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Caroline Lenette

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ID129751
NAMECaroline Lenette
GIVEN NAMESCaroline
FAMILY NAMELenette
SIGNATURELENETTE C
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-2317-0438
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS258
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9
  • Beyond Tokenism

    Open Access•Irene Gutiérrez-Torres, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Inquiry•2026•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    Academic researchers face significant challenges in achieving genuine participation during the dissemination phase when co-researching with forced migrants due to mobility restrictions, anonymity and security concerns, and limited time or resources. Co-dissemination often becomes tokenistic, perpetuating extractivist dynamics within neocolonial academic practice. Drawing on four initiatives in Spain, Belgium, and Australia that involve forced mig…

  • Revaluing Indigenous Models in Suicidology

    Open Access•Joanna Brooke, J N Brooke et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2025

    This review uses an anti-colonial approach to explore the characteristics of Indigenous interventions and best practice relating to suicidality. Well-established interventions led by Indigenous communities exist globally, yet their prevalence in academic discussions of suicide is comparatively limited. This represents a missed opportunity for the field of suicidology to learn from Indigenous community-driven models, which have the potential to be…

  • Consider a Less Risky Alternative’

    Open Access•Joanna Brooke, J N Brooke et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Empirical Research on…•2025

    This paper discusses key themes from the literature on navigating institutional ethics approval for suicide research. We used a narrative review approach to identify recurring issues that Research Ethics Committees (RECs) commonly raise as concerns and the strategies that might be effective to manage the intricacies of institutional processes. Six dominant themes were: risk aversion overshadowing benefits of suicide research; participant agency a…

  • Critical Suicide Studies

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2025•References: 1

    I have always loved the expression ‘Call for Papers’ and its elegant acronym CfP [...]

  • We are mirrored in your gaze’

    Open Access•Priya Vaughan, Katherine Boydell et al.•ARTICLE•Disability & Society•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    ‘We are mirrored in your gaze’: experiences and outcomes of stigma and discrimination for women with disability and mental distress

  • Adverse childhood experiences, social networks and help-seeking experiences of African-background refugee children

    Open Access•Amani Kasherwa, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2025•References: 9

  • I Can’t Even Talk to My Parents About It’

    Open Access•Amani Kasherwa, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2024•References: 9

    The issue of suicide has garnered considerable attention in refugee scholarship, where research examines how unique forced migration and resettlement challenges exacerbate risks and vulnerabilities to suicide. However, there are gaps in understanding the social and cultural factors shaping the lived experience of suicide in refugee communities. Using the example of young people of African backgrounds in Australia, this paper presents a collaborat…

  • My Dad Was, Is a Soldier

    Open Access•Lydia Wanja Gitau, Achol Arop et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    The topics of intergenerational trauma, resilience, and wellbeing as they relate to forced migration are receiving more attention in the arts and health literature. Yet, we know very little about how refugee-background young adults manage their psychosocial wellbeing when they grow up surrounded by stories of conflict, loss, and trauma. Achol has been writing poetry to represent and amplify the narratives of those around her (parents, family, and…

  • Suicide Research with Refugee Communities

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 37

    People from refugee backgrounds experience distinctively complex situations pre- and post-resettlement and are at heightened risks of suicide. The bulk of research on refugee suicide and suicidal ideation is based on diagnostic perspectives, biomedical approaches, and quantitative measures. To explore lived experience of suicide among refugee communities in more depth, this review highlights the need for qualitative, creative methods and a differ…

  • Participatory Action Research

    Caroline Lenette•BOOK•Participatory Action Research•2022

    Participatory Action Research (PAR) models are increasingly used in disciplines such as social sciences and health to actively engage people with lived experiences as co-researchers and act on findings to improve their lives. In recent years, the potential of PAR to yield meaningful benefits via collaborative research activities with people who are multiply marginalized and excluded from dominant forms of knowledge production has gained more reco…

  • The Importance of Local and Global Social Ties for the Mental Health and Well-Being of Recently Resettled Refugee-Background Women in Australia

    Open Access•Kate Murray, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    Social connections are foundational to the human condition and are inherently disrupted when people are forcibly displaced from their home countries. At a time of record high global forced migration, there is value in better understanding how refugee-background individuals engage theirsocial supports or ties in resettlement contexts. A mixed methods research design aimed to understand the complexities of how 104 refugee-background women experienc…

  • Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support their children or siblings with disability

