Dr. Michelle Jasmin Dimasi

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Michelle Jasmin Dimasi

Dr. Michelle Jasmin Dimasi is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research. She has worked extensively with asylum seekers and refugees, including unaccompanied minors. She recently visited Serbia where she interviewed asylum seeker children about their plights. Dimasi has regularly visited Afghanistan with an interest in the rights of children and women. She currently lives in the Middle East and works in the social services sector.

William Maley

Professor William Maley is Professor of Diplomacy at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, author of Rescuing Afghanistan (2006) and The Afghanistan Wars (2009), and co-editor of Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective (2015) and Theorising the Responsibility to Protect (2015). He has degrees in Economics, Law, Political Science, and Politics, and has been teaching since 1984. He has published widely on Afghanistan, on refugee policy and on contemporary diplomacy.

The Refugee Crisis and Afghan Asylum-Seekers in Europe: Testimony of Youth

Posted by Michelle Jasmin Dimasi | Nov 20, 2015 | Asia Pacific, Europe, News & Analysis |

In the worst refugee crisis since World War II, Afghans—including unaccompanied children—comprise the second-largest group of asylum-seekers after Syrians.