussions about their experiences of education in Australia. The program will also include a panel of young Somali Australians voicing their concerns and discussing their experiences of identity, education, and growing up in Melbourne, Australia today. The conference will encourage a broader community discussion, with members from across the generations, on issues of intergenerational differences and about being Somali Australian.
The conference is open to the wider public.
For further information and to RSVP for this event, visit the LaRRC Annual Somali Conference webpage.
For more information on the Centre please see the following:
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