Susan Kneebone

Susan Kneebone is a Professorial Fellow, and Senior Associate, Asian Law Centre, and Research Affiliate of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Susan supervises PhD students on refugee law, statelessness and forced migration in South East and East Asia and has written widely on law, governance, and forced migration on those issues. She is currently working on two Australia Research Council (ARC) funded projects : the role of community sponsorship for refugee resettlement in Australia and ‘Indonesia's refugee policies: responsibility, security and regionalism’. She recently completed an ARC project on: ‘Towards Development of a Legal Framework for Regulation of International Marriage Migration’.

Susan’s profile can be viewed at: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/14602-susan-kneebone

Her recent publications include:
Kneebone, ed, Comparative regional protection frameworks for refugees (Routledge 2017)
Kneebone S.Y, Stevens, D., and Baldassar, L., (eds) Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities (Routledge, 2014, 323pp)
Kneebone, et al., Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2009, 341pp)
Kneebone and Macklin, A., ‘Resettlement’ in Cathryn Costello, Jane McAdam and Michelle Foster eds The Oxford Handbook of Refugee Law (OUP 2021) Chapter 60, pp 1080-1098
Kneebone ‘Migration Marriage and Gender: A Site for Crimmigration? - An Australian Case Study’ in Peter Billings ed Crimmigration in Australia (Springer 2019) pp223-251
She is the author of many seminal articles including:
(with York, B., and Ariyawansa, S.), ‘Degrees of Statelessness: Children of Returned Marriage Migrants in Can Tho, Vietnam’, (2019) 1(1) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 69-94
‘The Bali Process and Global Refugee Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region’ (2014) 27 (4) Journal of Refugee Studies 596-618

Invited presentations include:
September 2022: Keynote address to Centre for Asian Legal Exchange (CALE), Nagoya University, Japan on ‘Migrating People and Migrating Norms: the East Asian Experience’
March 2022: Gender Equality in Nationality Matters and the Prevention of Statelessness – address on International Women’s Day organized by UNHCR and UNWomen.
March 2022: Commentary on Migration and Mobility Asia Pacific Working Paper at Workshop organized by Monash University Malaysia. Title of the paper: ‘Forced Migration Trends in the Asia Pacific’.

In January 2021: Appointed International Consultant on UNDP Vietnam project on international labour migration; October 2019-22: Appointment by British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), to Expert Panel (10 members) on Project: ‘Determinants of Anti-Trafficking’; November 2017 commissioned report for Centre for European Policy Studies on Offshore Processing; August 2016 and February 2015 conducted training for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Beijing on trafficking of ‘Vulnerable Marriage Migrants’.

In 2012 she was elected Secretary, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and was appointed to the Senior Research Associate Network and publication board of the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. In 2013 she was appointed an Institutional Partner with the Refugee Research Network, Refugee Studies Centre Canada funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. In December 2014 she was invited to the UNHCR Annual Dialogue on ‘Protection Challenges’, Geneva and in March 2015, to the Seventh Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law, University of Michigan Law School.

She has held visiting appointments at the European University Institute, Italy; Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University; the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore; Refugee Law Initiative, University of London and Centre for International Migration Studies, University of Montreal. She has organised a number of international workshops which have led to edited collections in leading international journals and is a partner on several international research projects on international and forced migration issues. She is frequently invited to contribute to international publications, and to review international publications and research applications.