09 June 2021

Regional Focus: Australia

Events: 

Refugee Week Australia, 20-26 June 2021 [info]
- This year's theme is "Unity – The way forward."

Making Australia Home: A conversation with refugees about community and change, 25 June 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

Australia and migration: Will the Covid pause become a full stop? (The Interpreter Blog, May 2021) [text]

Australia’s abandoned refugees: nine years of exile in offshore purgatory (openDemocracy, June 2021) [text]

The Dangers of Penalising Irregular Arrivals: Lessons from the Australian Model of Offshore Processing (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]

Federal Court improves pathways to protection for more than a thousand asylum seekers taken to Ashmore reef (Australian Human Rights Commission, May 2021) [text]

New Government Laws Permit Indefinite Detention and Reversal of Refugee Status (Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog, May 2021) [text]
- See also related joint statement from refugee law organizations.

Refugee Communities as Agents of Historical Change: Tamil Refugee Responses during the Coronavirus Pandemic (Critical Refugee Studies Blog, May 2021) [text]

Torture in a Kyriarchcal system (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2021) [text]

Travel Bans and Crimmigration: A New Front for Australia (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Boat People and the Entrenchment of Exclusion," Chapter 15 in Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia, vol. 1 (Thomson Reuters, Feb. 2021) [preprint]

Bridging the Department's Visa Blindspot (Liberty Victoria, April 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report, press release and video recording of report launch. See also related blog post.

The Federal Budget: What it means for refugees and people seeking humanitarian protection (Refugee Council of Australia, May 2021) [text]
- See also related press release.

"Has Covid-19 Exposed the Impacts of Australia's Neoliberal Immigration Policies? A Critical Review of Australia's Ambivalence Towards Temporary Migrant Inclusion and Protection," University of New South Wales Law Journal Student Series, no. 3 (2021) [full-text]

"Provider perspectives on services for people seeking asylum in Australia: best practices and challenges," Australian Psychologist, Latest Articles, 16 May 2021 [postprint]
- Note: Access to this text is under embargo until 13 May 2022.

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