Regional Focus: Australia

Upcoming event:

SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference, Sydney, 22 February 2013 [info]
- Includes a session on "Developments in Human Rights and Refugee Law in 2012."

Publications:

Activists Rap Australia's Offshore Processing of Migrants (IRIN, Jan. 2013) [text]
 
"Collateral Damage: The Impact of Australian Asylum Seeker Policy on Christmas Islanders (2001-2011)," Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, vol. 6, no. 2 (2012) [open access text]

Experiences of Parenting among Burmese Refugee Mothers in a Facilitated Playgroup (Edith Cowan University, Oct. 2012) [text]
- Looks at the experiences of refugee families in Australia.

"Dark Justice: Australia's Indefinite Detention of Refugees on Security Grounds under International Human Rights Law," Melbourne Journal of International Law, vol. 13, no. 2 (Forthcoming, Nov. 2012; posted Jan. 2013) [text via SSRN]

"'Fair Shake of the Sauce Bottle': Reform Options for Making ASIO Security Assessments of Refugees Fairer," Alternative Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 4 (2012) [preprint via SSRN]

Insider Resistance: Understanding Refugee Protest against Immigration Detention in Australia 1999-2005 (Centre for Human Rights Education, Nov. 2012) [text]
- Includes link to thesis.

Released but not yet Free: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Community after Long-term Detention (Centre for Human Rights Education, Dec. 2012) [text via BroCAP]

"UNHCR Takes Aim at Australia over Nauru Detainees ," Town & Country Magazine, 14 Dec. 2012 [text]

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