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November 30, 2022

‘You have to beg for help’: how our welfare system pressures people to perform vulnerability

Emma Mitchell, Western Sydney University

As a woman living on the disability support pension put it: ‘You don’t have the flexibility that a rich person has to respond to crisis, so you have to beg for help. And you know you’ll be judged’.

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August 12, 2020

‘No one would even know if I had died in my room’: coronavirus leaves international students in dire straits

Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney; Catherine Hastings, University of Technology Sydney; Emma Mitchell, University of Technology Sydney; Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney, and Shaun Wilson, Macquarie University

Of the students with jobs, 60% lost them and and two-thirds of the rest had hours cut. As they struggled, and often failed, to get rents and tuition fees reduced, precarious lives became even harder.

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April 6, 2020

Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing

Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney; Emma Mitchell, University of Technology Sydney, and Gaby Ramia, University of Sydney

Even before COVID-19, 22% of international students often went without food or necessities and almost half depended on paid work to cover the rent. With many of their jobs gone, they’re now desperate.

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