• Corpus ID: 79397550

Refugee communities intercultural dialogue: building relationships, building communities

@inproceedings{Saunders2015RefugeeCI,
  title={Refugee communities intercultural dialogue: building relationships, building communities},
  author={Vicky Saunders and Steven Roche and Morag McArthur and Fiona Arney and Tahereh Ziaian},
  year={2015}
}

• V. Saunders, Steven Roche, +2 authors T. Ziaian
• Published 17 October 2015
• Political Science

Overview This mixed-methods study, undertaken by the Institute of Child Protection Studies (ICPS), Australian Catholic University (ACU) and the Australian Centre for Child Protection (ACCP), University of South Australia (USA), on behalf of the Department of Social Services (DSS), was designed to provide in-depth and contextualised data about how services may better support refugee parents to care for their children. By developing a better understanding of the social supports, resources and connections required by refugee children and their parents to support positive parenting and family relationships, this project contributes to the development of a more responsive and integrated social policy and service delivery. A review of the literature highlights that families with a refugee background have often had frightening and traumatic experiences within their home country, which have led to their resettlement in Australia. Although Australia’s commitment to protecting refugees has increased considerably over the past two decades, it remains evident that many refugee families who receive protection within Australia continue to face enormous challenges. While many families are able to meet these challenges and settle well, family conflict and developing culturally appropriate parenting practices have been identified as significant problems by resettled refugee parents and young people (Saunders & McArthur, 2012).