Settling in a new country as a refugee comes with a variety of opportunities and challenges, from forming social connections, to navigating government services, and many others. The challenges can be greater for refugees with disability, our new research shows.
We don’t have concrete data on how many refugees with disability have settled in Australia. But we know numbers have increased in recent years after a 2010 parliamentary inquiry recommended a policy change to reduce barriers to refugees with disability settling in Australia.
