Understanding the refugee experience and improving resettlement outcomes: a chat with Mandy Hughes

How can Sociology help us understand the human condition and the trauma of the refugee experience? Lauren chats to Dr Mandy Hughes, lecturer in Sociology at Southern Cross about her extensive work with refugee communities, the importance of food in making people feel at home and how a media background working with the ABC and SBS has informed her research and led to making a film as part of her PhD.