Regional Focus: Australia & New Zealand

*Event:

The Aftermath of Christchurch: Voices and Consequences, Washington, DC, 26 March 2019 [info]

Publications:

Australia and the Global Compact on Migration (FlagPost Blog, March 2019) [text]

Australian Historical Studies, vol. 50, no. 1 (2019) [contents]
- This issue focuses on “New Migrant Histories.” The editorial is freely available.

"'How Do We Put Him in the System?': Client Construction at a Sport-Based Migrant Settlement Service in Melbourne, Australia," Social Inclusion, vol. 7, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

How the Next Australian Government Can Balance Security and Compassion for Asylum Seekers (The Conversation, March 2019) [text]

"'I Am a New Zealand Citizen Now—This Is My Home': Refugee Citizenship and Belonging in a Post-colonizing Country," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 6 Nov. 2018 [abstract]

"Let the Asylum Seekers Stay: Strengths and Weaknesses of Church Sanctuary as a Strategy for Law Reform," Monash University Law Review (Forthcoming, 2019?) [preprint]

Factsheet: The Medevac Law: Medical Transfers from Offshore Processing to Australia (Kaldor Centre, March 2019) [text]

News Comment: UNHCR’s Grandi Expresses Shock Following Massacre of Innocent Worshipers in New Zealand (UNHCR, March 2019) [text]

"Predictors of Employment Status: A Study of Former Refugee Communities in Australia," Australian Psychologist, Early View, 21 Feb. 2019 [postprint]
- Note: Access to this item is embargoed until 24 April 2021.

"Refugee-focused Service Providers: Improving the Welcome in New Zealand," Service Industries Journal, Latest Articles, 7 May 2018 [ResearchGate]

The Right to Leave and Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policies (Asylum Insight, Feb. 2019) [text]

"The Ring of Steel: Extraterritorial Migration Controls in Indonesia and Libya and the Complicity of Australia and Italy," Human Rights Law Review (Forthcoming, 2019) [preprint]

Statistics (Refugee Council of Australia, 2019) [access]
- Provides recent statistics on asylum seekers, offshore processing, fast tracking and detention.

Statistics: Refugees (New Zealand Immigration, 2019) [access]
- Scroll down to locate current statistical data for refugees.

"Temporal Enactment of Resettled Refugees' ICT‐mediated Information Practices," Information Systems Journal, vol. 29, no. 1 (Jan. 2019) [free full-text]
- Focuses on refugees in New Zealand.

The Two Tragedies That Struck Christchurch: A Reflection by UNHCR’s Richard Towle (Medium, March 2019) [text]

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Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Australia (14 Feb. 2019)
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (9 Feb. 2019)

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