Refugee Settlement in Australia

Aparna Hebbani is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication & Arts, University of Queensland, Australia. She has served on the Queensland Government’s Multicultural Queensland Advisory Council, Board of Directors of Radio 4EB, and the National Advisory Group of The LOTE Agency, and was part of the Queensland India Council. She has actively researched refugee settlement in Australia for over 15 years, and has over 25 years of teaching experience in intercultural communication, public relations, and communication research at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the United States, Australia, India, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.

"This book by an intercultural communication scholar who experienced migration and diversity on her own skin, delves deftly into the interdisciplinary social-scientific space in order to cover the topic of refugee settlement in Australia comprehensively and holistically. This well-conceived succinct overview of a complex area of scholarship is equally useful for researchers and practitioners of the continuously contested space of refugee settlement in Australia and applicable to other major English-speaking countries. Using an ample literature review and original interview data, the book contributes to the hitherto less covered areas of refugee family dynamic and acculturation." Assoc. Prof. Val Colic-Peisker, Honorary Principal Research Fellow/Teaching Associate, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

• 1. Introduction to refugee settlement in Australia: past to present 2. Challenges of language learning and employment 3. Refugee education 4. Host society reception: communities and neighbourhoods 5. Media representations of refugees 6. The refugee family: Intergenerational acculturation and parenting 7. Working with/in the refugee sector