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Making up for lost time: the experiences of Southern Sudanese young refugees in high schools.(Programs & practice)

Youth Studies Australia

| September 01, 2005 | Cassity, Elizabeth; Gow, Greg | COPYRIGHT 2005 Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

How are recently arrived refugee young people from Southern Sudan faring in Australian high schools? A project undertaken with young refugees from three schools in the Western Sydney suburbs of Blacktown and Bankstown suggests that schools can act as sites where Southern Sudanese young people can come to terms with the trauma of forced migration, and make the transition to citizenship and belonging in multicultural Australia.

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Thousands of refugees from Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean backgrounds arrived in Australia from the Horn of Africa during the 1990s. Now they are established groups. After 2000, the focus of Australia's refugee program ...

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