UNSW Kaldor Centre: Recent Episodes
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The Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW is the world’s first research centre dedicated to the study of international refugee law. Through high-quality research feeding into public policy debate and legislative reform, the Centre brings a principled, human rights-based approach to refugee law and forced migration in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region, and globally. It provides an independent space to connect academics, policymakers and NGOs, and creates an important bridge between scholarship and practice. It also provides thought leadership in the community through public engagement and community outreach.
In a world fractured by fear and misinformation, how do we rebuild trust and advance refugee protection? Hugh de Kretser delivers a powerful closing keynote on bridging divides, through truth, empathy, and collective action. This is a call to move beyond rhetoric and create systems that work for refugees and communities alike. Closing keynote address recorded at the 2025 Kaldor Centre Conference, Building bridges: Advancing refugee protection in a divided world.SpeakerHugh de Kretser, President, Australian Human Rights CommissionWhy ListenLearn why human rights frameworks remain essential for refugee protection in polarized timesDiscover strategies to counter fear-driven narratives and misinformation about refugeesSee how collaboration across sectors and communities can rebuild trust and deliver solutionsBe inspired by a vision for inclusive, rights-based systems that unite rather than divide
Professor, Australian National UniversityHafsar Tameesuddin, Co-Secretary General, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights NetworkWhy ListenDiscover cross-sector coalitions stepping into protection deficitsUnderstand how legal advocacy and strategic litigation influence policyLearn the power of grassroots and refugee-led networks in crisis responsesSee what success can look like when refugees and civil society lead together
Executive Director, Forcibly Displaced People NetworkDr Tristan Harley, Senior Research Associate, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee LawNajeeba Wazefadost, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Network of RefugeesWhy ListenLearn how refugees are moving from surface-level consultation to genuine collaborationSee how LGBTIQA+ voices and refugee-led networks strengthen inclusionExplore practical models for shared decision-making in policy developmentWitness innovative frameworks built by refugees, for refugees
Media Kylea Tink, Former MP (North Sydney), seasoned leader and social advocateSaul Wodak, Behavioural Insights Advisor at BIT Sydney, expert in countering misinformation Why You Should WatchLearn evidence-based techniques to bridge divides on contentious topicsHear how communities have amplified refugee voices and built common ground*Discover ways to challenge misinformation and break through algorithmic biases
A with Mohammed Naeem and Daniel Ghezelbash in conversation during question timeWhy ListenUnderstand why the Refugee Convention remains vital and why implementation, not the law itself, is failing.Learn how polarization and misinformation threaten refugee protection and what works to rebuild trust.Discover why imagination and community-driven solutions are key to designing inclusive, lasting systems.Hear a powerful call to elevate refugee leadership and show that caring isn’t just moral, it works.TranscriptsDaniel Ghezelbash opening remarks: https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/11/the-refugee-convention-is-under-threat--but-it-is-not-the-probleMohammed Naeem keynote address: https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/11/mohammed-naeem-gives-keynote-address-at-the-2025-kaldor-centre-c
10 Years of the Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda (NIPA +10): Reflections from the frontlines of the Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement In October 2015, 109 states endorsed the Agenda for the Protection of Cross-Border Displaced Persons in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change ('Nansen Agenda'), providing a toolbox of concrete policy options and proposing a series of recommendations for future work.The agenda was the result of the Nansen Initiative, a state-led process to address the protection needs of people displaced across borders due to disasters and climate change. The Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) was established in 2016 to carry on the work of the Nansen Initiative and help put its recommendations into practice. In this podcast, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement, Professor Walter Kälin, who was formerly Envoy of the Nansen Initiative, chats with Professor Jane McAdam AO about the major advances, and enduring challenges, in protection for people displaced in the context of disasters and climate change.Learn more: https://disasterdisplacement.org/the-platform/the-context/ https://www.unsw.edu.au/kaldor-centre
