Regional Focus: Australia

Event:

Lecture: Institutional Disrespect: The Structural Marginalisation of Refugee Migrants in Australia, Melbourne, 22 August 2019 [info] 
- See also info re. book on which lecture is based.

Publications:

Five Questions: On Six Years of Australia’s Offshore Processing Policy (Kaldor Centre, July 2019) [text]

Lives on Hold: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the 'Legacy Caseload' (Australian Human Rights Commission, July 2019) [text]

Lowy Institute Poll 2019 [access]
- See the section that focused on "Immigrants and Refugees."

"The Moderating Role of Socially Desirable Responding in Implicit–explicit Attitudes Toward Asylum Seekers," International Journal of Psychology, vol. 54, no. 1 (Feb. 2019) [free full-text] 

Over a Month on in Post-election Australia: No Mercy for Refugees in Indonesia (The Conversation, July 2019) [text]

Paladin Contract Secrecy Highlights Our Broken Refugee System (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]

"Papua New Guinea Demands Australia Remove Refugees," VOA News, 19 July 2019 [text]

Refugee Diaspora Humanitarianism and the Value of North/South Distinctions in Research on Responses to Forced Displacement (Thinking Through the Global South Blog, July 2019) [text]

Rethinking Australia's Refugee Policy (Pursuit, June 2019) [text]

Health-related:

"Complexities of Conducting Research in Adolescent Refugees Resettling in Australia," Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Early View, 22 June 2019 [free full-text]

"The First Medevac Report Shows an 'Unbelievably High' Number of Mental Health Admissions," BuzzFeed News, 12 July 2019 [text]

Medical Treatment in the Best Interests of the Child: Onshore, and Offshore (Sydney Health Law Blog, June 2019) [text]

Peter Dutton is Whipping up Fear on the Medevac Law, But It Defies Logic and Compassion (The Conversation, June 2019) [text]
- More info on the Medevac Law is available in this Kaldor Centre factsheet.

"Self-harm in the Australian Asylum Seeker Population: A National Records-based Study," SSM - Population Health, In Press, 15 July 2019 [open access]

Multimedia:

Launch of the Kaldor Centre's Australian Principles & Priorities for Refugee Policy, Sydney, 13 June 2019 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia (13 June 2019)

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