30 April 2021

Regional Focus: Australia

Blog posts & press:

"As UK considers offshore asylum plan, why Australia's system was a dangerous failure," The Guardian, 22 March 2021 [text]

Asylum policy in UK and Australia: A tale of two nations (Pearls & Irritations, April 2021) [text]

"Australian government willing to repatriate Iraqi refugee knowing he would ‘likely be killed’," The Guardian, 27 March 2021 [text]

Nauru: riches to rags to riches (Devpolicy Blog, April 2021) [text]
- Discusses economic impact of Australia's Regional Processing Centre in Nauru.

Scores of medevac refugees have been released from detention. Their freedom, though, remains tenuous (The Conversation, March 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"African migrants and stress coping strategies in Australia: Implications for social work," International Social Work, OnlineFirst, 7 April 2021 [open access]

"Attack by Design: Australia’s Offshore Detention System and the Literature of Atrocity," European Journal of International Law (Forthcoming, 2021) [preprint]

"'Boat People' and Discursive Bordering: Australian Parliamentary Discourses on Asylum Seekers, 1977-2013," Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, vol. 37, no. 1 (2021) [open access

"God-Like Powers: The Character Test and Unfettered Ministerial Discretion," Adelaide Law Review, vol. 40, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

"Provider Perspectives on Services for People Seeking Asylum in Australia: Best Practices and Challenges," Australian Psychologist, In Press (Forthcoming, 2021) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is under embargo until 22 July 2022. Copies can be requested from the author via the a/m link.

A Right to Come Home? Repatriation Rights & Policy in Australia, Governing during Crises Policy Brief, no. 11 (Univ. of Melbourne, April 2021) [text via APO]
- See also related blog post.

"Short Shrift to International Non-Refoulement Obligations? Australia’s Approach to Criminal Deportation," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 29 April 2021 [abstract]

Statistics on people seeking asylum in the community (Refugee Council of Australia, April 2021) [text]

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