Governments are increasingly turning to digital technologies such as GPS ankle monitors and tracking apps as so-called “alternatives to detention.” But a new report from UNSW Sydney’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, the International Detention Coalition and the Refugee Law Lab shows these tools too often replicate detention in digital form, restricting liberty, undermining dignity and causing real harm for people on the move.This is a recording from a launch event held on 16 September 2025, to present the findings of a global study and introduce 10 Guiding Principles for ensuring technology reduces, rather than expands, detention.Listen to explore how governments, civil society and technologists can move towards genuine rights-based alternatives that promote freedom, dignity and community integration.With thanks to the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of Geneva for kindly hosting this event, and to Robert Bosch Stiftung for its generous support for this project. Read the report: Download: 'From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention' [https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/2025-09-technology-in-alternatives-to-detention.pdf]
A recording of an online seminar held on 12 June 2025, hosted by UNSW's Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, and the Australian Institute of Administrative Law (NSW).In the November 2023 case of NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, the High Court unanimously held that non-citizens could not be held in immigration detention when there was ‘no real prospect of removal from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future’. Since NZYQ, numerous cases have tested and refined the limits of this principle, including: ASF17 v Commonwealth; YBFZ v Minister for Immigration; and CZA19 v Commonwealth. This online seminar will explore these developments and the limits of administrative detention.SpeakersKate Bones is a Barrister at Banco Chambers with specialist expertise in public and administrative law. Kate appeared for the Human Rights Law Centre and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law as amicus curiae in NZYQ v the Minister for Immigration and for the plaintiff in YBFZ v Minister for Immigration.Sanmati Verma is a Legal Director (Principal) of the Human Rights Law Centre. She has specialised in migration law for over 10 years and has represented a number of clients in immigration detention. The Human Rights Law Centre intervened as amicus curiae in NZYQ v the Minister for Immigration and on behalf of AZC20 in ASF17 v Commonwealth.Douglas McDonald-Norman is a PhD candidate at UNSW Law + Justice, a Barrister at Eight Selborne Chambers, and as of July 2025 will be a Lecturer at UTS Faculty of Law. Douglas specialises in administrative law, migration law and refugee law.Chair: Anna Talbot is the Coordinator of the Strategic Litigation Network at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and a PhD candidate at UNSW Law & Justice.
In 2027, governments are expected to adopt the world’s first-ever global treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters — a landmark step toward strengthening international responses in a time of intensifying climate risks. Yet, the current draft of the treaty barely mentions displacement at all. Our latest Policy Brief explains why that must change — and how. Here, co-authors UNSW Kaldor Centre's Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO and Dr Thomas Mulder discuss 'Foregrounding displacement and evacuations in the proposed treaty on the protection of persons in the event of disasters'. Recorded 20 May 2025Read Policy Brief 17: Foregrounding Displacement and Evacuations in the Proposed Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/2025-05-policy-brief-foregrounding-displacement-treaty.pdf
Learn more about a ground-breaking new global toolkit to guide legal practitioners and decision-makers faced with refugee claims involving the impacts of climate change and disasters.'International Protection for People Displaced across Borders in the context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Practical Toolkit' is a clear, systematic guide to this issue (https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/resource/2025-02-climate-protection-toolkit-full-eng.pdf).Listen to the speed briefing to quickly get an understanding of when, why and how existing refugee and human rights law can protect people forced to leave their homes in situations where climate change or disasters play a role. In this quick overview of the Practical Toolkit, hear from Professor Jane McAdam AO and Dr Tamara Wood, UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (authors) and Dr Madeline Garlick, Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section at UNHCR. This Practical Toolkit has been developed by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney; the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco; and the School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and with support from Open Society Foundations.
A recording of a speed briefing held on Tuesday, 11 March 2025, to learn more about how misinformation works and what to do about it.For those who want a truthful discussion, yet may sometimes struggle to respond to false claims, a new report is designed to help you know what to do and when: Countering misinformation about refugees and migrants: An evidence-based framework, find it here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/kaldor-centre/our-resources/legal-and-policy-resources/countering-misinformationWith an easy-to-follow decision tree and how-to examples, this report can equip you to respond across a range of situations— and lays the groundwork for you to create responses aligned with your own aims. Co-authors Professor Daniel Ghezelbash (UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law) and Saul Wodak (Behavioural Insights Team) step through the framework, empowering you to create stronger, fact-based conversations.
