Melissa Phillips

Melissa Phillips' PhD was part of an Australian Research Council Linkage Project on Resettling Visible Migrants and Refugees in Rural and Regional Australia at the University of Melbourne where she was also a member of a Social Justice Initiative on Temporary Migrant Workers.

Melissa has over 10 years experience working with refugees and asylum-seekers in Australia, Britain and South Sudan for the United Nations, NGOs and the Red Cross. She is currently working with refugees in Libya.

The issue of how best to deal with asylum seekers seeking to reach Australia by boat is one of the most controversial. 
Melissa Phillips