Farida Tilbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farida Tilbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farida |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilbury |
| SIGNATURE | TILBURY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 245 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sperm Milkshakes with Poo Sprinkles’
This article contributes to a long‐overdue discussion about research with adolescents. While young people are now recognised as competent and reliable participants, there are particular difficulties associated with using adolescents as respondents. Furthermore, it is rare for young people’s reactions to the research process to be heard. This article reports on some of the methodological challenges faced in designing and administering a Web‐based …
Piggy in the Middle
This paper considers the challenges faced by contract researchers employed on interdisciplinary, cross institutional research projects. It argues that current funding requirements and a general fashion for 'collaborative' research have produced growing numbers of contract researchers employed to carry out other people's research. These contract researchers are caught, like a 'piggy in the middle', between disciplinary boundaries, geographic sites…
Being black in Australia
This article presents a case study in Australia's race relations, focusing on tensions between urban Aborigines and recently resettled African refugees, particularly among young people. Both of these groups are of low socio-economic status and are highly visible in the context of a predominantly white Australia. The relationship between them, it is argued, reflects the history of strained race relations in modern Australia and a growing antipathy…
“I Feel I Am a Bird Without Wings”
Using data from a qualitative study of understandings and experiences of “depression” among a number of East African communities in Western Australia, this article explores the dimensions of sadness and loss expressed by migrants and refugees. After discussing the parameters and cross-cultural (ir)relevance of the Western biomedical notion of “depression” (Kleinman and Good 1985 Kleinman, Arthur and Good, Byron, eds. 1985. Culture and Depression:…
Integration into the Australian Labour Market
This paper explores the effects of “visible difference” on employment outcomes of three recently arrived refugee 2 groups: ex‐Yugoslavs, black Africans, and people from the Middle East. The paper draws on data collected through a survey (150 questionnaire‐based face‐to‐face interviews conducted by bilingual interviewers) of refugees who settled in Western Australia over the past decade. Results indicate different outcomes for respondents from the…
We are Family
This paper explores the ways in which the language of family is used to define the relationship between advocates and the refugees they are helping to settle. Using extracts from interviews with members of the community of Albany, a rural centre 400 kms south of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, terms such as ‘child’, ‘the boys’, and ‘mother’, are identified and their functions explored. The use of the terms simultaneously constructs and r…
Deflecting responsibility in employer talk about race discrimination
This article explores a number of discursive devices used by employers when talking about employment market issues for migrants in Australia. Data come from a research project which sought to understand barriers to employment for ‘visibly different’ refugees and new migrants. Analysis reveals that employers use a number of rhetorical strategies, embedded within broader racist discourses, to deflect attention from their own possible culpability in…
There are orphans in Africa still looking for my hands
This paper explores issues of emotional distress expressed by refugee women from Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea who now live in Western Australia. Qualitative data from interviews and focus groups are used to illustrate differences in understandings of distress, including depression and anxiety, and women's understandings of the causes of, and solutions to, what have been defined by service providers as 'mental health' problems. The finding…
Active” and “Passive” Resettlement
This paper explores the process of resettlement among recent refugees in Perth, Western Australia. We propose four refugee resettlement styles created through the interaction of a number of factors. These factors can be clustered as: (1) the social features of refugees (their human, social, and cultural capital), and (2) the host society's responses to refugee settlers (Australia's resettlement policy and services and the broader influence of the…
About a year before the breakdown I was having symptoms
Portrayals of mental illness in the media reportedly highlight violence and crime by the 'mentally ill'. Using a discourse analytic approach we investigated representations of 'depression' in the print media in Australia during the year 2000. Unlike other 'mental illnesses', in the case of depression the media stress the need for the protection of the sufferer, rather than others. Three key discourses are identified - the biomedical, the psycho-s…
Integration into the Australian Labour Market
This paper explores the effects of “visible difference” on employment outcomes of three recently arrived refugee 2 groups: ex‐Yugoslavs, black Africans, and people from the Middle East. The paper draws on data collected through a survey (150 questionnaire‐based face‐to‐face interviews conducted by bilingual interviewers) of refugees who settled in Western Australia over the past decade. Results indicate different outcomes for respondents from the…
Active” and “Passive” Resettlement
This paper explores the process of resettlement among recent refugees in Perth, Western Australia. We propose four refugee resettlement styles created through the interaction of a number of factors. These factors can be clustered as: (1) the social features of refugees (their human, social, and cultural capital), and (2) the host society's responses to refugee settlers (Australia's resettlement policy and services and the broader influence of the…
Deflecting responsibility in employer talk about race discrimination
This article explores a number of discursive devices used by employers when talking about employment market issues for migrants in Australia. Data come from a research project which sought to understand barriers to employment for ‘visibly different’ refugees and new migrants. Analysis reveals that employers use a number of rhetorical strategies, embedded within broader racist discourses, to deflect attention from their own possible culpability in…
Being black in Australia
This article presents a case study in Australia's race relations, focusing on tensions between urban Aborigines and recently resettled African refugees, particularly among young people. Both of these groups are of low socio-economic status and are highly visible in the context of a predominantly white Australia. The relationship between them, it is argued, reflects the history of strained race relations in modern Australia and a growing antipathy…
About a year before the breakdown I was having symptoms