A recording of the celebratory launch of 'Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination' held on 20 November 2024. This was a hybrid panel event co-hosted by UNSW's Centre for Criminology, Law & Justice, and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, in conversation with Dr Anthea Vogl, Dr Tina Dixson, Associate Professor Maria Giannacopoulos and Professor Daniel Ghezelbash. In 'Judging Refugees', Anthea Vogl investigates the black box of the refugee oral hearing and the politics of narrative within individualised processes for refugee status determination (RSD). Drawing on a rich archive of administrative oral hearings in Australia and Canada, Vogl sets global trends of diminished and fast-tracked RSD against the critical role played by the discretionary spaces of refugee decision-making, and the gate-keeping functions of credibility assessment.About the author:Anthea Vogl is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She teaches and researches in the fields of refugee and migration law, focusing on the social and legal categories of the refugee and non-citizen, executive decision-making, and the criminology of border control. Guest speakers:Dr Tina Dixson (she/her) is an early career academic, advocate, and social policy professional with experience in advancing LGBTIQA+ equality, refugee protection, and responses to gender-based violence. Tina has her own experience of queer displacement, having been forced to leave Ukraine with her partner Dr Renee Dixson due to their LGBTIQA+ activism.Dr Maria Giannacopoulos (she/her) is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Criminology Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She holds a BA(Hons) LLB (Hons) and a PhD in Cultural Studies and is a leading scholar in decolonising approaches to law and criminology. Dr Daniel Ghezelbash (he/him) is Professor of Law and the Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow. www.unsw.edu.au/kaldor-centre
A recording of the inaugural Kaldor Centre Oration, delivered by Kate Eastman AM SC and Zaki Haidari on 21 November 2024. The Kaldor Centre Oration is a new flagship lecture hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, designed to enrich the public conversation on refugee issues by showcasing transformational ideas that can spark fresh thinking and action. It is a valuable opportunity to build shared understanding and positive solutions.The inaugural 2024 event builds upon the Kaldor Centre’s track record of thought leadership, stemming from more than a decade of principled, evidence-based contributions to the refugee debate. This recording is for anyone interested in creating a better future – be they people with lived experience of displacement, civil society, legal practitioners, policymakers, business leaders or community members.About the speakers: Kate Eastman AM SC is a Sydney barrister working in the fields in human rights, discrimination, employment, public and constitutional law. Over her 30 years practicing as a lawyer, Kate has been committed to human rights and equality. At Allens, she represented asylum seekers in detention in Port Hedland. She then worked at the Australian Human Rights Commission before joining the Bar in 1998. Between 2019 – 2023, she was Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. She has taught human rights law at UTS, Monash University and the University of Sydney, and in Burma and Uganda. Kate is chair of the Australian Bar Association’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and the Law Council of Australia’s Equal Opportunity Committee. In 2023, she was appointed a Commissioner of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.Kate has received the Law and Justice Foundation’s Justice Award (2003), the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Award for Law (2019), a Lifetime Achievement Award from Women Lawyers Association (NSW) (2022), and the Law Council of Australia’s President’s Award (2022). She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law, to human rights, and to professional organisations.Zaki Haidari is a 2020 Australian Human Rights Commission Human Rights Hero, an Ambassador for Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS), and works at Amnesty International Australia as a Strategic Campaigner. Zaki is also a highly respected commentator in the media on refugee rights. Zaki is himself a refugee. He fled Afghanistan at age 17, targeted by the Taliban after his father was ‘disappeared’ and this brother murdered. He survived a terrifying boat journey and arrived in Australia seeking protection in 2012. Since then, despite social, legal and financial obstacles, he has thrived. Having arrived with little English, in 2015, just three years after he came to Australia, he won the NSW Government’s International Student of the Year Award (2015). He has also completed a Diploma in Computing and a Diploma in Graphic Design.Zaki is a compelling human rights advocate. Even while he was on a temporary protection visa, and since he was granted permanent protection, Zaki has continually and courageously shared his experience and expertise with the media and the wider community, speaking out about the cruel regime of permanent temporariness faced by people like him who came to Australia by sea seeking safety.
Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO, explains why Australia needs a new emergency visa to respond to humanitarian crises, which she and her co-author, Dr Regina Jefferies, propose as part of a broader emergency response framework in their new policy brief. Having a framework that could be activated in a crisis would enable a more predictable, streamlined and effective response.In the context of people fleeing the war in Gaza, and reports that the government is considering creating a new emergency visa, the policy brief has vital importance for individuals, policymakers and advocates across the sector. Watch to quickly get an understanding of the evidence behind their proposals for a better approach – for all concerned.The Kaldor Centre’s Evacuations Research Hub is a five-year project established in July, funded by an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, to analyse why and how evacuations are used; what legal standards govern their conduct; and when and how they come to an end. Scientia Professor of Law and Laureate Fellow Jane McAdam AO is its Director, and Dr Regina Jefferies is a Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow.
UNSW's Kaldor Centre was established as the Abbott government came to power with its “stop the boats” campaign; the Centre showed the power of starting with hope, becoming the world’s first centre dedicated to the study of international refugee law. For a decade, Jane McAdam AO has steered the Centre as an authoritative, non-partisan voice of reason, playing a unique and valued role among those seeking a better approach to refugee issues in Australia, the region and internationally. Here McAdam shares stories from her time at the helm of UNSW's Kaldor Centre.
