Asylum seeker expert panel
Authors
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Research Chair in sociology, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Professor, International Agency Leadership, University of New England
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Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
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ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University
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Associate professor, The University of Queensland
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One of the debates that has escaped scrutiny since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers last month is what our annual refugee intake should actually look like. I acknowledge…
Many so-called “irregular migrants” who end up on boats bound for Australia have come through Malaysia at some stage of their odyssey to claim asylum and protection. Protection is vital for people fleeing…
We live in a culture in which the media frequently and prominently uses opinion polls, with findings presented as factual and unambiguous. In reality, interpretation is beset with difficulty, as illustrated…
Increasing our humanitarian settlement intake would help untangle the policy knot around irregular migration to Australia. Over the past decade, humanitarian visas have been capped at about 13,500 per…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimated some 7.1 million refugees were in “a protracted situation” in 2011. The term is used for refugee populations in exile for five or more…
Around the world, refugees from civil war are likely to flee first to the neighbouring countries across their land borders. Many stay there, usually wasting their lives in camps, becoming ever more depressed…
Over the past few weeks as the asylum debate has heated up, rumours and myths have been circulating with well-rehearsed mantras being repeated about the good, the bad and the downright ugly of asylum politics…
Since 2001, the Border Crossing Observatory estimates 840 people have died between Australia and Indonesia, including the equivalent of eight kindergarten classes of children. Policies of deterrence have…
For many years now Australia has engaged in border control collaboration with other countries in the region. We have out-posted our own immigration, customs, police and other officials in source countries…
This article was co-authored by Angela Nickerson. In the current political impasse concerning the off-shore processing of asylum seekers, all parties converge on one key priority: preventing asylum seekers…