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Upcoming Event: ‘We don’t want to give away how you hack the system’: An Emotional History of the Department of Immigration and Child Refugees
Dr Jordy Silverstein explores what can be learnt about the place of child refugees in Australian policy history. Presented by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute... Read More
Political Considerations of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis and its Ramifications
According to the UNHCR, over a million Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar, most of them women and children who have almost nothing and... Read More
Book Review: “The Road Before Me Weeps” – Nick Thorpe
“The Road Before Me Weeps: on the refugee route through Europe”, Nick Thorpe, Yale University Press, 2019, 332 pages As a long-time BBC correspondent in... 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
Who Are Palestinian Refugees?
A brief historical account of Israeli and Palestinian conflict The Palestinian and Israeli conflict has been ongoing since the 1800s. Initially, the migration of European... Read More
Why Europe shouldn’t follow Australia’s lead on asylum seekers
Australia’s harsh asylum policies have been touted as a possible solution to Europe’s so-called refugee crisis. Politicians in the UK, France, Holland, Denmark, Austria and... Read More
Australia and Refugees: Protection in Name Only?
As a party to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol (henceforth “the Refugee Convention”), Australia is obliged to refrain... Read More
A Case for Altruistic Smuggling and Human Emotion
In the summer of 1999, I started following North Korean refugees as a researcher. I was at the border town in China, just a few... Read More
South Africa and its current responses to combating human trafficking
Human trafficking is one of the most egregious human rights violations in the current era, bringing high earnings to traffickers through the acquisition and exploitation... 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