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Book Review: ‘Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: a frank, up-to-date guide by experts’ – Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong
“Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs: a Frank, Up-to-date Guide by Experts”, Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong, UNSW Press, 2019, 277 pages This book by legal... Read More
Contempt, Criminalisation, and No Compassion: The UK’s Asylum System
The right to asylum is one of the oldest legal rights in the world and has been recognised by societies as divergent as Ancient Greece... Read More
A Review of “Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty and the Case of Australia”
Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia Eve Lester, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The state’s assertion of “absolute sovereignty” as the... Read More
Refugees’ Right to Physical Security: What does it Practically Mean?
The Law When one reads the term “right to physical security”, a basic understanding of what it means usually flirts with the idea of safety.... Read More
Paris? Melbourne? Public housing doesn’t just look the same, it’s part of the challenges refugees face
Whether in Melbourne or in Paris, African immigrants face social and cultural challenges, which public housing can either add to or help overcome. The public... Read More
UN Global Compact on Refugees: Developing an Australian National Action Plan
The Global Compact on Refugees, endorsed in late 2018, has introduced a new dynamic into efforts internationally to improve burden and responsibility sharing for large-scale... Read More
A Review of “Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World”
Refuge Lost: Asylum Law in an Interdependent World Daniel Ghezelbash, Cambridge University Press, 2018 The “refuge lost” in the book’s title is literally true in... Read More
Putting Gender on the Agenda in the Refugee “Crisis”
This post was originally published on the Social Sciences Birmingham blog at the University of Birmingham, UK. It has been slightly modified for publication on... Read More
The 2018 RAS Interdisciplinary Conference: A Review
The annual Researchers for Asylum Seekers Interdisciplinary Conference took place at the University of Melbourne in November, 2018. The conference showcased current research on issues... Read More
Book Review: “The Mess We’re In – Managing the Refugee Crisis”
Andrew Bennetts, “The Mess We’re In – Managing the Refugee Crisis”, Trabagem Publishing, Camberwell 2017, 400 pages (available from Amazon and Booktopia) Moved by the... Read More