Archive for: September 2016
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Australian picture books: Humanising and thoughtful depictions of displaced children
My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood was selected for the ‘Read for Australia’ event on Friday 2 September 2016 where school students around …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2016/09/14/australianpicturebooks
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Photographs, favours and mango leaves.
Each time I set out to collect an oral history I prepare for an adventure, not only because of the narrative that awaits my attention but …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2016/09/01/photographs-favours-and-mango-leaves
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I didn’t see the footprints: memorials for children in Bosnia and Hercegovina
“The footprints! They’re all over the fountain. They make my heart break.” “I didn’t see them”. I was in Sarajevo, Bosnia, to attend a summer school …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2016/09/01/i-didnt-see-the-footprints-memorials-for-children-in-bosnia-and-hercegovina
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‘Never had a chance’ – child refugees and health in postwar Australia
Standards of care that exist for child refugees within a receiving country are integral to their successful settlement. And yet, specific questions regarding health and wellbeing have …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2016/09/01/never-had-a-chance-child-refugees-and-health-in-postwar-australia
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‘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 …
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2016/09/01/special-attention-on-refugee-children