Regional Focus: Oceania

Event:

Lecture: The Movement of Peoples and Asylum Seekers in the Asia Pacific: A Human Rights Approach, Wellington, 23 August 2018 [info]

Publications:

"1600 Asylum Claims Could be Reopened Due to Poorly Drafted Regulation," The Guardian, 21 July 2018 [text]

"Australia Succeeds in Stopping Migrants but Many in Limbo," U.S. News & World Report, 18 July 2018 [text]

"Australians Protest Five Years of Offshore Detention Policy," New York Times, 21 July 2018 [text]

Boat ‘Turnbacks’ in Australia: A Quick Guide to the Statistics since 2001 (Parliamentary Library of Australia, updated July 2018) [text via APO]

"Embodying ‘Accidental Ethnography’: Staying Overnight with Former Bhutanese Refugees in Aotearoa New Zealand," Social & Cultural Geography, Latest Articles, 1 June 2018 [ResearchGate]

"Fact Check: Could Asylum Seekers Travelling from New Zealand Obtain a Visa on Arrival in Australia?," ABC News, 22 July 2018 [text]

Global Refugee Summit Breaks New Ground in International Advocacy: Report on Australian Advocacy in Geneva, June 2018 (Refugee Council of Australia, Aug. 2018) [text]

How Imagery and Media Coverage Influence Our Empathy for Strangers (The Conversation, July 2018) [text]

"Inclusionary Policy and Marginalised Groups in Aoteaora/New Zealand Process, Impacts and Politics," Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Latest Articles, 21 June 2018 [open access]

Recent Changes to Australian Refugee Policy (Refugee Council of Australia, July 2018) [text]

Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers are Being Deported from Australia Despite Fears of Torture (The Conversation, Aug. 2018) [text]

Taiwan and Australia’s Refugee Treatment Deal (The Interpreter Blog, July 2018) [text]

Unregulated Population Migration and Other Future Drivers of Instability in the Pacific (Lowy Institute, July 2018) [text]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia (6 July 2018)

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