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Mental Health Screening Tool For Asylum Seekers And Refugees: The STAR-MH
There is no extant brief and sensitive mental health screening tool for asylum seekers and new refugees (ASR) designed to be administered by non-mental-health trained... Read More
Processing centres in North Africa are not the answer for EU refugees
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... Read More
Indonesian cities and regencies may be asked to shelter refugees – will they comply?
A presidential decree on refugees released last December finally acknowledges asylum seekers and refugees for what they are – people in need of protection. Prior... Read More
The Dublin IV Recast: A Missed Opportunity
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... Read More
Who is anti-migrant? The personality traits behind prejudice
Negative attitudes toward migrant populations and refugees is a popular topic of study among prejudice researchers, with these groups being almost universally maligned in their... Read More
The Impact of Deterrence on Victims of Torture
Australia’s refugee status determination (RSD) system has been explicitly focused on deterring asylum-seeking since at least 2012 when the former government’s ‘Expert Panel’ was tasked... Read More
Injustices and the Art of Realpolitik
The latest instalment of Australia’s Pacific Solution has been an exercise in state-sanctioned cruelty. Hardly a week goes by without new revelations about the mistreatment... Read More
Public attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees
Australian politicians have a long history of using dehumanising language to influence public opinion against people seeking asylum, particularly those arriving by boat (Clark 2013,... Read More
‘The end is nigh’: What should happen after Nauru and Manus close?
Australia’s offshore processing experiment, involving the detention of asylum seekers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea (PNG), has failed. Earlier last year, the Supreme Court... Read More
Legal Update: Discrimination Law to Protect Refugees in the ACT
As a practicing lawyer, I heard refugees and asylum-seeker clients describe discrimination and harassment as common. They were often unaware that it was unlawful and... Read More