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No Place Like Home: Resilience Among Adolescent Refugees Resettled in Australia

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There is nothing that brings out genuine human endeavour and courage more than the refugee experience. There is nothing like having to cling to every bare breath, to see life reduced to a scarce trickle… Very rarely do we get to see human nature stripped of all that it depends on to learn that human nature is itself enough.

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This research could not have been conducted without the altruism of teachers, parents and students at the Adelaide Secondary School for English and the support of staff in the ESL programme, Department of Education and Children’s Services, South Australia. The author also acknowledges her great debt to Joh Henley, Megan Reeve and Amanda Wallace for data collection and to Michael Oliver, Katie Selby and Dunjar Nedic for assistance in data analysis.

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Robinson, J.A. (2013). No Place Like Home: Resilience Among Adolescent Refugees Resettled in Australia. In: Fernando, C., Ferrari, M. (eds) Handbook of Resilience in Children of War. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6375-7_14

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