Research
A Bad Migrant: An Autoethnographic Case Study of Racism in Australian HIV Care
Racism is a neglected determinant of HIV, particularly when it comes to migrant communities. I wrote this paper to argue why we should pay attention to race; in addition, I further advance the discussion of racism beyond racial discrimination, meaning to look at it within the intersections of migration-health systems nexus and reveal how labour exploitation, cultural domination and dehumanisation occurs through the provision of health care, including HIV care.
18th December 2024
Understanding Key Priority Areas of Mental Health Among Queer Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Australia through the Lens of Structural Violence: A Modified Delphi Method Study
Participatory research is key to generating evidence that can be translated into policy and practice. But how do we conduct evidence synthesis in a participatory manner? In this paper, we offer an approach: a refugee-led research, using scoping review and Delphi consensus method, to identify what refugee services in Australia need to prioritise to address mental health challenges among Queer asylum seekers and refugees.
Journal of Refugee Studies
13th August 2024
Why Do You Make It About Race? Epistemic Disobedience of a Public Health Doctoral Trainee
Are you doing a PhD in public health and work with adversely racialised communities? You may be wondering how you can balance between Western standards of what research is and how the communities that you work with (which may be your own community) generate knowledge about themselves. I share my reflections on how I engaged with the notion of disobedience in my PhD project with gay migrants from Southeast and Northeast Asia in Queensland, Australia.
30th January 2024
Developing Critical HIV Health Literacy: Insights from Interviews with Priority Migrant Communities in Queensland, Australia
The bulk of health literacy research with migrant and ethnic minoritised communities focus too much on the deficit—i.e., the gap in their health knowledge from a biomedical or clinical perspective. Taking a broader understanding of literacy as a social practice, this paper highlights critical knowledge and strategies they use to develop HIV health literacy within their communities and with health professionals
10th November 2024
(Not That) Essential: A Scoping Review of Migrant Workers’ Access to Health Services and Social Protection during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
3rd March 2022
Public health knowledge generated from "COVID-10" to "COVID-19" evidence synthesis is often ahistorical. As a result, it is not always clear how inequities in the past are reproduced or have evolved. In this scoping review, we contextualise the findings on migrant workers’ access to health services and social protection during COVID-10 through the lens of immigration histories of three countries: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
