The collision between the international asylum system and Australia’s highly developed and managed migration system has played out through detention centres, in northern waters and in offshore processing centres. The latest area of concern and contention is asylum seekers in the community for extended periods on Bridging Visa E, without work rights, income support or...

This study examined the extent to which English language, literacy and numeracy teachers used classroom management strategies to meet the needs of adult Sudanese refugee learners. While teachers met the needs of these learners insofar as they coincided with those of other refugee groups, the highly oral language culture of these learners appeared not to...

The Refugee Convention, of which Australia is a signatory, has been criticised for its narrow definition of a refugee, which restricts the convention's protection to that facing "persecution" in their home country. This paper proposes a new legal definition of a refugee premised on the non-violability of an individual's "human security."

Extraterritorial asylum policies – initiatives that seek to ‘deterritorialize’ the asylum system by providing protection to refugees and processing asylum claims outside the territory of the state implementing the policy – challenge fundamental features of the global refugee regime. Why did extraterritorial asylum policies in the UK and Australia rise to prominence in the early...

Since 2003-04 the majority of people resettled under the Australian Humanitarian Programme have come from Africa. Humanitarian entrants from Africa have experienced higher levels of disadvantage than entrants from previous source regions. This discussion paper presents a range of recommendations across a variety of policy areas in order to improve the settlement outcomes of recently...