Regional Focus: Australia & New Zealand

Blog posts & press:

Asylum or Economic Opportunity? The Mixed Messages in Australia’s New Hong Kong Visa Options (The Conversation, July 2020) [text]

"Behrouz Boochani Granted Refugee Status in New Zealand," The Guardian, 23 July 2020 [text]

Claims That Behrouz Boochani Jumped the Queue are a Reminder of the Dangers of Anti-Refugee Politics (The Conversation, Aug. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on New Zealand.

COVID-19 in Melbourne’s High-rise Towers: Rights at Stake? (Kaldor Centre, July 2020) [text]

Editorial: ‘Crimmigration and Australian Border Control’ Border Criminologies Series (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]
- The five posts in this series can be accessed via the "see also" menu on the right.

Internal Border Controls: Australia’s Domestic Policies to Deter Refugees (CONREP Blog, July 2020) [text]

"Policing the Borders," Inside Story, 8 July 2020 [text]

"We Asked How Many Hongkongers Seek Asylum in Australia. This is What We Found," SBS News, 28 July 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"From Cancellation to Removal: The Protection of Migrants of 'Bad Character' in Australia," American University International Law Review, vol. 35, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]

"Out with the Old Approach: A Call to Take Socio-Economic Rights Seriously in Refugee Status Determination," New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, vol. 16 (2018; published May 2020) [abstract]

"Refugee Extractivism: Law and the Mining of a Human Commodity in the Republic of Nauru," Saint Louis University Law Journal, vol. 64, no. 5 (2020) [full-text]

Seven Years On: An Overview of Australia Offshore Processing Policies (Refugee Council of Australia, July 2020) [text]

Submission to the Committee Inquiry into the Australian Government’s Response to the COVID-19
Pandemic and Related Matters (Kaldor Centre, June 2020; posted July 2020) [text]

Submission to the Inquiry into the Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Kaldor Centre, June 2020; posted Aug. 2020) [text]

"Three Decades of Tension: From the Codification of Migration Decision Making to an Overarching Framework for Judicial Review," Federal Law Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia & NZ) - Pt. 1 (30 June 2020)
- Regional Focus: Asia Pacific (incl. Australia & NZ) - Pt. 2 (30 June 2020)