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1 Notes on Contributors Sarjoh Bah was born in Sierra Leone, studied at the El Azhar University in Egypt, and migrated to Australia in His commitment to social justice and human rights led him to work with refugees and vulnerable communities. Bah holds a degree in education, a master s in social science from the University of Western Sydney, and an MSW from the Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. He received a Business Excellence Award from the Australian government for his work in empowering refugees. Prahlad Dahal holds a bachelor s degree in commerce (University of Delhi), an MA in sociology from Kamaraj University, Madurai, and an MSW from James Cook University, Queensland. Prior to leaving Bhutan he worked as a rural credit account officer in the Government of Bhutan. As a refugee in Nepal, he worked as a logistic and stores officer at CARITAS (Bhutanese Refugee Education Program) before he was finally resettled in Cairns in March In 2012, he received the TropEco Award from James Cook University, for developing sustainable partnerships and engagement between the university and the local community. More recently, he received the Cairns Regional Council Cultural Diversity Award, in the Outstanding Volunteer/Individual category (2014). Asmita Dhital is a graduate in social work from St Xavier s College (Kathmandu University). She is a program coordinator in SAATH, a social work organization, and also hosts a radio program on social issues, policies, and social change in contemporary Nepal. She has received a semester scholarship to travel

2 180 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS around the world with Up with People a global education and arts organization whose goal is to bridge cultural barriers and create global understanding through service and music. Om Dhungel, GAICD, MBA, BSc (Engineering), is the CEO of SEVA International, a nonprofit organization focused on the South Asian community in Sydney. He is also currently the chairperson of Sydney West Multicultural Services and a board member of Settlement Services International. A recipient of Australia s 2012 National Volunteer Award, he is the president of the Association of Bhutanese in Australia, Sydney, and the community ambassador for MTC Australia. Dhungel approaches community development from an asset-based model and has initiated work in this direction with many newly emerging communities in Australia. Narayan Gopalkrishnan, PhD, is lecturer and course coordinator, social work and human services, James Cook University. He is an internationally recognized academic and practitioner with extensive experience in Australia and overseas, having worked in universities, NGOs, and the private sector over the last thirty years. Gopalkrishnan was the founding director of the Centre for Multicultural and Community Development, an academic research center of the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, which focused on research and development relating to multiculturalism and community development. His teaching and research interests relate to community development, community and ecological sustainability, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, social determinants of health and well-being, and integrated medicine and complementary therapies, and he has published widely in these areas. Venkat Pulla, PhD, is an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and a Dorabji Tata Scholar, He was the head of the social work faculty in the Northern Territory University ( ) (now known as the Charles Darwin University) and currently he is the coordinator of the social

3 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 181 work faculty at the Australian Catholic University, Brisbane (McAuley Campus at Banyo). He has previously taught at the Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, and at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Pulla began his career teaching community development and organizational behavior at the College of Social Work, Hyderabad, and spent a few years training senior executives of the public sector in urban development through the British DFID-funded projects for metro cities in India through the Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES), Osmania University. He founded the Centre for Environment Concerns in Hyderabad as a reflective sequel to the Bhopal tragedy and initiated the first-ever written Citizen s Report on the City of Hyderabad and its Physical Environment. In Australia he has founded the Brisbane Institute of Strengths-Based Practice and Impetus Global, Brisbane, that offer solution-focused training in the broad realm of strengths-based strategies for human services and the corporate sector. He is a practitioner and a motivational speaker on the strengths-based approach in social work and self-reliance. His most recent writings in journals and books are on green social work, spirituality, coping and resilience, and building hope. His research interests include poverty interventions, health rights, and transition countries. Devika Rai is a graduate in public health from Nobel College, Pokhara University, Nepal. She previously worked as a research associate with the principal author of this book, Venkat Pulla. She is currently project coordinator at YUWA, a not-for-profit youth organization in Nepal. In 2013 she presented a paper on Resettlement Perspectives of Bhutanese Refugees at a colloquium organized by YUWA-CYS (Centre for Youth Studies), based on responses from the Beldangi refugee camps in Damak, Nepal. Jennifer Woods is a doctoral scholar at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. She began her bachelor of social work degree

4 182 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS at Charles Sturt University in 2009, followed by an honors project under the supervision of Venkat Pulla, in the course of which she studied spirituality as a means of coping and resilience among the Lhotsampa refugees from Bhutan, specifically a group of those settled in Albury, New South Wales. Jennifer also worked as a research associate with Pulla, while she was on placement with the Multicultural Council in Wagga, New South Wales, working with Burmese and Afghan refugees there. Since then she has done further work with the council as a case worker in Griffith, working predominantly with Afghan refugees. She is the secretary of the North Wagga Residents Association and as such has been involved in the rebuilding of the community after the floods in North Wagga in March She has been amazed at the community s resilience and determination to continue living in one of Wagga s oldest suburbs; this is the focus of her PhD dissertation.