    Louisa Smith, Isabelle Chesher et al.•ARTICLE•Disability & Society•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Refugees with disability and their families are increasingly resettled in Australia but remain an under-researched group. As such, this study aimed to understand experiences of disability for humanitarian migrants who support a family member with a disability. Interviews took place with 10 family members from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds living in Australia, whose children or siblings had disability. BenEzer and Zetter’s conceptualisation…

  • Who is the Host? Interrogating Hosting from Refugee-Background Women's Perspectives

    Josie Gardner, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 23

    This paper explores refugee-background women’s concepts of hosts and hosting in resettlement. The refugee studies literature generally uses the term ‘host communities’ to describe a country’s citizens or established communities who interact with and may assist newcomers to build a new life. However, findings from our walking interviews project with a small group of refugee-background women in Sydney, Australia suggest that these women were active…

  • How can Story Completion be Used in Culturally Safe Ways

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Priya Vaughan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 43

    Story completion is a narrative inquiry method where participants complete a story from an opening hypothetical scenario or 'stem' that researchers create. While interest in this method is growing across disciplines due to its emancipatory potential, the literature fails to address how story completion can be used in culturally safe ways. Cultural safety in research means that it is the participants who determine whether the process values and pr…

  • Facilitated arts engagement with women veterans for health and well-being

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Tanja Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Applied Arts and Health•2021

    To demonstrate the health and well-being benefits of facilitated arts engagement with women veterans, we draw on a key practice-based example from the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM), an organization with expertise in collaborative art-making with veterans. We outline ANVAM’s framework and the processes art therapists use to create facilitated art exhibitions. We discuss how veterans’ involvement with art-making has therapeutic b…

  • Short Take

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Josie Gardner•ARTICLE•CAM•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Walking interviews generate contextualized dialogs and place-based narratives prompted by sites and routes. We used walking interviews with three refugee-background women in Australia to find out what the act of walking could reveal about notions of home and broader narratives of forced migration. We used a participatory approach to privilege women's perspectives as co-creators of new knowledge on the topic

  • Persistent psychological distress in resettled refugee women-at-risk at one-year follow-up

    Open Access•Lyn Vromans, Robert D Schweitzer et al.•ARTICLE•Transcultural Psychiatric…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 51

    The mental health of women has been largely neglected in the refugee literature, notwithstanding the specific gender-related issues that confront women seeking asylum. Furthermore, a specific category of women, deemed to be women-at-risk, face particular challenges in their journey and resettlement process. This longitudinal study investigated psychological distress in refugee women-at-risk one year after resettlement in Australia. Follow-up surv…

  • Self-Representation in Participatory Video Research

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Isobel Blomfield et al.•ARTICLE•Art/Research International A…•2020

    Participatory video involves co-researchers using digital or video cameras to create their own videos and present issues according to their sense of what is important. In 2018, the authors—including three co-researchers from refugee backgrounds—collaborated through participatory video research to document views on better access and participation in higher education. Here, we reflect on key ethical issues encountered and share lessons learnt from …

  • Women and Stigma

    Open Access•Katherine M Boydell, Katherine Boydell et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    This paper outlines a research and dissemination protocol to be undertaken with specific groups of marginalised women in Australia. Women impacted by significant mental distress, disability, or refugee status are among society's most vulnerable and disenfranchised groups. They can experience significant social exclusion, marginalisation and stigma, associated with reduced help seeking, deprivation of dignity and human rights, and threats to healt…

  • Exploring the intersection of human rights, health, disability and refugee status

    Ruth Wells, Mahmoud Murad et al.•ARTICLE•Australian Journal of Human Rights•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 10

    Refugees often come from countries with histories of human rights violations and can face multiple challenges in building a new life in Australia. Little is known about the specific experiences of those who also live with a disability, and how this may impact their rights to health. We present an intersectional approach to using arts-based research to bring to light the embodied experiences of these people, who live at the intersection of multipl…

  • Enabling Pathways for Students from Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Backgrounds in Higher Education

    Open Access•Catherine Clark, Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Refugee Survey Quarterly•2020•Cited by: 2

    University students from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds (SRABs) have unique resettlement experiences related to disrupted education, family expectations, financial pressures, and visa uncertainty. These arduous experiences often translate into a strong determination to access education and persevere with tertiary studies. Supportive educational trajectories are crucial to increase social cohesion and help redress the personal and social di…

