In the Search for the Good Life: Settlement Experiences of South Sudanese Families in Western Sydney
This research explores the settlement experiences of South Sudanese humanitarian migrants who have arrived in Australia between late 1990s and late 2000s. South Sudanese came to Australia in the search for the good life. They came with high settlement expectations and aspirations. However, on arrival South Sudanese humanitarian migration became a public concern with authorities declaring the settlement policy a failure in 2007.
Atem’s PhD examines the settlement experience of South Sudanese humanitarian migrants in Western Sydney through charting the pre-migration and post-migration forces shaping immigrant experiences in Australia. The thesis prioritises the perspectives of South Sudanese migrants through exploring how South Sudanese traditional ways of life, socio-cultural, economic and political arrangements were reshaped by war, displacement and asylum experiences before their arrival in Australia. The thesis also investigates how migrants navigated societal and institutional responses in Australia using theories of social justice and social citizenship to examine the constant dialogues between migrants and the host society over the meaning of Australian identity and migrant settlement.
Location
Jean Martin Room, Beryl Rawson Building and via Zoom
Time
Mon., 22 March 2021
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm AEDT
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