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Over the last two decades, Indonesia has become a transit country for thousands of refugees, from Afghanistan and many other countries. Even though refugees hope to transit through Indonesia quickly, more often than not they end up staying there for many years. The majority of refugees who come to Indonesia tends to be young—usually in their teens and twenties—and many come to Indonesia without their families.
Read MoreIndividuals who support refugee and other newcomer populations through providing resettlement services, social services, and medical care can benefit from collaboration with each other.
Read MoreRecent data estimate that nearly 88 million immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for approximately 27% of the total U.S. population. Identifying the key factors that impact the health and wellbeing of newly arrived children is a complex challenge, even for the most seasoned school professional.
Read MoreStigma is a troubling barrier to good research. It presents a double challenge to the researcher: an ethical one (research might subject stigmatised individuals and groups to harm) and an epistemological one (stigma creates silences, making it hard to gather data). In my PhD research with African migrant women living in Ireland, I wanted to explore life experiences of gender-based violence, and particularly the stigma that surrounds those experiences. How could I ensure that my research participants were not inadvertently exposed to more stigma because of my inquiry? And how I could practice ethical research, but still interrogate the most private and taboo topics, including violence, rape, and personal and collective feelings of shame?
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