5 Index ableism, 132 Adult Migrant English Program, 148 ageism, 132 Asian Medical Doctors Association, 34 Asmita Dhital, xvii, 47 59, 179 Bhutanese kingdom, 47 Bhutanese police, 8 Bhutanese Refugee Education Program, 34, 179 Bhutanese Refugee Women Forum, 35 Buddhism, 2 3, 6, 76 Camp Management Committee, 34 Census, 5 7, 16 17, 55 56, 124 Citizenship Act, 4 5, 7, 14 15, 17, 20, 48, Coping, 12, 13, 36, 39, 66, 68, 70, , 153, 159, , 173, 175, 181, 182 Cultural Competence, , 110, 115, 121, 123, , 160 Devika Rai, xiii, xvii, 79 92, 181 Driglam Namzha, 7, 15, 20 Drukpa, xii, 2, 5 7, 9, 14 15, 53 54, 87, 91, 166 Ethnic diversity, 2, 53, 125, 140 Ethnoscapes, Gorkha/Gorkhaland, 4, 13 Gross National Happiness, 11, 15, 166 homophobia, 132 hope/hopeful/hopelessness, 11 13, 27, 37, 39, 58, 67, 73, 79, 81, 83, 85 86, 88 92, 96, 98, 105, 165 Human Rights, 11 12, 14, 16, 17 19, 21, 23, 47 49, 51, 53 59, 81, 89, 95 96, 108, 132, 163, 179 Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy, 148 international community, 11, 14, 25, 81, 89 International Organization for Migration, 123 interpreter, 65 67, 97, 173 Interview Participants, 100 interviews, 17, 40, 43, 61, 82 83, 97, 99, 112 Intolerance, 166 Islamophobia, 132 Jennifer Woods, xiii, xvii, , 162, 181 JMLC, 79 80

6 184 INDEX Language barrier, 64, 66, 71 Lutheran World Federation, 34 marginalization, 166 mental health, 42, 106, 109, 160, 167, 172 migrants/immigrants, 2 3, 5, 7 8, 14, 75, , , 134, 136, 150, 158, 171 Millennium Development Goals, 123 monarch/monarchy, 2, 4, 13, 54, 166 multiculturalism, , 180, 319 Narayan Gopalkrishnan, xvii, , 180 Nepalese origin, 10, 23 No Objection Certificate, 7 non-bhutanese, 7, 20 21, 24, 26, 28, 80 Om Dhungel, xiv, xvii, , 180 petition, 7, 11, 17, 47, Prahlad Dahal, 13 29, 31 45, 179 Psychological Trauma, 39 40, 42 Psychosocial, 14, 38, 110, 146, , 162 racism, 125, 129, , 136 Refugee Camps, 10 11, 18, 31 45, 52, 67, 83 84, 87, 97, 106, 136, 167, 170, 181 Resettlement/Resettlement policies, 10 11, 36, 41, 44, 61 62, 65, 68 70, 72, 75, 79 93, 98, 102, , 111, 114, 136, , 168, 170, 172, 181 Resilience, 68 69, 76, 77, 92, , 125, 153, 159, , 182 rights of the citizens, 57 royal family, 13 SAARC, 24, 47 48, 52 53, 55, 58 59, 79 Sanskrit, 37 Sarjoh Bah, xvii, 61 78, 179 Second Generation, secondary migration, 146, 150, , 161 Security Forces, 21 22, 48, separation from families, 136 Settlement Grants Program, 148 Settlement Planning, Spirituality, 13, 41, 43, 68, 76, 78, , 153, 165, , , Strengths-Based, 39, 181 UNDESA, 123, 142 UNHCR, 10, 12, 24, 25 26, 33, 35, 39, 64, 78 79, 81 82, 89, 93, 104, 124, 142, 145, 147, 149, 154, 163, 169 Venkat Pulla, 1 12, 13 29, 31 45, 47 59, 61 78, 79 93, , , , voluntary migration forms, 8 10, 19 volunteer officers, 34 Women and Girls as Primary Targets, 50