Social policies and refugee resettlement: Iraqis in Australia

Johnston, Vanessa; Vasey, Katherine Elizabeth; Marković, Milica

doi:10.1177/0261018308101626

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“…144 Johnson, Vasey, and Markovic, for example, found that Iraqi refugees living in a regional town in the state of Victoria had limited employment opportunities despite being professionally qualified, and participants commonly stated that the wages were poor and the type of work demeaning. 145 In addition, they found English skills difficult to obtain in their local area with English classes stopping altogether, and that access to services in the social and health sectors was limited. It is difficult to determine whether these problems were simply 'teething difficulties' due to the newness of the regional settlement initiative.…”

Section: Culture Shock (Intergenerational Disputes and Gender Role Ismentioning

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Refugee Resettlement in Australia: What We Know and Need to Know

Fozdar¹,

Hartley²

2013

Refugee Survey Quarterly

127

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The year 2011 marked the 60 th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention. It is thus an appropriate time to review the situation of refugees in one of the few signatory countries that accepts UNHCR approved refugees, Australia. Australia takes around 14,000 refugees annually, from countries in the African, Middle Eastern and Asian regions. The Australian government funds a range of services to assist the settlement process, and these are recognized as among the best in the world. While these services provide assistance in the areas of employment, education and training, housing, language, health, social support, and cultural orientation, there is room for improvement to ensure social inclusion. This paper provides an overview of research undertaken with this population over the last fifteen years investigating some of the key barriers to social inclusion. It outlines a number of matters in need of policy improvement, and areas for further research.

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Section: Culture Shock (Intergenerational Disputes and Gender Role Ismentioning

confidence: 99%

Refugee Resettlement in Australia: What We Know and Need to Know

Fozdar¹,

Hartley²

2013

Refugee Survey Quarterly

127

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“…Australia grants around 13,750 humanitarian visas each year, 1 of which 6000 are for refugees resettled through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Karlsen, 2015). Engaging in ‘burden sharing’ arguments, Australia has implemented a regional resettlement policy since 2004, whereby refugees with no family or social links in Australia are actively resettled to regional areas (Johnston et al, 2009) to alleviate labour shortages and foster integration through employment (Schech, 2014). However, this measure has at times been described as an attempt to ‘appease a fearful white electorate’ (Robinson, cited in Schech, 2014: 602) nervous about the development of racially segregated urban ‘ghettos’.…”

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Media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in regional Australia: a critical discourse analysis

Cooper

Olejniczak

Lenette

et al. 2016

Media International Australia

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Despite significant research into media and political coverage of refugees and asylum seekers, and ongoing Commonwealth policies to resettle refugees to regional areas, analysis of the regional press is lacking. We reviewed articles from four regional newspapers using quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis to examine some initial trends in how regional newspapers represent refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the dominant negative framing of refugee issues at the national level, the regional media used positive, humanising frames and a broader range of sources in articles on local topics such as refugees’ personal stories. This reflects the community-building role of local journalism and challenges the familiar boundaries of the debate. However, there was a compelling distinction between articles on local and national topics, with the negative national discourse and dominance of government sources reflected in articles on national topics such as legislation and events.

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“…Most refugees represent vulnerable communities (Baker, Gentry, and Rittenburg 2005) and therefore need substantial assistance to integrate into their new host country's economic and social systems. This high level of vulnerability is why host countries, via United Nations conventions, continue to design integration programs to address gaps in education, social integration, employment, and health care (Johnston, Vasey, and Markovic 2009). Yet, while the primary objectives of such programs are to address refugees' needs to better integrate into host societies, not all refugees necessarily embrace the options provided, even when there is a demonstrable need (Peisker and Tilbury 2003).…”

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Factors Leading to Health Care Exclusion Among African Refugees in Australia: The Case of Blood Donation

Polonsky

Ferdous

Renzaho

et al. 2018

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing

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Developed countries that accept refugees are obligated, under the UN Convention for Refugees, to integrate refugees into host communities, with inclusion in the health system being pivotal. Integration programs can be difficult though, because many refugees' home countries have different health systems, lower health literacy, and different expectations of health services. Country health system differences require cultural adaptation of host country services when designing targeted, inclusive health care programs. Using a sample of 317 Australian-based African refugees, the authors examine how refugees' acculturation, perceptions of discrimination, past behavior, objective knowledge, and medical mistrust affect their health inclusion, depending on their blood donation intentions. The results indicate that perceived discrimination and objective blood donation knowledge directly affect donation intentions. Perceived discrimination mediates the relationships between acculturation and intentions and between medical mistrust and donation intentions, and objective knowledge mediates the relationship between past behavior and donation intentions. The authors offer recommendations to policy makers designing social inclusion programs and health service providers designing and delivering targeted initiatives, to better facilitate refugee participation in host country health systems.

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Social policies and refugee resettlement: Iraqis in Australia

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Refugee Resettlement in Australia: What We Know and Need to Know

Refugee Resettlement in Australia: What We Know and Need to Know

Media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in regional Australia: a critical discourse analysis

Factors Leading to Health Care Exclusion Among African Refugees in Australia: The Case of Blood Donation

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