Migrant Crisis Series

How unaccompanied youth become exploited workers in the US

Mar 14, 2017 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The Trump administration has released a series of executive orders targeting immigration at the U.S. southern border. Central American families and children traveling alone represent nearly half of all unauthorized...

Living next door to Alice (and Anh and Abdullah)

Mar 14, 2017 05:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Ethnic conflict is on the rise in Australia, with regular reports of racist abuse in public spaces, including transport, streets and shopping centres. But what about our more immediate domestic environments such as...

'Virtuous drivers, malicious cyclists' mindset gets us nowhere

Mar 13, 2017 04:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

I turn on the car radio and the radio station host asks listeners to call in to comment on the idea of introducing compulsory registration for cyclists. The conversations that follow illustrate once again that our roads...

Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens

Mar 10, 2017 03:28 am UTC| Life

There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily the case. In a study of children in Year 4 and 6,...

Contested spaces: living off the edge in a city mall where design fuels conflict

Mar 10, 2017 03:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

There are few more telling signs of conflict in urban spaces than calls to send in the police. Geelongs Little Malop Street Mall has been the subject of many such calls, as regular incidents keep the space in the media...

Seven tips for surviving the apocalypse

Mar 08, 2017 08:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Billionaires who have made their fortunes in Silicon Valley seem to be worried about the future. So worried in fact, that some of them are reportedly buying vast estates in places such as New Zealand, as apocalypse...

Contested spaces: you can't stop the music – the sounds that divide shoppers

Mar 08, 2017 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Sound is everywhere. In urban areas, it forms part of how we feel about and negotiate various social settings. The space we focus on here is the retail environment. Based on interviews with shoppers about the kinds of...