This submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission is drawn from mainly qualitative findings of nine studies carried out by the La Trobe Refugee Research Centre (LaRRC) at La Trobe University, between 2004 and 2009, into the wellbeing and resettlement experiences of people with refugee backgrounds settled in Victoria and Queensland. A specific focus of this submission is the in-depth experiences of those who have participated in these studies. As such, the ???data??? contained here is largely descriptive aiming to let the participants ???speak for themselves??? as far as is possible. The submission presents evidence of African Australians??? experiences of social exclusion and discrimination in five domains of social life: employment, education, health, justice and social participation. -Description from source
