14 March 2021

Regional Focus: Australia

Blog posts & press:

A COVID ‘vaccine passport’ may further disadvantage refugees and asylum seekers (The Conversation, Feb. 2021) [text]

How should Australia respond to asylum seekers arriving by sea during the COVID-19 pandemic? (Kaldor Centre, Feb. 2021) [text]

It’s time to give visas to the Biloela Tamil family and other asylum seekers stuck in the system (The Conversation, Feb. 2021) [text]

Prosecution of Refugee Rally Organiser for Incitement Could a Have Chilling Effect (Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

New open access book:

Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance
(ANU Press, Feb. 2021) [open access]
- This book "presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives. Mostly covering the period from 1970 to the present, the chapters provide readers with an understanding of the political, social and historical contexts that have brought us to the current day. This engaging collection of essays also considers possible ways to break existing policy deadlocks, encouraging readers to imagine a future where we carry vastly different ideas about refugees, government policies and national identities."

Reports & journal articles:

"Alcohol, Other Drugs Use and Mental Health among African Migrant Youths in South Australia," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 4 (Feb. 2021) [open access]
- See also related news release.

*COVID-19 impacts us all: Ensuring the safety and well-being of people on temporary visas during COVID-19 (Australian Red Cross, Oct. 2020) [text]

"Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 3 (March 2021) [open access]

"No One Smiles at Me: The Double Displacement of Iranian Migrant Men as Refugees Who Use Drugs in Australia," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 3 (March 2021) [open access]

"Profiles of exposure to potentially traumatic events in refugees living in Australia," Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, vol. 30 (2021) [open access]

"The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development?," Frontiers in Sociology, 11 Feb. 2021 [open access]

Should Asylum Seekers Modify Their Conduct to Avoid Harm under Complementary Protection?, Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series (SSRN, Jan. 2021) [text]

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