Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs
Author: Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong
Publisher: UNSW Press
Print Length: 288 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Law, Political Science, Migration & Refugee Studies
Area: Australia
Topic: Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Refugee System, Human Rights, Fundamental Rights and Liberties, Responses to Refugees; Law, Jurisprudence, Legal Theory; Law Enforcement, International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Politics & Power, Refugee Offshore Processing, Boat Turnbacks, Detention,
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law. However, successive governments in Australia have declared the need to ‘stop the boats’ whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal.
In this new book, Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong find that Australia’s policies towards refugees have hardened since their bestselling Refugees: Why seeking asylum is legal and Australia’s policies are notwas published in 2014. Now, Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs provides a wholly updated account of Australian refugee law and policy.
Bringing facts to bear on a highly politicised debate, McAdam and Chong explain why Australia falls short of its own international commitments when it comes to policies on offshore processing, detention and boat turnbacks, among others. This up-to-date account of Australia’s refugee laws and policies could not come at a more crucial time and is compelling reading for anyone seeking to understand the human impacts of Australia’s practices.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Refugees and International Law
2. Identifying Who Is a Refugee
3. Debunking Common Myths
4. Mandatory Detention
5. Offshore Processing
6. Turning Back Boats
7. Regional Protection
8. Legal Assistance
9. Why International Law Matters
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Jane McAdam is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW. She is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Research Associate at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre, an Associated Senior Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway, and a Senior Research Associate of the Refugee Law Initiative in London. She was a non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution, Washington DC from 2012–16 and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in fall 2019. She has a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford, and first class honours degrees in law and history from the University of Sydney. She publishes widely in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on climate change, disasters and displacement. She has special expertise on cross-border relocations, especially in the Pacific, and a keen interest in the global history of refugee and migration law. She has been an expert advisor to the UNHCR, IOM, and the World Bank’s Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration, and was appointed to draft a Pacific Regional Framework on Climate Mobility.
Source: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/jane-mcadam
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Fiona Chong is a lawyer and was recently a Human Rights Fellow in the Master of Laws program at Columbia University. She has previously worked as a lawyer at the Refugee Advice and Casework Service and as a Postgraduate Public Interest Fellow at Refugees International.
Source: https://www.asyluminsight.com/c-jane-mcadam-and-fiona-chong
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