  • To the Arabic Community Disability Is Not Normal’

    Open Access•Angela Dew, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 3

    In 2015, the Australian government committed to take an additional 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq prioritizing those considered most vulnerable including people with disability. The aim of this preliminary study was to understand, from multiple stakeholder perspectives, the experiences of settling in Australia for people with disability from Syrian and Iraqi refugee backgrounds living in Sydney. Interviews were conducted with nine family mem…

  • We Were Not Merely Participating; We Were Leading the Discussions

    Caroline Lenette, Arash Bordbar et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    There is increased commitment to the participation and self-representation of people with lived experiences as refugees and asylum seekers in advocacy, especially at international, high-level events. However, we know very little about what opportunities and challenges such processes present. This paper reports on findings from a research project on youth participation and self-representation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (U…

  • Social Context Matters

    Ignacio Correa-Velez, Aleana Green et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2020•Cited by: 10•References: 64

    Little is known about the predictors of quality of life among refugee women. 104 refugee women-at-risk were recruited within 6 months of arriving in Australia. A structured questionnaire was administered using standardized tools to assess pre-migration trauma, post-migration living difficulties, social capital, social networks, and quality of life. Hierarchical multiple and logistic regressions assessed factors predicting quality of life. Post-mi…

  • Arts-Based Methods in Refugee Research

    Caroline Lenette•BOOK•Arts-Based Methods in Refugee…•2019

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  • Everyday resilience

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Mark Brough et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Social Work•2012•Cited by: 60•References: 6

    This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or 'bounce back' to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person-envir…

  • Visual ethnography and refugee women

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Jennifer Boddy•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2013•Cited by: 24•References: 22

    Purpose This paper aims to reinforce the significance of visual ethnography as a tool for mental health promotion. Design/methodology/approach Visual ethnography has become an established methodology particularly in qualitative studies, to understand specific themes within participants’ everyday realities. Beyond providing a visual element, such methods allow for meaningful and nuanced explorations of sensitive themes, allowing richer sets of dat…

  • Some viewers may find the following images disturbing’

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Natasa Miskovic•ARTICLE•Crime Media Culture An…•2016•Cited by: 18•References: 11

    The emotional reaction and outrage following the publication of photographs of Alan Kurdi who drowned while crossing borders in September 2015 highlighted the major impact visual representations of refugee deaths at border crossings can have on public opinions and political will. The impact of these photographs also shows that depictions of deaths as a result of border crossings are relatively rare in the media; analyses of such representations a…

  • What Is "Successful" Resettlement? Refugee Narratives From Regional New South Wales in Australia

    Oscar Curry, Charlotte Smedley et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 16

    This paper explores how people from refugee backgrounds experienced regional resettlement in New South Wales, Australia, by focusing on their narratives of determinants of “successful” resettlement. Semi-structured interviews with nine refugee participants in 2016 revealed challenges in relation to employment, social networks and relationships, and support services. While such challenges are consistent with research in metropolitan cities, there …

  • Digital Storytelling as a Social Work Tool

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, L Cox et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Cited by: 15•References: 23

    This paper reflects on the wider potential of digital narratives as a useful tool for social work practitioners. Despite the multiple points of connection between narrative approaches and social work, the influence of narratives on practice remains limited. A case study of a digital storytelling (DST) process employed in a research project with a small group of lone mothers from refugee backgrounds is used to trigger discussion of broader applica…

  • Media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in regional Australia

    Open Access•Shauna M Cooper, Samantha Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Media International Australia•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 15

    Despite significant research into media and political coverage of refugees and asylum seekers, and ongoing Commonwealth policies to resettle refugees to regional areas, analysis of the regional press is lacking. We reviewed articles from four regional newspapers using quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis to examine some initial trends in how regional newspapers represent refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the dominant …

  • Where words fail, music speaks

    Caroline Lenette, Donna Weston et al.•ARTICLE•Arts & Health•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 8

    There is growing evidence that participatory music can be supportive and empowering for marginalised, culturally diverse populations. Amid largely hostile reception of asylum seekers in Australia, a group of music facilitators regularly attends an Immigration Transit Accommodation facility to share music and singing activities with detained asylum seekers, to counter significant mental and emotional distress resulting from indefinite detention. M…

  • Social Context Matters

    Ignacio Correa-Velez, Aleana Green et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2020•Cited by: 10•References: 64