A recording of the closing keynote address at the 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference: 'Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration' held on 20 November 2023.Kaldor Centre Director, Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO, reflected on the day’s discussions and the implications of future megatrends for international refugee law. Will international refugee law still have relevance a decade from now? What role can – and should – it play as the adverse impacts of climate change, enhanced technological surveillance and increasing automation of decision-making influence who is able to move across borders, and how they are treated when they arrive?
Recording of Panel Session 3 at the 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration' held on 20 November 2023 at UNSW Sydney.Speakers: Peter Lewis, Executive Director, Essential MediaAmanda Tattersall, Associate Professor of Practice, Sydney Policy LabLenore Taylor, Editor, Guardian AustraliaShabnam Safa, Chairperson, National Refugee-led Advisory and Advocacy GroupChair: Lauren Martin, Communications Manager, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee LawAs the Kaldor Centre embarked on its 10th anniversary, our flagship conference harnessed strategic foresight to inform the agenda for the decade to come. The 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference took participants 10 years into the future, to explore the forced migration challenges we may face in the decade to come. The purpose was not to predict the future, but to help us to be better prepared to shape the future we want to see and to help us think afresh about what we might need to do today to ensure protection for displaced people in the decade to come.
Recording of Panel Session 2 at the 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration' held on 20 November 2023 at UNSW Sydney.Speakers: Cathryn Costello, Professor of Global Refugee & Migration Law, University College DublinNiamh Kinchin, Acting Dean of Law, University of WollongongEdward Santow, Director, Policy & Governance, Human Technology Institute, University of Technology SydneyShahyar Roushan, Senior Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Migration & Refugee DivisionChair: Daniel Ghezelbash, Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee LawAs the Kaldor Centre embarked on its 10th anniversary, our flagship conference harnessed strategic foresight to inform the agenda for the decade to come. The 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference took participants 10 years into the future, to explore the forced migration challenges we may face in the decade to come. The purpose was not to predict the future, but to help us to be better prepared to shape the future we want to see and to help us think afresh about what we might need to do today to ensure protection for displaced people in the decade to come.
Panel session recording from the 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration' held on 20 November 2023 at UNSW Sydney.Speakers: Magdalena Arias Cubas, Red Cross Red Crescent Global Migration LabLouis Everuss, Centre Coordinator, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, University of South Australia Adama Kamara, Deputy CEO, Refugee Council of Australia Nikolas Feith Tan, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute of Human RightsChair: Madeline Gleeson, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee LawAs the Kaldor Centre embarked on its 10th anniversary, our flagship conference harnessed strategic foresight to inform the agenda for the decade to come. The 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference took participants 10 years into the future, to explore the forced migration challenges we may face in the decade to come. The purpose was not to predict the future, but to help us to be better prepared to shape the future we want to see and to help us think afresh about what we might need to do today to ensure protection for displaced people in the decade to come.
How do we start thinking about the future of forced migration? A recording of the opening keynote address from the 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration'. A dynamic day-long program that challenged participants to step out of today’s set agenda to look forward to 2033 and consider, is the international protection regime capable of providing protection amid the seismic shifts underway? How can we ready law, policy and public debate to ensure protection for those who need it?Keynote presenter Aarathi Krishnan brought her vast experience in humanitarian and development foresight to steer us on our journey into the future – and how we can prepare for it today. A Harvard scholar, TED favourite and one of ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics’, Krishnan was Strategic Foresight Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme–Asia Pacific. Recorded 20 November 2023 by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
A recording of the opening remarks from the 2023 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Learning from the future: Foresight for the next decade of forced migration' to set the scene for the day long event.The conference took participants 10 years into the future, to explore the forced migration challenges we may face in the decade to come. The purpose was not to predict the future, but to help us to be better prepared to shape the future we want to see.The keynote presentations set out big trends and questions to spark longer term thinking. The panel sessions discussed three distinct future scenarios set in 2033. These were intended to provide a 'sandpit' within which to explore the challenges and opportunities before us, to help us think afresh about what we might need to do today to ensure protection for displaced people in the decade to come.Speaker: Frances Voon, Executive Manager, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee LawRecorded on 20 November 2023
