Regional Focus: Australia & New Zealand

Blog posts & press:

3 ways community gardens often exclude migrants and refugees — and how to turn this around (The Conversation, Aug. 2021) [text]

Australia: 8 Years of Abusive Offshore Asylum Processing (Human Rights Watch, July 2021) [text]

- See also related UNHCR statement and Kaldor Centre factsheet.

Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions (The Conversation, Aug. 2021) [text]

"No Way Out?," Inside Story, 12 Aug. 2021 [text]

- "Twenty years — and many billions of dollars — later, Australia’s failed system of offshore detention lingers on."

Reports & journal articles: 

"Community Policing and the Syrian Refugee Community in Wellington District," National Security Journal, vol. 3, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

Cruel, costly and ineffective: the failure of offshore processing in Australia, Policy Brief, no. 11 (Kaldor Centre, Aug. 2021) [access]

- Follow link for text of the report and an audio interview with the authors. See also related press release and post on The Conversation.

"Dealing with the ‘Crimmigrant Other’ in the Face of a Global Public Health Threat: A Snapshot of Deportation during COVID-19 in Australia and New Zealand," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 8 (July 2021) [open access]

"Food Insecurity and Food Label Comprehension among Libyan Migrants in Australia," Nutrients, vol. 13, no. 7 (July 2021) [open access]

"It is All about the Numbers of Immigrants: Population and Politics in Australia and New Zealand," Chapter in Global Political Demography: The Politics of Population Change (Springer, Aug. 2021) [open access]

A Place to Call Home: A pilot survey of people seeking asylum in Greater Sydney (Jesuit Refugee Service & Western Sydney Univ., Aug. 2021) [text]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Australia (9 July 2021)