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Dr

Jordana Silverstein

Senior Research Fellow, Statelessness
Law
Violence
Trauma
social sciences
history
arts & humanities
guardianship
child refugees
memory studies
government & law
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Dr

Jordana Silverstein

 
Division
Law
 
Primary Interest
Histories of Migration
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Scholarly Works

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By Students for Students: A History of the Melbourne University Union

Jordana Silverstein

Journal article  |  2023  |  Journal of Australian Studies

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Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

Jordana Silverstein

Journal article  |  2022  |  The Conversation

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This Jewish woman’s story of surviving the Holocaust by passing as Catholic and sheltering with Nazis is (rightly) hard to read

Jordana Silverstein

Journal article  |  2022  |  The Conversation

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Testifying to History

Jordana Silverstein

Book Chapter  |  2022

In this book Boochani's collected writings are combined with essays from experts on migration, refugee rights, politics, and liter..

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Policy Paper: Healthcare and the Health-Related Harms of Australia’s Refugee Externalisation Policies

Jordana Silverstein, Sara Dehm, Claire Loughnan, Samantha O’Donnell

Report  |  2022

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Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia

Jordana Silverstein

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

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The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt

Jordana Silverstein

Journal article  |  2022  |  GENDER AND HISTORY

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Solidarity and Justice

Jordana Silverstein

Journal article  |  2022  |  Lilith: a feminist history journal

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“Best Interests of the Child”, Australian Refugee Policy, and the (Im)possibilities of International Solidarity

J Silverstein

Journal article  |  2021  |  Human Rights Review

“Best interests of the child” is a key concept in international law, developed by and through institutions which maintain a stake ..

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Remembering and forgetting the war

Jordana Silverstein

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter explores the ways in which the Second World War has been remembered in a selection of countries. Looking at countries..

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Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Expanding Knowledge
Understanding Past Societies
Religious Studies
International and Comparative Law
Government and Politics
Political Science
Cultural Studies
Gender Studies
Ethics

News

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Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

Jordana Silverstein

This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani. Two of my grandparents were Jewish Holoca..

December 7, 2022
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This Jewish woman's story of surviving the Holocaust by passing as Catholic and sheltering with Nazis is (rightly) hard to read

Jordana Silverstein

Hiding in Plain Sight tells the Holocaust story (and post-Holocaust life) of Mala Rywka Kizel – or Marilka Shlafer, as she became known lat..

November 24, 2022
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What we know about sport after 2021

Jack Anderson, Karen Farqhuarson, Jordana Silverstein

When COVID-19 stopped the world as we knew it, sport became a very obvious signpost that everything had changed. Sport was played in mostly..

December 29, 2021
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How Golda Meir, Israel's 'Iron Lady', helped establish an independent Jewish state

Jordana Silverstein

This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz ..

July 16, 2021
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Academics call for an end to immigration detention

Philomena Murray, Claire Loughnan, Jordana Silverstein, Louise Newman AM, John Tobin

Australia’s policy of detaining refuges and asylum seekers in offshore facilities is tarnishing our reputation internationally and, more wo..

October 16, 2018
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Sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination 'rife' among Australian academics

Laura Rademaker, Alana Piper, Andy Kaladelfos, Jordana Silverstein, Katherine Ellinghaus, Mary Tomsic, Naomi Wolfe, Nikki Henningham, Yves Rees

Sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination pervade parts of Australian universities, according to survey results released today by the Aus..

July 1, 2018
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Footy, history and a changing Australia

Jordana Silverstein, Mary Tomsic

Footy holds a central place in the cultural life of many Australians today. Over the last one hundred years or so, Australian Rules has bec..

May 1, 2018
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Credentials

Positions

Senior Research Fellow, Statelessness

Law

Member, Aha

Australian Historical Association

Member, Awgsa

Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association

Member, Awhn

Australian Women's History Network

Education

PhD

The University of Melbourne

PhD

University of Melbourne

BA (Hons)

University of Melbourne

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