25 September 2019

Regional Focus: Australia

Opportunity:

Call for applications: PhD Scholarship: In Partnership with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Univ. of Melbourne [info]
- Deadline is 27 September 2019.

Blog posts & media:

"Almost 99 Per Cent of Protection Visa Review Applications Fail When Heard by Controversial Judge, New Figures Reveal," ABC News, 6 Sept. 2019 [text]

"Australia's Harsh Immigration Policy," The Diplomat, 3 Sept. 2019 [text]

Australia’s Visa Regime and the Right to Leave Any Country: Fostering Irregular Migration and Harm (Dhaka Law Review Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

CONREP Blog [access]
- The CONREP project "researches the impact and effects of the externalisation of refugee policies in two regions: Australia's activities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific; and the European Union and its member states' activities in North Africa." Follow the a/m link to browse a number of recent blog posts that focus on current refugee-related developments in Australia.

"Essential Poll: Majority of Australians Support Medevac or Better Asylum Care," The Guardian, 16 Sept. 2019 [text]

How the Biloela Tamil Family Deportation Case Highlights the Failures of Our Refugee System (The Conversation, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Lifetime Refugee Ban is Harsh and Discriminatory, says Senate Submission," UNSW Newsroom, 22 Aug. 2019 [text]

The Regions Can Take More Migrants and Refugees, with a Little Help (The Conversation, Aug. 2019) [text]

'We all slept in the car, five of us': Young Refugees Talk about Being Homeless in Australia (The Conversation, Aug. 2019) [text]

Why Medevac System Should Stay: Kaldor Centre Recommends Strongly Against Repeal (Kaldor Centre, Aug. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Australian Media and Islamophobia: Representations of Asylum Seeker Children," Religions, vol. 10, no. 9 (Aug. 2019) [open access]

The Effects of Discrimination on Refugee and Migrant Housing Needs (Settlement Council of Australia, Aug. 2019) [text]

"Experiences of Vulnerability and Sources of Resilience among Immigrants and Refugees," Australasian Review of African Studies, vol. 40, no. 1 (June 2019) [full-text]

"On Beginning with Justice: Bioethics, Advocacy and the Rights of Asylum Seekers," Bioethics, vol. 33, no. 8 (Oct. 2019) [free full-text]

"Research Access and Adaptation in the Securitised Field of Australian Refugee and Asylum Law," Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

"The Slow Road to a New Home: The Experiences of the First Generation of South Sudanese Western Australians Settled in Perth," Australasian Review of African Studies, vol. 40, no. 1 (June 2019) [full-text]

Stronger Together: The Impact of Family Separation on Refugees and Humanitarian Migrants in Australia (Oxfam, Aug. 2019) [text]
- See also related DevPolicy Blog post.

Related post:
Regional Focus: Australia (9 Aug. 2019)

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