Portrayals of mental illness in the media reportedly highlight violence and crime by the 'mentally ill'. Using a discourse analytic approach we investigated representations of 'depression' in the print media in Australia during the year 2000. Unlike other 'mental illnesses', in the case of depression the media stress the need for the protection of the sufferer, rather than others. Three key discourses are identified - the biomedical, the psycho-s…
We are Family
This paper explores the ways in which the language of family is used to define the relationship between advocates and the refugees they are helping to settle. Using extracts from interviews with members of the community of Albany, a rural centre 400 kms south of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, terms such as ‘child’, ‘the boys’, and ‘mother’, are identified and their functions explored. The use of the terms simultaneously constructs and r…
There are orphans in Africa still looking for my hands
This paper explores issues of emotional distress expressed by refugee women from Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea who now live in Western Australia. Qualitative data from interviews and focus groups are used to illustrate differences in understandings of distress, including depression and anxiety, and women's understandings of the causes of, and solutions to, what have been defined by service providers as 'mental health' problems. The finding…
Sperm Milkshakes with Poo Sprinkles’
This article contributes to a long‐overdue discussion about research with adolescents. While young people are now recognised as competent and reliable participants, there are particular difficulties associated with using adolescents as respondents. Furthermore, it is rare for young people’s reactions to the research process to be heard. This article reports on some of the methodological challenges faced in designing and administering a Web‐based …
Piggy in the Middle
This paper considers the challenges faced by contract researchers employed on interdisciplinary, cross institutional research projects. It argues that current funding requirements and a general fashion for 'collaborative' research have produced growing numbers of contract researchers employed to carry out other people's research. These contract researchers are caught, like a 'piggy in the middle', between disciplinary boundaries, geographic sites…
Active” and “Passive” Resettlement
This paper explores the process of resettlement among recent refugees in Perth, Western Australia. We propose four refugee resettlement styles created through the interaction of a number of factors. These factors can be clustered as: (1) the social features of refugees (their human, social, and cultural capital), and (2) the host society's responses to refugee settlers (Australia's resettlement policy and services and the broader influence of the…
About a year before the breakdown I was having symptoms
Portrayals of mental illness in the media reportedly highlight violence and crime by the 'mentally ill'. Using a discourse analytic approach we investigated representations of 'depression' in the print media in Australia during the year 2000. Unlike other 'mental illnesses', in the case of depression the media stress the need for the protection of the sufferer, rather than others. Three key discourses are identified - the biomedical, the psycho-s…
There are orphans in Africa still looking for my hands
This paper explores issues of emotional distress expressed by refugee women from Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea who now live in Western Australia. Qualitative data from interviews and focus groups are used to illustrate differences in understandings of distress, including depression and anxiety, and women's understandings of the causes of, and solutions to, what have been defined by service providers as 'mental health' problems. The finding…
Deflecting responsibility in employer talk about race discrimination
This article explores a number of discursive devices used by employers when talking about employment market issues for migrants in Australia. Data come from a research project which sought to understand barriers to employment for ‘visibly different’ refugees and new migrants. Analysis reveals that employers use a number of rhetorical strategies, embedded within broader racist discourses, to deflect attention from their own possible culpability in…
“I Feel I Am a Bird Without Wings”
Using data from a qualitative study of understandings and experiences of “depression” among a number of East African communities in Western Australia, this article explores the dimensions of sadness and loss expressed by migrants and refugees. After discussing the parameters and cross-cultural (ir)relevance of the Western biomedical notion of “depression” (Kleinman and Good 1985 Kleinman, Arthur and Good, Byron, eds. 1985. Culture and Depression:…
Integration into the Australian Labour Market
This paper explores the effects of “visible difference” on employment outcomes of three recently arrived refugee 2 groups: ex‐Yugoslavs, black Africans, and people from the Middle East. The paper draws on data collected through a survey (150 questionnaire‐based face‐to‐face interviews conducted by bilingual interviewers) of refugees who settled in Western Australia over the past decade. Results indicate different outcomes for respondents from the…
We are Family
This paper explores the ways in which the language of family is used to define the relationship between advocates and the refugees they are helping to settle. Using extracts from interviews with members of the community of Albany, a rural centre 400 kms south of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, terms such as ‘child’, ‘the boys’, and ‘mother’, are identified and their functions explored. The use of the terms simultaneously constructs and r…
Sperm Milkshakes with Poo Sprinkles’
This article contributes to a long‐overdue discussion about research with adolescents. While young people are now recognised as competent and reliable participants, there are particular difficulties associated with using adolescents as respondents. Furthermore, it is rare for young people’s reactions to the research process to be heard. This article reports on some of the methodological challenges faced in designing and administering a Web‐based …
Piggy in the Middle
This paper considers the challenges faced by contract researchers employed on interdisciplinary, cross institutional research projects. It argues that current funding requirements and a general fashion for 'collaborative' research have produced growing numbers of contract researchers employed to carry out other people's research. These contract researchers are caught, like a 'piggy in the middle', between disciplinary boundaries, geographic sites…
Being black in Australia
This article presents a case study in Australia's race relations, focusing on tensions between urban Aborigines and recently resettled African refugees, particularly among young people. Both of these groups are of low socio-economic status and are highly visible in the context of a predominantly white Australia. The relationship between them, it is argued, reflects the history of strained race relations in modern Australia and a growing antipathy…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)