Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- Preface
- PART 1 Students in the global market
- PART 2 Security in the formal and public domain
- 5 Finances
- 6 Work
- 7 Housing
- 8 Health
- 9 Safety of the person
- 10 The immigration department
- PART 3 Security in the informal and private domain
- PART 4 Protection and empowerment
- References
- Index
7 - Housing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- Preface
- PART 1 Students in the global market
- PART 2 Security in the formal and public domain
- 5 Finances
- 6 Work
- 7 Housing
- 8 Health
- 9 Safety of the person
- 10 The immigration department
- PART 3 Security in the informal and private domain
- PART 4 Protection and empowerment
- References
- Index
Summary
It [was] a one bedroom unit. They lived in the living room, I lived in the bedroom. So inconvenient. He was always there. I cannot get out. I just stayed in my room. That's why I moved. I moved to the other place to the house of my classmate's brother, from Beijing. There were so many people, mum and dad, his wife, him and the baby, and other students. One toilet. So I have to line up, not convenient … cooking was always a problem, so many people wanted to cook. I have to line up and wait.
~ female, 33, education, ChinaINTRODUCTION: ‘FALLING WELL SHORT OF OUR DUTY OF CARE’
On 3 January 2008, fire swept through a small house located in busy Ballarat Road in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, walking distance from the core campus of Victoria University where more than 5500 international students were enrolled. Sleeping in a front bedroom of the house were three students from India: Deepak Kumar Prajapati aged 24, Jigneshkumar Ghanshyandas Sadhu, 32 and Sunil Ramanlal Patel, 24. All three perished. ‘We had already heard from callers to 000 [the emergency phone line] that there were people inside and the first crews tried to get in but there was no way they could get to anyone. It was a wall of flame’, said Trevor Woodward, a spokesperson for the fire brigade. ‘We got the front door open and there was a bloke in the middle of the passage way rolling around, but we couldn't help him’, said a neighbour. ‘The flames were on both sides of the wall.’ Three other people escaped unharmed.
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- International Student Security , pp. 145 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010