Regional Focus: Australia

Blog posts & press:

Lives in Limbo (The Guardian, Dec. 2020) [access]

- Focuses on Australia’s offshore processing regime.

No fair go for the forgotten ‘legacy caseload’ asylum seekers (Right Now, Dec. 2020) [text]

- See more about the "Temporary" series below.

Pandemics and internal borders: is history repeating itself? (Kaldor Centre, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Describes new research project, "Rethinking medico-legal borders: from international to internal histories."

A Source of Shame: Australia’s Failure to Uphold the Human Rights of Refugees (Right Now, Nov. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

As If We Weren't Humans: The Abandonment of Temporary Migrants in Australia during COVID-19 (Migrant Worker Justice Initiative, Oct. 2020) [text]

"Assessing Refugee Protection Claims at Australian Airports: The Gap between Law, Policy, and Practice," Melbourne University Law Review (advance), vol. 44, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

"Australia the ‘good international citizen’? The limits of a traditional middle power," Australian Journal of International Affairs, Latest Articles, 15 Oct. 2020 [free full-text]

"Counter-Terrorism and the Exclusion of Refugees and Refugee-Citizens from Australia," Chapter 6 in Terrorism and Asylum (Brill, Sept. 2020) [abstract]

- See also related news article.

"Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Refugees in Australia," International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, vol. 9, no. 4 (2020) [open access]

"The Temporary Refuge Initiative: A Close Look at Australia’s Attempt to Reshape International Refugee Law," Sydney Law Review, vol. 42, no. 3 (2020) [full-text]

Multimedia:

"Courts at the frontier: Can strategic litigation in Australia advance refugee protection?," Panel at New Frontiers of Refugee Law in a Closed World, 2020 Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference, 19 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Disembarking to danger: How Australia’s airport asylum policies risk returning refugees to harm, 4 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

"Temporary": A Series about Australia’s "Legacy Caseload" (Kaldor Centre & The Guardian) [access via KC] [access via Guard.]

-  A storytelling project presented in long-form stories, podcasts, art and photography that reveals "the lives of people who came to Australia seeking refuge, and the laws that entangle them in an endless uncertainty."

What happened to the asylum seekers medically evacuated to Australia?, 11 Dec. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for podcast.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Australia (12 Oct. 2020)