Archive for: June 2016

  1. PEN International’s call for greater protection of refugees worldwide

    The statement issued by PEN International for World Refugee Day, a week ago, is an eloquent appraisal of the crisis facing the record numbers of asylum …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/06/28/pen-internationals-call-for-greater-protection-of-refugees-worldwide

  2. Chasing Asylum: A film by Eva Orner

    Reviewed by ARNOLD ZABLE Chasing Asylum is a visceral and confronting documentary which includes revealing, clandestine footage shot inside the Nauru and Manus Island detention centres. …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/06/15/chasing-asylum-a-film-by-eva-orner

  3. Vigil

    Every Sunday afternoon, Richard Davis conducts a lone vigil outside the Wickham Point Immigration detention centre, thirty-five kilometres south of Darwin.  Affectionately known by detainees as …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/06/10/vigil

  4. Asylum Seeker Resource Centre: 15th anniversary

    Wednesday June 8, 2016, marks the 15th anniversary of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. The Melbourne University Studies Program congratulates the ASRC on this occasion. The …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/06/10/asylum-seeker-resource-centre-15th-anniversary

  5. Philoxenia

    In the first week of November 2001, a Turkish flagged boat, the Brenier, carrying 713 Iraqi Kurds and Afghan asylum seekers, broke down in the Ionian …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/06/01/philoxenia