Regional Focus: Australia

Event:

Conference: From Refugee Emergency to Protracted Exile: The Role of 'Time' in International Protection, Kaldor Centre Annual Conference, Sydney, 18 November 2016 [info]
- Deadline for early bird registration is 7 October 2016.

Publications:

At What Cost? The Human, Economic and Strategic Cost of Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policies and the Alternatives (Save the Children & Unicef, Sept. 2016) [text]

Australia’s Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers in Nauru and PNG: A Quick Guide to Statistics and Resources (Parliamentary Library of Australia, updated June 2016) [text]

"Creating Criminals: Australia's Response to Asylum Seekers and Refugees," Chapter 16 in The Immigrant Other: Lived Experiences in a Transnational World (Columbia University Press, March 2016) [preprint via Academia.edu]

"Escaping Accountability: A Case of Australia's Asylum Seeker Policy," Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 29, no. 6 (2016) [full-text via SSRN]

Offshore Processing Centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea: Procurement of Garrison Support and Welfare Services (Australian National Audit Office, Sept. 2016) [text via APO]

Pathways to Protection: A Human Rights-based Response to the Flight of Asylum Seekers by Sea (Australian Human Rights Commission, Sept. 2016) [text]

Refugee Resettlement to Australia: What are the Facts? (Parliamentary Library of Australia, updated Sept. 2016) [text]

Web site:

Refugee Research Blog (Researchers for Asylum Seekers) [access]
- "[P]rovides a platform for academic and non-academic research and comment on issues surrounding people seeking asylum and refugees."


Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia (8 Sept. 2016)

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