Category: Research Updates
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Inside Sarajevo’s Tunnel of Hope
I’ve spent the past month in Bosnia, researching how the war of 1992-1995 is remembered in public places such as museums and memorials. While in many locations throughout the country it remains difficult to remember the war, including the experiences of children, in Sarajevo there are many museums addressing the recent past. One of the […]blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2017/07/29/inside-sarajevos-tunnel-of-hope
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Confronting the past: The fate of asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka
Reconciliation efforts by the Sri Lankan government have made little progress in advancing the rights of the Tamil minority group in a real sense, not least since the change in government in 2015. Sri Lankan Tamils including children continue to arrive to Australia eight years after the civil war ended in 2009 between the government […] -
‘special attention’ on refugee children
In 1994 the UNHCR released a document entitled Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care. This document – which updated a 1988 document, and incorporated ideas from a UNHCR policy document produced in 1993 – remains the standard set of guidelines for protection regimes and measures for refugee children from the UNHCR. All of the […]blogs-test.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees-test/2016/09/01/special-attention-on-refugee-children
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‘Welcome to Australia’ reading images of refugees
Benjamin Thomas White’s lucid examinations of historical and contemporary images of refugees clearly demonstrates the complexities of reading images and the importance of historical analysis. (You can read them here: part one, two, three, and refugee camps.) Given how readily images, particularly photographs, populate our physical and digital worlds, it is through a detailed historical analysis of […]