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Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal: Anticipating the Impact of Resettlement
Banki, SusanPublished 2008-01-01When refugees resettle to new countries, populations left behind are affected. These include remaining camp residents, political leaders and local residents. This report presents a preliminary forecast of the impacts to ...Open AccessOther -
Book Review: 'Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers' by David Scott Fitzgerald
Banki, SusanPublished 2021Review of Refuge Beyond Reach, by David Scott FitzGeraldOpen AccessArticle -
Displaced but not Disempowered: Bhutanese Refugees and Grassroots Activism
Banki, Susan; Ghimire, Bhakta; Khanal, HariPublished 2019-01-01In the early 1990s, about 80,000 ethnic Nepalis fled their home country of Bhutan and found refuge in Nepal. For more than a decade, activists from the refugee community used a variety of tactics to try to reverse the ...Open AccessArticle -
‘Finally an academic approach that prepares you for the real world’: simulations for human rights skills development in higher education
McGaughey, Fiona; Hartley, Lisa; Banki, Susan; Duffill, Paul; Stubbs, Matthew; Orchard, Phil; Rice, Simon; Berg, Laurie; Peggy Kerdo, PaghonaPublished 2019-08-15Effectively addressing violations of human rights requires dealing with complex, multi-spatial problems involving actors at local, national and international levels. It also calls for a diverse range of ...Open AccessArticle -
Leaving in Droves from the Orange Groves: The NepaliBhutanese Refugee Experience and the Diminishing of Dignity
Banki, Susan; Phillips, NicolePublished 2017-01-01Refugee situations can pose a threat to dignity due to the loss of land and livelihood. This chapter however argues that dignity is dynamic, and that autonomy and normalcy can play a role in restoring dignity at different ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Myanmar: the country that ‘has it all’
Banki, SusanPublished 2020For scholars of Southeast Asia interested in human rights, Myanmar is a country that ‘has it all.’ I use this tongue-in-cheek expression to suggest the myriad ways that the country remains mired in structural challenges ...Open AccessArticle -
The Paradoxical Power of Precarity: Refugees and Homeland Activism
Banki, SusanPublished 2013-01-01This paper offers a theoretical treatment of the argument that refugees who live in situations of varying precarity are uniquely positioned for transnational political action focused on reforming the home country from which ...Open AccessArticle -
Practicing what we teach: Experiential learning in higher education that cuts both ways
Valiente-Riedl, Elisabeth; Anderson, Leticia; Banki, SusanPublished 2021As innovative pedagogies such as experiential learning unsettle traditional assumptions about tertiary teaching, a deeper understanding of how teachers experience such shifts is required. Whilst the literature emphasizes ...EmbargoedArticle -
Precarity of Place: a complement to the growing precariat literature
Banki, SusanPublished 2013-01-01The growing precarity literature offers some valuable ways of thinking about both the roots of and responses to precarity, whether defined existentially (as per Butler), economically (Standing) or intersubjectively (Neilson ...Open AccessArticle -
Refugee Camp Education: Populations Left Behind
Banki, SusanPublished 2013-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Refugees as Educators: The Potential for Positive Impact on Educational Systems
Banki, SusanPublished 2012-01-01Book chapter -
Settling refugees in Australia: achievements and challenges
Fozdar, Farida; Banki, SusanPublished 2017-01-01This article examines the extent to which Australia fulfils its legal obligations for resettled refugees. This necessitates noting both the international frameworks that inform the rights accorded to refugees as well as ...Open AccessArticle -
Teaching Human Rights at the Tertiary Level: Addressing the ‘Knowing–Doing Gap’ through a Role-Based Simulation Approach
Banki, SusanPublished 2013-01-01Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies, and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism ...Open AccessArticle -
Toward a framework for assessing the ‘global’ and ‘citizen’ in global citizenship education in Australia and beyond
Thomas, Matthew A. M.; Banki, SusanPublished 2020In addition to its influences across economic, geopolitical, and social spheres, globalization has given rise to the notion of a ‘global citizen’ who is able to understand a shifting and more internationalized world while ...Article -
The Transformation of Homeland Politics in the Era of Resettlement: Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and the diaspora
Banki, SusanPublished 2013-01-01This article examines how resettled Bhutanese refugees who lived in refugee camps in Nepal for two decades perceive, understand, and interact with their “home” country of Bhutan in the political sphere. It draws on initial ...Open AccessArticle -
Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities.
Banki, SusanPublished 2013-01-01This article interrogates the link between urbanity and ‘precarity of place’ for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok ...Open AccessArticle -
Voluntourism and the Contract Collective
Banki, Susan; Schonell, RichardPublished 2018-01-01Critiques of the voluntourism industry focus on power imbalances, colonial legacies, and white privilege. Drawing on the literatures of development and voluntourism to find points of comparison, we argue that the voluntourism ...Open AccessArticle -
"We are the victims of the separation": A report on Bhutanese refugees remaining in Nepal
Banki, Susan; Phillips, NicolePublished 2014-01-01In the early 1990s tens of thousands of Lhotshampas, ethnic Nepalese from the southern region of Bhutan, fled their homeland through India and sought refuge in Nepal. More than 100,000 refugees lived in camps in eastern ...Open AccessOther
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