17
Oct

Australia’s Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record

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Australia has been elected to a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. It will serve on the council from 2018 to 2020. The announcement overnight formalised an assumed result: Australia and Spain were the only two countries seeking election to the two available seats for the Western Europe and Others group. Most of...
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16
Oct

Processing centres in North Africa are not the answer for EU refugees

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Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron invited his counterparts from Libya, Niger, Chad, Italy, Germany and Spain to Paris to discuss ways of stopping the flow of irregular migrants and refugees through transit countries. The leaders explored the possibility of establishing processing facilities in North Africa to identify refugees and turn back anyone who does...
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13
Sep

Indonesian cities and regencies may be asked to shelter refugees – will they comply?

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A presidential decree on refugees released last December finally acknowledges asylum seekers and refugees for what they are – people in need of protection. Prior to this, Indonesia categorised foreigners arriving in Indonesia seeking protection from wars or persecution in their home countries as “irregular” or even “illegal immigrants”, obstructing their search for effective protection....
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11
Sep

RESEARCHERS FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

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THURSDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2017 – THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Spotlight: Forced Migration and Human Rights   The conference is intended to accommodate postgraduate researchers – past and present – as well as practitioners and policy makers/advisors working in the field. Proposals concerning this year’s conference spotlight on forced migration and human...
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5
Sep

The Dublin IV Recast: A Missed Opportunity

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On 4 May 2016, the European Commission submitted a proposal for a recast of the Dublin system[1]. This proposal formed a part of the European Commission’s broader political agenda to fundamentally reform the Common European Asylum System. According to the European Commission’s April 2016 policy plan, the 2015 refugee crisis had exposed the ‘structural weaknesses...
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16
Aug

Exploring refugee women’s settlement experiences in Australia through photovoice

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Research exploring issues faced on resettlement from a gender perspective is relatively recent and a growing area of inquiry [1, 2]. For refugee women, key issues include psychosocial wellbeing and mental health, linked to stressors including isolation, loss of social support networks upon migration, racism and discrimination and low socioeconomic status [1]. More often, women’s...
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9
Aug

Has the EU really solved its refugee crisis?

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Less than two years after the European Union was confronted with an unprecedented influx of refugees, during which over a million people from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond flooded Europe’s borders, EU officials are saying that the migrant crisis is under control. For this, the EU credits its March 2016 agreement with Turkey, which was...
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