    Little is known about the predictors of quality of life among refugee women. 104 refugee women-at-risk were recruited within 6 months of arriving in Australia. A structured questionnaire was administered using standardized tools to assess pre-migration trauma, post-migration living difficulties, social capital, social networks, and quality of life. Hierarchical multiple and logistic regressions assessed factors predicting quality of life. Post-mi…

  • Artistic Representations of Refugees

    Isobel Blomfield, Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 30

    The literature on ethical considerations for artists involved in collaborative projects with refugees and asylum seekers is sparse, indicating a lack of robust discussions on the ethical pitfalls artists may encounter in such endeavours. Based on the first author’s reflections on her subjective experiences as an artist representing the story of a young Somali asylum seeker woman through collaborative filmmaking, this paper aims to open up broader…

  • Will there be music for us?” Mapping the health and well-being potential of participatory music practice with asylum seekers and refugees across contexts of conflict and refuge

    Caroline Lenette, Naomi Sunderland•ARTICLE•Arts & Health•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 10

    Background: This paper draws on existing literature across the fields of community music and health promotion to map the potential for participatory music practices to support health and well-being outcomes for asylum seekers and refugees across contexts of conflict, liminality and refuge. As such, the paper provides a foundation for future empirical work in the field of music and health for asylum seekers and refugees. Methods: The paper reports…

  • I am a Widow, Mother and Refugee

    Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    The sparse literature on contemporary narratives of widowhood among refugee women as a consequence of conflict situations indicates that this aspect of lived experience is relatively unexplored. While loss is integral to the refugee journey, there is a paucity of analysis of how the sudden loss of a spouse under such circumstances can compound resettlement anxieties, particularly when women raise children alone. By exploring meanings attached to …

  • Persistent psychological distress in resettled refugee women-at-risk at one-year follow-up

    Open Access•Lyn Vromans, Robert D Schweitzer et al.•ARTICLE•Transcultural Psychiatric…•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 51

    The mental health of women has been largely neglected in the refugee literature, notwithstanding the specific gender-related issues that confront women seeking asylum. Furthermore, a specific category of women, deemed to be women-at-risk, face particular challenges in their journey and resettlement process. This longitudinal study investigated psychological distress in refugee women-at-risk one year after resettlement in Australia. Follow-up surv…

  • My Dad Was, Is a Soldier

    Open Access•Lydia Wanja Gitau, Achol Arop et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 40

    The topics of intergenerational trauma, resilience, and wellbeing as they relate to forced migration are receiving more attention in the arts and health literature. Yet, we know very little about how refugee-background young adults manage their psychosocial wellbeing when they grow up surrounded by stories of conflict, loss, and trauma. Achol has been writing poetry to represent and amplify the narratives of those around her (parents, family, and…

  • Suicide Research with Refugee Communities

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Social Sciences•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 37

    People from refugee backgrounds experience distinctively complex situations pre- and post-resettlement and are at heightened risks of suicide. The bulk of research on refugee suicide and suicidal ideation is based on diagnostic perspectives, biomedical approaches, and quantitative measures. To explore lived experience of suicide among refugee communities in more depth, this review highlights the need for qualitative, creative methods and a differ…

  • How can Story Completion be Used in Culturally Safe Ways

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Priya Vaughan et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 43

    Story completion is a narrative inquiry method where participants complete a story from an opening hypothetical scenario or 'stem' that researchers create. While interest in this method is growing across disciplines due to its emancipatory potential, the literature fails to address how story completion can be used in culturally safe ways. Cultural safety in research means that it is the participants who determine whether the process values and pr…

  • Short Take

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Josie Gardner•ARTICLE•CAM•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Walking interviews generate contextualized dialogs and place-based narratives prompted by sites and routes. We used walking interviews with three refugee-background women in Australia to find out what the act of walking could reveal about notions of home and broader narratives of forced migration. We used a participatory approach to privilege women's perspectives as co-creators of new knowledge on the topic

  • To the Arabic Community Disability Is Not Normal’

    Open Access•Angela Dew, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 3

    In 2015, the Australian government committed to take an additional 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq prioritizing those considered most vulnerable including people with disability. The aim of this preliminary study was to understand, from multiple stakeholder perspectives, the experiences of settling in Australia for people with disability from Syrian and Iraqi refugee backgrounds living in Sydney. Interviews were conducted with nine family mem…

  • Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support their children or siblings with disability

