Michelle Bui is a research assistant in the faculty of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University. She is currently involved in a project called Deathscapes which seeks new ways to document, understand, and respond to contemporary racialised violence (against Indigenous people and racialised migrants and refugees at the border) in the settler states of Australia, Canada and the United States.
Her research work follows a longstanding involvement with the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) WA. Her engagement in political activism has allowed her to work closely with people seeking asylum both in detention and in the community, she regularly visits people detained at the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre and maintains contact with several of Australia’s political prisoners, incarcerated on Manus Island and Nauru.
