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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Grandhotel Cosmopolis – a concrete utopia? Reflections on the mediated and lived geographies of asylum accommodation

Comparative Migration Studies, 2020
This paper argues that perceptions towards asylum seekers are shaped by both media representation as well as lived experiences in and around asylum accommodation.
Marielle Zill, Bas Spierings, Ilse Van Liempt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Roma asylum seekers from the former Czechoslovakia in the Northeast of England:: migration and identities [PDF]

, 2003
Between 1997-1998, mass migrations entitled a 'Roma exodus' from the Czech and Slovak Republics to Canada and the United Kingdom occurred. The host countries were presented, mainly through the media, as 'welcoming' asylum seekers.
Tikalova, Jana
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder, Olivia Crivari, Phillippa Carnemolla, Libby Callaway   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lives worthy of human dignity: investigating the impact of UK Asylum Policy on the well-being of asylum seekers in the North East of England. [PDF]

, 2013
This practitioner research project aims to explore with asylum seekers, their experiences of the UK asylum process. It seeks to identify what the key issues of well-being are for asylum seekers and, to examine these alongside some of the theoretical ...
CARROLL, CHRISTINE
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primary Care for Asylum Seekers

InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice, 2011
Reducing health inequalities and improving access to primary care for the socially excluded is a Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) area of clinical priority for 2011–13. Asylum seekers are a key socially excluded group but primary health care professionals are under-resourced and lack confidence in managing this population because the UK ...
Nicholson, B, Reid, C, Albuerne, C
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Immigration, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees [PDF]

, 2021
This chapter discusses three of the most common areas of challenge for an asylum seeker. The first part of the chapter explains the basis of a refugee claim and the refugee determination process in the UK. The second part highlights a number of issues relating to trauma and memory and their impact on disclosure in the asylum context.
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Policy as punishment: asylum seekers in the community without the right to work [PDF]

, 2014
Introduction: This research paper details the experiences of 29 asylum seekers who were released from immigration detention in Australia into community-based arrangements with no right to work and limited entitlements.
Caroline Fleay, Lisa Hartley
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