    Louisa Smith, Isabelle Chesher et al.•ARTICLE•Disability & Society•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Refugees with disability and their families are increasingly resettled in Australia but remain an under-researched group. As such, this study aimed to understand experiences of disability for humanitarian migrants who support a family member with a disability. Interviews took place with 10 family members from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds living in Australia, whose children or siblings had disability. BenEzer and Zetter’s conceptualisation…

  • Mothers & Daughters

    Caroline Lenette, Apuk Maror et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 32

    A group of South Sudanese women came together in 2018 to share artistic and cultural practices with one another during a series of creative workshops at a community art gallery in Sydney, Australia. We collaborated with the women to organise workshop activities and a community event to showcase their cultural artefacts and items created during the workshops. Through a research-arts partnership, we documented women’s conversations about their arti…

  • Exploring the intersection of human rights, health, disability and refugee status

    Ruth Wells, Mahmoud Murad et al.•ARTICLE•Australian Journal of Human Rights•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 10

    Refugees often come from countries with histories of human rights violations and can face multiple challenges in building a new life in Australia. Little is known about the specific experiences of those who also live with a disability, and how this may impact their rights to health. We present an intersectional approach to using arts-based research to bring to light the embodied experiences of these people, who live at the intersection of multipl…

  • We Were Not Merely Participating; We Were Leading the Discussions

    Caroline Lenette, Arash Bordbar et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    There is increased commitment to the participation and self-representation of people with lived experiences as refugees and asylum seekers in advocacy, especially at international, high-level events. However, we know very little about what opportunities and challenges such processes present. This paper reports on findings from a research project on youth participation and self-representation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (U…

  • Lessons of Survival

    Paula Jops, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    This article explores the influence of social networks and social capital on Chin refugee women as they negotiate survival in their country of first asylum, India. Findings indicate that the participants’ social networks were vital for day-to-day survival, but they served as a means for short-term coping, rather than long-term adaptation. This is not to negate the importance of the resources; without the community knowledge, livelihood linkages, …

  • Enabling Pathways for Students from Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Backgrounds in Higher Education

    Open Access•Catherine Clark, Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Refugee Survey Quarterly•2020•Cited by: 2

    University students from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds (SRABs) have unique resettlement experiences related to disrupted education, family expectations, financial pressures, and visa uncertainty. These arduous experiences often translate into a strong determination to access education and persevere with tertiary studies. Supportive educational trajectories are crucial to increase social cohesion and help redress the personal and social di…

  • Political cartoons and host nations’ public dispositions toward integration

    Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Peace and Conflict Journal of…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Political cartoons can reflect particular ideologies or events at the forefront of public discourse or debate in a "snapshot," and be effective in capturing incongruences in political rhetoric through satire and caricature. In Australia and overseas, there is an abundance of political cartoons depicting refugee policy tensions. However, there is surprisingly little analysis on how cartoons impact opinions about refugees and shape public dispositi…

  • What is it like living in detention? Insights from asylum seeker children’s drawings

    Caroline Lenette, Prasheela Karan et al.•ARTICLE•Australian Journal of Human Rights•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    Despite considerable research on the impact of Australia’s mandatory detention policy on children, there is sparse focus on asylum seeker children’s own perspectives of how they conceptualise their experiences of living in detention. We were curious to understand how children in detention would convey their views on their circumstances through the medium of drawing. This paper uses secondary data analysis to explore children’s perspectives by con…

  • Everyday resilience

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Mark Brough et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Social Work•2012•Cited by: 60•References: 6

    This article offers a critical exploration of the concept of resilience, which is largely conceptualized in the literature as an extraordinary atypical personal ability to revert or 'bounce back' to a point of equilibrium despite significant adversity. While resilience has been explored in a range of contexts, there is little recognition of resilience as a social process arising from mundane practices of everyday life and situated in person-envir…

  • Visual ethnography and refugee women

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Jennifer Boddy•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2013•Cited by: 24•References: 22

    Purpose This paper aims to reinforce the significance of visual ethnography as a tool for mental health promotion. Design/methodology/approach Visual ethnography has become an established methodology particularly in qualitative studies, to understand specific themes within participants’ everyday realities. Beyond providing a visual element, such methods allow for meaningful and nuanced explorations of sensitive themes, allowing richer sets of dat…

