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Using data drawn from consultations and interviews with young people from young people of refugee background in Melbourne, Australia, we examine how young people negotiate their lives in the context of settlement, specifically during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We listened to stories about the challenges they faced, and the initiative and actions they took during the lockdown of nine towers in public housing estates of inner Melbourne during June and July of 2020. In this research, we have found that, despite many pre-existing disadvantages, young people of refugee background have responded to the crisis through public health promotion, volunteering, and innovation. The pandemic has highlighted the role that young people play in supporting their families and communities in the settlement/integration process and the added responsibilities young people have assumed in the context of COVID-19. In negotiating these, young people have drawn upon embodied and communal ways of coping. This paper starts with an exploration of refugee young people's narratives about their lives and experiences during the pandemic. We adopt intersectionality as a method and analytical tool to interpret these experiences and the roles in which young people have enacted during this time-as navigators, carers, providers, and innovators. We end by evaluating the policy gaps these reflect and highlight.

Despite recognition that a greater understanding of men who buy sex in illicit street sex markets is required for a holistic view of street sex work, research focused on this group remains scarce. The authors of this article recognize buyers of illicit sex as key players in the socio-spatial construction of street sex markets, and consider their inclusion in research vital to a holistic understanding of a street sex market. The article discusses key findings from interviews conducted with nine men who buy sex from female street sex workers as part of a broader ethnography of street sex work in Dandenong, Victoria. Observations provide insight into the nature of these men’s connection to the women they buy sex from, their perceptions of their use of commercial sex, and their preference for buying sex in this street sex market instead of other types of commercial sex. These observations contribute to our understanding of the value of the sexual capital clients attach to this street sex market and the sex they buy within it.

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Community development work in the Philippines evolved from its distinct social and political history. In the country's context, a strong civil society was instrumental in influencing politics and social life from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, highlighted during the dictatorial rule of President Ferdinand and the People Power Revolution in 1986. The repressive situation resulted in the formation of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) that aimed to organise the masses for two key different purposes: to wage armed and underground struggles against the regime, and to implement projects to help communities and lobby for sectoral reforms (Batistiana & Murphy, 1996). Cooperatives were formed, women's movements, peasants, fisher folks and Indigenous peoples were organised. Other venues of community development work were also explored such as livelihood, gender equality, ecology, alternative legal assistance, and support for migrant workers among others. The Cordillera Region, specifically the Province of Benguet where this research was conducted, are recipients of numerous community development projects implemented by government, NGOs and private agencies with local and international funding. As one of the authors of this article is an Ibaloy-Kankanaey Igorot woman, her experience of being both a