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The Experience of International Students Before and During COVID-19: Housing, work, study, and wellbeing

By J Pope
In Multicultural communities, Young people
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 University of Technology Sydney, Australian Research Council study (DP190101073), International students’ experience of renting accommodation in Australia is a crucial but overlooked determinant of their wellbeing, which has been brought into stark relief by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report is based on two surveys of international students in the private rental sector (PRS). The...

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Women on temporary visas experiencing family violence face additional complex barriers to seeking help

By J Pope
In Multicultural communities, Sexual, gendered & partner violence
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inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence, March 11th, 2020 CEO of inTouch, Ms Michal Morris, today released a position paper on women on temporary visas who are experiencing family violence. The paper urges the government to implement eight recommendations in order to improve supports and services for these vulnerable women. ‘I believe that all women who experience family violence in...

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Discrimination: a health hazard for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds resettled in Australia

By J Pope
In Multicultural communities
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Ziersch, A., Due, C. & Walsh, M. Discrimination: a health hazard for people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds resettled in Australia. BMC Public Health 20, 108 (2020). Abstract Background Research has shown that discrimination is harmful to health, but there is relatively little known about discrimination experienced by people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds in...

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Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse

By J Pope
In Multicultural communities, Sexual, gendered & partner violence
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The Conversation, February 1, 2019 6.11am AEDT Migrant women with temporary visa status are particularly vulnerable when it comes to domestic and family violence. That vulnerability is intensified when you add technology to the mix. In our recent study, we analysed interviews with migrant women who had experienced domestic abuse about their experiences with technology-facilitated abuse. We found...

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Australia will never be HIV-free if access to prevention requires a medicare card

By J Pope
In HIV, Multicultural communities
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The Conversation, January 23, 2019 12.21pm AEDT by Nicholas Medland, Sexual health physician and senior researcher, UNSW Australia aims to “virtually eliminate” HIV transmission by 2022, according to the health minister’s new national HIV strategy. This ambitious goal has been made possible by biomedical HIV prevention, a new and highly effective way of preventing HIV using medications. But new...

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