  • Refugee women

    Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2013

  • I am a Widow, Mother and Refugee

    Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2013•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    The sparse literature on contemporary narratives of widowhood among refugee women as a consequence of conflict situations indicates that this aspect of lived experience is relatively unexplored. While loss is integral to the refugee journey, there is a paucity of analysis of how the sudden loss of a spouse under such circumstances can compound resettlement anxieties, particularly when women raise children alone. By exploring meanings attached to …

  • Will there be music for us?” Mapping the health and well-being potential of participatory music practice with asylum seekers and refugees across contexts of conflict and refuge

    Caroline Lenette, Naomi Sunderland•ARTICLE•Arts & Health•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 10

    Background: This paper draws on existing literature across the fields of community music and health promotion to map the potential for participatory music practices to support health and well-being outcomes for asylum seekers and refugees across contexts of conflict, liminality and refuge. As such, the paper provides a foundation for future empirical work in the field of music and health for asylum seekers and refugees. Methods: The paper reports…

  • They [do more than] Interrupt Us from Sadness

    Open Access•Naomi Sunderland, Lauren Istvandity et al.•ARTICLE•Health Culture and Society•2015

    This paper reports on the outcomes of an exploratory narrative study on the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health (SDOH) and wellbeing for refugees in Brisbane, Australia. A key component of this exploratory research was to map health and wellbeing outcomes of music participation using an existing SDOH framework developed by researchers in the field of health promotion (Schulz & Northridge, 2004). This paper maps r…

  • Where words fail, music speaks

    Caroline Lenette, Donna Weston et al.•ARTICLE•Arts & Health•2015•Cited by: 11•References: 8

    There is growing evidence that participatory music can be supportive and empowering for marginalised, culturally diverse populations. Amid largely hostile reception of asylum seekers in Australia, a group of music facilitators regularly attends an Immigration Transit Accommodation facility to share music and singing activities with detained asylum seekers, to counter significant mental and emotional distress resulting from indefinite detention. M…

  • Don’t Silence “the Dinosaurs”

    Pooja Sawrikar, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Teaching in Social Work•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 1

    Distance education (DE) in social work programs and studies on its comparable effectiveness with face-to-face education continue to increase. Yet not all faculty are convinced of the results, and this study explores why. Three case studies indicate that reservations center on valuing the process of learning and nonverbal communication. Issues regarding duty of care to families to be served by future social workers primarily educated in a virtual …

  • Digital Storytelling as a Social Work Tool

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, L Cox et al.•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Social Work•2015•Cited by: 15•References: 23

    This paper reflects on the wider potential of digital narratives as a useful tool for social work practitioners. Despite the multiple points of connection between narrative approaches and social work, the influence of narratives on practice remains limited. A case study of a digital storytelling (DST) process employed in a research project with a small group of lone mothers from refugee backgrounds is used to trigger discussion of broader applica…

  • Performing freedom

    Donna Weston, Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016

    This article puts forward a reimagining of the concept of community in an immigration detention centre that emerged from the creation of cultural and performative spaces. It is argued that conceptualizing immigration detention centres as accidental communities can contribute to an understanding of the impact of participatory music-making activities in these spaces on the well-being of detainees. The research is based on the analysis of music faci…

  • Epistemic communities

    Naomi Sunderland, Penelope Graham et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2016

    This article reflects on the many diverse professionals who often come together around complex community music programmes to exercise and voice their own values and commitment to social justice and to work together to make a change more broadly in society. Drawing on a qualitative case study of an Australian refugee and asylum-seeker music programme, we argue that such diverse and values oriented music facilitation teams and their surrounding net…

  • Some viewers may find the following images disturbing’

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette, Natasa Miskovic•ARTICLE•Crime Media Culture An…•2016•Cited by: 18•References: 11

    The emotional reaction and outrage following the publication of photographs of Alan Kurdi who drowned while crossing borders in September 2015 highlighted the major impact visual representations of refugee deaths at border crossings can have on public opinions and political will. The impact of these photographs also shows that depictions of deaths as a result of border crossings are relatively rare in the media; analyses of such representations a…

  • The most brutal immigration regime in the developed world”

    Open Access•Hannah M Laney, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge•2016•Cited by: 2

    Despite intense media coverage of Australia’s asylum- seeker policy, there is minimal attention to structures and processes that influence international media perspectives. This article explores international media responses to Australia’s policy using a mixed-method approach. Our research focused on twenty-five articles from international media outlets surrounding the 2014 “riots” at Manus Island Regional Processing Centre. Three major themes (p…

