Regional Focus: Australia

Event:

Expert panel: Refugees: Prospects & Potential – Insights from Personal, Research and Program Experience, Melbourne, 20 June 2019 [info]
- RSVP required; email questions for panel members by 17 June 2019.

Blog posts & commentary:

Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policy History: A Story of Blunders and Shame (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

Cruel, and No Deterrent: Why Australia's Policy on Asylum Seekers Must Change (The Conversation, May 2019) [text]

‘Humanitarian Borderwork’: Tensions Between Humanitarianism and Securitization for NGOs Working with Asylum Seekers in Australia (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2019) [text]

Protection or Punishment for Refugees: What are the Election Policies? (Pursuit, May 2019) [text]

Resisting the ‘Structurally Embedded Border’ in Australia (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Being a Father in My New Society: A Qualitative Study of the Fathering Experiences of Men from Refugee Backgrounds Resettled in Australia," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 32, no. 2 (June 2019) [postprint]

Immigration, Population Growth and Voters: Who Cares, and Why? - The October/November 2018 TAPRI Survey (Australian Population Research Institute, April 2019) [text via APO]

Kaldor Centre Principles for Australian Refugee Policy (June 2019) [access]
- Follow link for key priorities and full report. See also related SBS news article.

"Outsourcing, Responsibility and Refugee Claim-Making in Australia’s Offshore Detention Regime," Chapter in Profit and Protest in the Asylum Industry (PM Press, Forthcoming 2019) [preprint]

"Status-making: Rethinking Migrant Categorization," Journal of Sociology, vol. 55, no. 2 (2019) [abstract]

"Temporary Migrants as an Uneasy Presence in Immigrant Societies: Reflections on Ambivalence in Australia," International Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 60, nos. 1-2 (2019) [Monash Univ.]

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia (9 May 2019)

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