...., 2006 ; Mkandawire et al., 2011 ; Weber, 1990). Since our investigation was an Australia-wide study, we included in our analysis a sample of people from various ethnic-racial backgrounds, including individuals who identify themselves as African Australians. These people present a subset...

... services in Australia. Design/methodology/approach Eleven individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with two general practitioners (GPs) and nine consumers from two clinics, at locations with high Iranian and Burmese refugee or asylum seeker populations. Interviews were transcribed...

... and hospitalisations, among other variables. For onshore detention, the reports covered detention centres (IDCs and ITAs) on Mainland Australia and Christmas Island; other forms of onshore detention, such as APODs and community detention are therefore not investigated in this paper. Table 1 Total number...

... This study analysed administrative data from four public maternity hospitals in Victoria, Australia. The primary outcome was the proportion of women from non-English speaking migrant backgrounds who required an interpreter during their maternity care, both overall and stratified by refugee and nonrefugee...

.... Design/methodology/approach In total, 111 Afghan, Burmese and Sudanese women living in Melbourne, Australia, received peer-support training and a free unlimited fixed-dial mobile phone for one year. Findings Interview and call log data suggest that the training sessions and mobile phones played...

... migrants who have recently arrived in Australia from Sub Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach The paper's approach is a discussion expressing the views of authors supported by the relevant literature drawn from a wide range of sources on migration, settlement, health, social, environment...

... comment and policy initiatives, and preoccupy social service practitioners daily. Drawing on an ethnographic examination of the everyday experiences of Iraqi refugees in a small regional town in Victoria, Australia, this article explores how social service practitioners address cultural difference...