Regional Focus: Australia

Event:

"Australia’s Refugee Policy: There IS an Alternative," Refugee Action Committee Annual General Meeting, Canberra, 20 January 2015 [info]

Publications:

Australia's Humanitarian Program: A Quick Guide to the Statistics since 1947 (Parliamentary Library of Australia, Jan. 2015) [text]

Developments in Refugee Law and Policy: 2014 in Review (FlagPost Blog, Jan. 2015) [text]

In the Name of National Interest? Assessing the Shift of Australian Foreign Policy regarding West Papua during 2006, Bachelor's thesis (Edith Cowan University, Nov. 2014) [text]

"Is There Any Blood on My Hands? Deportation as a Crime of International Law," Emory International Law Review (Forthcoming, 2015) [eprint via SSRN]
- From abstract: "The article concludes that there are reasonable grounds for asserting that a crime against humanity would have been committed in the Dominican Republic and Australia with regard to their deportation policy."

Public Forum: Asylum Seekers and Protection at Sea, Melbourne, 24 Nov. 2014 [summary]

"Seeking Asylum in Australia: Does the Policy of Offshore Processing Asylum Seekers Fail Australia’s Responsibility to Uphold International Law?," Publicus Consilium: Deakin Public Policy Review, vol. 3 (2014) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 14.

"Young African Female Refugees’ Sense of Acculturation and Community Connection in Western Australia," Australian Community Psychologist, vol. 26, no. 2 (Dec. 2014) [full-text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Oceania (19 Dec. 2014)

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