Regional Focus: Australia

Events:

Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policies: International Law and the Human Rights Commission, London, 11 November 2015 [info]
- See also flyer.

Protection Elsewhere, but Where? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law, Sydney, 20 November 2015 [info]
- Registration is ongoing.

Publications:

Asylum Policy in Australia: Between Resettlement and Deterrence (EPRS, Oct. 2015) [text]

Australia's Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers in Nauru and PNG: A Quick Guide to the Statistics (Parliamentary Library of Australia, Oct. 2015) [text]

Delays in Citizenship Applications for Permanent Refugee Visa Holders (Refugee Council of Australia, Oct. 2015) [text]

History Australia, vol. 12, no. 2 (2015) [delayed open access]
- Includes a "special feature which focuses primarily on the history of one particular group of DPs: people who had been exposed to Soviet rule during the war – either as Soviet citizens, or deportees and refugees from Poland and elsewhere – and who subsequently found their way to Australia in the late 1940s and early 1950s, mainly under the DP mass resettlement scheme administered by the International Refugee Organization (IRO)." The introduction to the special feature can be read immediately, while the remaining articles will become freely available in 24 months.

"Punitive Policies: Australia’s Engagement with Asylum," Refugee Watch Online (Oct. 2015) [text]

Supporting Higher Education Key to Resettling Syrian Refugees (Australian Policy Online, Oct. 2015) [text]

Supporting School-university Pathways for Refugee Students’ Access and Participation in Tertiary Education (Western Sydney University, 2015) [access via BSL Library]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia (8 Oct. 2015)

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