10 November 2021

Regional Focus: Australia

Blog posts & press:

"Australia to end offshore processing in Papua New Guinea," The Guardian, 5 Oct. 2021 [text]
- See also related UNHCR comment and NPR interview.

Building trust with migrant and refugee communities is crucial for public health measures to work (The Conversation, Sept. 2021) [text]

‘It’s given me love’: connecting women from refugee backgrounds with communities through art (The Conversation, Oct. 2021) [text]

Multibillion-dollar strategy with no end in sight: Australia’s ‘enduring’ offshore processing deal with Nauru  (The Conversation, Oct. 2021) [text]

The Nationality and Borders Bill: Lessons from Australia on the (re)interpretation of persecution and protection (RLI Blog, Oct. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles: 

"Audience constructions of fake news in Australian media representations of asylum seekers," Journal of Language and Politics, vol. 20, no. 5 (2021) [abstract]
- See also earlier related article that is freely available. 

"Australia’s Extraterritorial Border Control Policies," Chapter 4 in Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad (Cambridge Univ. Press, Aug. 2021) [open access]

"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]

"International Refugee Law in Crisis: Islands, Incarceration and Neo-Refoulment During COVID-19 Crisis," Australian Yearbook of International Law, vol. 39 (2021) [preprint]
- "This paper considers how pandemic conditions have accelerated the expansion of neo-refoulement methods, notably by looking at the situation on the Greek ‘hotspot’ islands with reference to Australian-Pacific arrangements."

"A Masterclass in Evading the Rule of Law: The Saga of Scott Morrison and Temporary Protection Visas," UNSW Law Journal, vol. 44, no. 3 (2021) [full-text]

"Provider perspectives on services for people seeking asylum in Australia: best practices and challenges," Australian Psychologist, vol. 56, no. 4 (2021) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 16 May 2022. See also related QUT news story and journal article.

Refugee Alternatives 2021 - Rebuilding: Resilience and Innovation, Conference Outcomes Report, 6-7 July 2021 (Refugee Council of Australia & Western Sydney Univ., Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Sharing responsibility, not shifting responsibility: How Australia can improve refugee protection in Asia-Pacific, ADI Policy Briefing Paper, vol. 2, no. 1 (Deakin Univ., 2021) [text]

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