John van Kooy is a PhD Candidate in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. His research focuses on the neighbourhood conditions of settlement and social inclusion for refugees in Australia. He has published numerous reports and articles on settlement and employment issues for humanitarian migrants and people seeking asylum in Australia. He has worked as a Research and Policy Lead at AMES Australia, a Research Fellow in the Research and Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, and has been an Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute since 2017.
Experience
2021–present
Senior Technical Advisor, Research and Evaluation, ARC Justice
2019–2021
Research and Policy Lead, AMES Australia
2018–2019
Research Associate, Monash University
2014–2017
Research Fellow, Brotherhood of St Laurence
2007–2013
Knowledge Management Lead, World Vision International
Education
2007
Australian National University, Master of Arts (International Relations)
2005
La Trobe University, Bachelor of International Relations
Publications
2021
'Boat People' and Discursive Bordering: Australian Parliamentary Discourses on Asylum Seekers, 1977-2013, Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
2020
‘Now I'm just like anyone else in the community’: Work, welfare, and community expectations of refugees in Australia, Journal of Refugee Studies
2019
‘Surrounded with so much uncertainty’: asylum seekers and manufactured precarity in Australia, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies