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  1. Inside Sarajevo’s Tunnel of Hope

    I’ve spent the past month in Bosnia, researching how the war of 1992-1995 is remembered in public places such as museums and memorials. While in many …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2017/07/29/inside-sarajevos-tunnel-of-hope

  2. Confronting the past: The fate of asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka

    Reconciliation efforts by the Sri Lankan government have made little progress in advancing the rights of the Tamil minority group in a real sense, not least …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2017/03/11/confronting-the-past-the-fate-of-asylum-seekers-returned-to-sri-lanka

  3. ‘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

  4. ‘Welcome to Australia’ reading images of refugees

    Benjamin Thomas White’s lucid examinations of historical and contemporary images of refugees clearly demonstrates the complexities of reading images and the importance of historical analysis. (You …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/childrefugees/2016/06/03/welcome-to-australia-reading-images-of-refugees