  • A Context of Risk

    Open Access•Paula Jops, Caroline Lenette et al.•ARTICLE•Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge•2016•Cited by: 2

    In India, the livelihood spaces that refugee women from Chin State, Burma, have carved for themselves in their country of first asylum remain relatively unexplored. This article focuses on Chin refugee women’s pursuit of liveli- hood in Delhi in 2012–13. The concept of “livelihood” is a starting point to better understand the women’s work experiences and explore the associated risks affecting their well-being. Emerging findings indicate that perv…

  • Digital Storytelling in Research

    Open Access•Adèle de Jager, Andrea Fogarty et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Report•2017

    Digital storytelling refers to a 2 to 5 minute audio-visual clip combining photographs, voice-over narration, and other audio (Lambert, 2009) originally applied for community development, artistic and therapeutic purposes, and more recently adapted as an arts-based research method. To date, no systematic review of the use of digital storytelling in a research capacity, to generate information about a phenomenon has been conducted. Accordingly, ou…

  • What is it like living in detention? Insights from asylum seeker children’s drawings

    Caroline Lenette, Prasheela Karan et al.•ARTICLE•Australian Journal of Human Rights•2017•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    Despite considerable research on the impact of Australia’s mandatory detention policy on children, there is sparse focus on asylum seeker children’s own perspectives of how they conceptualise their experiences of living in detention. We were curious to understand how children in detention would convey their views on their circumstances through the medium of drawing. This paper uses secondary data analysis to explore children’s perspectives by con…

  • Media coverage of refugees and asylum seekers in regional Australia

    Open Access•Shauna M Cooper, Samantha Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•Media International Australia•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 15

    Despite significant research into media and political coverage of refugees and asylum seekers, and ongoing Commonwealth policies to resettle refugees to regional areas, analysis of the regional press is lacking. We reviewed articles from four regional newspapers using quantitative content analysis and qualitative content analysis to examine some initial trends in how regional newspapers represent refugees and asylum seekers. Despite the dominant …

  • Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Loss Scale with Refugee Women-at-Risk Recently Arrived in Australia

    Open Access•Lyn Vromans, Robert Schweitzer et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant and Minority…•2018

  • Political cartoons and host nations’ public dispositions toward integration

    Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Peace and Conflict Journal of…•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Political cartoons can reflect particular ideologies or events at the forefront of public discourse or debate in a "snapshot," and be effective in capturing incongruences in political rhetoric through satire and caricature. In Australia and overseas, there is an abundance of political cartoons depicting refugee policy tensions. However, there is surprisingly little analysis on how cartoons impact opinions about refugees and shape public dispositi…

  • Stranded at Sea

    Open Access•Jenny Yeung, Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Qualitative Report•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    Visual representations can contribute to shaping how the general public perceives and engages with issues of forced migration. In 2015, thousands of Rohingya became stranded in the Bay of Bengal when smugglers abandoned them on unseaworthy boats and regional governments refused their disembarkation. Their ordeal made headlines across the globe and photographs documenting the crisis were widely disseminated. This paper applies visual-social semiot…

  • What Is "Successful" Resettlement? Refugee Narratives From Regional New South Wales in Australia

    Oscar Curry, Charlotte Smedley et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 16

    This paper explores how people from refugee backgrounds experienced regional resettlement in New South Wales, Australia, by focusing on their narratives of determinants of “successful” resettlement. Semi-structured interviews with nine refugee participants in 2016 revealed challenges in relation to employment, social networks and relationships, and support services. While such challenges are consistent with research in metropolitan cities, there …

  • Artistic Representations of Refugees

    Isobel Blomfield, Caroline Lenette•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 30

    The literature on ethical considerations for artists involved in collaborative projects with refugees and asylum seekers is sparse, indicating a lack of robust discussions on the ethical pitfalls artists may encounter in such endeavours. Based on the first author’s reflections on her subjective experiences as an artist representing the story of a young Somali asylum seeker woman through collaborative filmmaking, this paper aims to open up broader…

  • Arts-Based Methods in Refugee Research

    Caroline Lenette•BOOK•Arts-Based Methods in Refugee…•2019

  • Sanctuary

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette•CHAPTER•Arts-Based Methods in Refugee…•2019

  • Arts-Based Methods in Refugee Research

    Open Access•Caroline Lenette•BOOK•Arts-Based Methods in Refugee…•2019

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