Regional Focus: Australia

Blog posts & press:

Asylum Applications from China and Malaysia (Pearls & Irritations Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Australia’s Other “Offshore Policy”: Containing Refugees in Indonesia through the International Organisation for Migration (CONREP Blog, Nov. 2019) [text]

Behrouz Boochani: Still in Limbo (The Interpreter Blog, Nov. 2019) [text]
- See also related AP news story.

Explainer: The Medevac Repeal and What It Means for Asylum Seekers on Manus Island and Nauru (The Conversation, Dec. 2019) [text]
- See also related statements from the Kaldor Centre and UNHCR.

The Immigration Assessment Authority and the Erosion of Fairness in Australia’s Refugee Framework (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Global Compact on Refugees: Opportunities for Australian Reform and Leadership?
Australian Quarterly Magazine, vol. 90, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2019) [full-text via Kaldor Centre]

Good Decisions: Achieving Fairness in Refugee Law, Policy and Practice, Kaldor Centre Annual Conference 2019, Sydney, 26 Nov. 2019 [info]
- Follow link for podcasts of speakers and conference report.

"Migration Practitioners’ Roles in Communicating Credible Refugee Claims," Alternative Law Journal, OnlineFirst, 9 Nov. 2019 [postprint]

"Predictors of Professional Help-seeking for Emotional Problems in Afghan and Iraqi Refugees in Australia: Findings from the Building a New Life in Australia Database," BMC Public Health, 19:1485 (Nov. 2019) [open access]

"Reconceptualising the Governance of Migration Policy in Australia: From Centralised to Cooperative Approaches," Croatian and Comparative Public Administration: A Journal for Theory and Practice of Public Administration, vol. 19, no. 3 (2019) [full-text]

"The Ring of Steel: Extraterritorial Migration Controls in Indonesia and Libya and the Complicity of Australia and Italy," Human Rights Law Review, Advance Articles, 15 Nov. 2019 [postprint]

Safe Journeys and Sound Policy: Expanding Protected Entry for Refugees, Policy Brief, no. 8 (Kaldor Centre, Nov. 2019) [text]
- See also related podcast interview with author.

Related post:
- Regional Focus: Australia & New Zealand (9 Nov. 2019)

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