Refugee Archives

This week is Refugee Week 2022 and we've got a load of refugee law and asylum content lined up for publication. We've started with an updated post on the legal definition of a refugee. We'll be updating our asylum system briefing as well and publishing some new content: keep your eyes peeled.We share our thoughts on the failed removal flight to Rwanda following tireless work by immigration lawyers from the Court of Appeal to Strasbourg. The Court of Appeal also concluded that public interest in deportations based on foreign and domestic criminal offences remains the same. Issues around Afghan citizens were in the news, both through the High Court decision that the Home Office must consider visa applications by Afghan judges and the launching of the long-awaited Afghan Citizenship Rese...

NOVANEWS By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research It all has a hurried sense to it. With the offshore detention system running into troubles, the Australian government has had to find ways to get rid of the human residents it has promised never to settle in the country. This highly dubious policy, far more than anything Donald Trump could ever wish for, entrenches a further wall of imperviousness to refugee claims from those travelling by boat to Australia. Max Chalmers provides a neat survey of the quagmire of cruelty that has unfolded over the years. “Three years after the initiation of Operation Sovereign Borders, four years after Australia recommended the transfer of refugees to Nauru, and 15 years after John Howard ground people rescued by the Tampa into political capi...

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Legal Definition of a Refugee

Bodies as Propaganda: The US-Australia Refugee Agreement