Seeking asylum, finding resilience: Alfred Mupenzi on what his PhD taught him – video

Alfred Mupenzi's journey from asylum seeker to PhD makes him uniquely qualified to discuss the challenges facing refugees as they attempt to start new lives in Australia. He has spent the past four years studying the resilience of refugee students in higher education. Mupenzi grew up in refugee camps in Uganda and lost both his parents before turning 12. He is seeking asylum in Australia after facing persecution by the Rwandan government. Mupenzi argues against blind sympathy for newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers, but rather to empathise and engage with them as human beings who have much to contribute to Australian society

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