Once a refugee, always a refugee? The haunting of the refugee label in resettlement
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2021
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Baak, M.
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Silverstein, J.
Stevens, R.
Stevens, R.
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Source details - Title: Refugee Journeys: histories of resettlement, representation and resistance, 2021 / Silverstein, J., Stevens, R. (ed./s), Ch.2, pp.51-70
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On International Refugee Day 2018, Danijel Malbasa, a Melbourne-based industrial relations lawyer and a refugee of the Yugoslav wars, wrote of his desire growing up to distance himself from his refugee identity. He worked hard to ‘scrub out my strong Slavic accent, develop an Aussie drawl, take out the letter “j” from my name, even better anglicise it to “Dan”, get out of the ESL class’ and in doing this to ‘pass’ as Australian, to shun all the ‘stereotypical baggage that comes with declaring oneself a refugee’.³
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Copyright 2021 Australian National University. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)