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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
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Refugees in Greece: the Greeks as ‘refugees’

Global Discourse, 2018
The state of economic emergency under which Greece has been put for the past eight years throws into relief the basic antinomy inherent in democracy. This pertains to the exercise of national sovereignty on the basis of borders whose safeguarding, however, implements a network of state practices of control and selection of populations both ‘within’ and
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How do general practitioners experience providing care to refugees with mental health problems? A qualitative study from Denmark [PDF]

, 2013
Background Refugees are a particularly vulnerable group in relation to the development of mental illness and many may have been subjected to torture or other traumatic experiences.
Jensen Natasja Koitzsch, Norredam, M, Krasnik Allan, Natasja Koitzsch Jensen, Marie Norredam, Norredam Marie, Priebe, Stefan, Norredam, Marie, Krasnik, Allan, Priebe Stefan, Priebe, S, Stefan Priebe, Krasnik, A, Jensen, NK, Allan Krasnik, Jensen, Natasja Koitzsch   +15 more
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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
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook, Adrienne Byrt, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
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Advocacy for Refugees [PDF]

North Carolina Medical Journal, 2009
NCMed JMarch/April 2009, Volume 70, Number 2 efugees are a population distinct from other immigrants in that they have been forced to leave their homes and relocate in other countries out of fear of persecution based on race, religion, ethnicity, political opinion, or social group. The UnitedStates admitsmore refugees forpermanent resettlement than any
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
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From Ravaged Livelihoods in the Global South to Mediterranean Crossings: The Reality of Climate Migration

Ocean and Society
The Mediterranean Sea is the focus of our research, as it is a major migration corridor from Africa and Asia, with Greece serving as a key entry point to Europe. Based on 70 semi‐structured interviews with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers currently
Theodota Nantsou, Konstantinos Vlachopoulos, Emmanuella Doussis, Nasruddin Nizami   +3 more
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Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
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Assessing the economic contribution of refugees in Australia [PDF]

, 2013
Currently in Australia the costs and benefits of refugee settlement are poorly understood among the general population, leaving public opinion to be easily influenced by myth and misinformation.
Richard Parsons
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