NZYQ v Minister for Immigration (NZYQ) changed the landscape for immigration detainees in Australia. It led to the release of at least 149 people from indefinite immigration detention where there was no real prospect of removing them from Australia in the 'reasonably foreseeable future’. It also led to the rapid passage of new legislative provisions that could be used to restrict the freedom of those released. Under this legislation, the Commonwealth can seek Community Safety Orders if those released are considered to pose an ‘unacceptable risk of seriously harming the community by committing a serious violent or sexual offence’, allowing re-detention or the imposition of other restrictive conditions. Continuing detention orders have been accepted by the High Court of Australia as valid for people convicted of serious violent, sex or terrorism crimes in Australia. Community Safety Orders, however, differ from continuing detention orders in important ways, and they have not yet been tested in Australian courts. This fully subscribed event was held on 3 April 2024, and sought to examine Community Safety Orders in detail, explaining what they are and what you should do if the Commonwealth seeks to issue one to your client. It also sought to examine the broader ramifications of NZYQ, including the conditions that people are being released under.Speakers included:Scientia Professor George Williams, UNSW Law, leading Australian constitutional scholar, who can advise on the possible constitutional ramifications of NZYQ and follow up cases. Paul Coady, NSW Public Defender, who has ample experience responding to continuing detention orders under state and territory legislation and can provide insight into how the existing system operates.Sanmati Verma, Acting Legal Director at the Human Rights Law Centre, who represents a number of clients in immigration detention and, along with the Kaldor Centre, intervened as amicus curiae in NZYQ v the Minister for Immigration. Sanmati will explain how NZYQ has impacted on immigration detainees since it was determined and what the future might hold for them.Chair: Anna Talbot, Affiliate and Strategic Litigation Network Coordinator, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
As the number of displaced people around the world continues to increase, the gap between the needs and availability of durable solutions grows wider. Resettlement plays an important role in providing solutions, and there is an increasing recognition of the potential role of complementary pathways, which can provide access to safety through other migration channels. These include labour mobility, education pathways, and community sponsorship programs. What is the current state of play in resettlement and complementary pathways? What potential do they hold to provide solutions to a greater number of displaced people?On 27 February 2024, a panel of international experts provided an update on current developments from around the world, in an event jointly hosted by the Refugee Council of Australia and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. This year, Australia was the chair of the Consultations on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways (CRCP), the most important multilateral forum for UNHCR, States, NGOs, private sector representatives, academics and refugees to discuss resettlement and complementary pathways. International delegates gathered in Sydney as part of these consultations, and this free public event provided an opportunity to hear from some of these global experts.Moderated by:Basma Alawee, Deputy Executive Director of the Community Sponsorship Hub, USASpeakers included:Jackie Keegan, Head of Resettlement and Complementary Pathways Service, UNHCRColm O'Gorman, Global Director, Community Engagement, Pathways InternationalMohammad Naeem, Deputy Director, Strategy and Partnerships, American Immigration Council and a member of the CRCP Refugee Advisory Group
As Shuja Jamal walked to the Presidential Palace in Kabul for work at 8.30am on 15 August 2021, ‘it was clear that this is unlike any other day … something in the air in the city ... You can actually feel it.’ Shuja is the former director-general for international relations for Afghanistan’s National Security Council, and his new book is 'The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan', co-authored with William Maley. He takes us back to the day the Taliban took over.
Ahmad Shuja Jamal speaks with the Kaldor Centre's Lauren Martin.
Rejoignez des chercheurs de premier plan sur la mobilité climatique en Afrique alors qu’ils discutent du lancement de la nouvelle série de publications Climate Mobility Africa Insights. Développé et publié par le Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), avec le généreux soutien de la Fondation Robert Bosch et du Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Insights vise à faire progresser les réponses juridiques et politiques fondées sur des données probantes à la mobilité climatique en Afrique. Rejoignez des chercheurs de domaines tels que la réduction des risques de catastrophe, la transhumance, la violence sexuelle et fondée sur le genre et les droits de la personne, alors qu’ils partagent leurs points de vue sur les défis actuels et les options futures en matière de lois et de politiques.
Les notes d’orientation et les fiches d’information d’Insights constituent une ressource incontournable pour les gouvernements africains, les décideurs et les autres chercheurs travaillant sur la mobilité climatique en Afrique. La série Insights offre également une formation et un soutien éditorial aux auteurs qui souhaitent publier leurs recherches, faisant progresser la diversité et la représentation dans le dialogue politique sur la mobilité climatique en Afrique et au-delà.
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Dr Rose Auma est maître de conférences à l’Université des sciences et technologies Masinde Muliro (MMUST), Kenya, et administratrice du Réseau de recherche sur la mobilité climatique en Afrique (CMARN)
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Dr Cheikh Tidiane Wade est géographe à l’Université Assane Seck, Sénégal
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Christina Daskiewicz est chargée de projet à la Division de la migration, de l’environnement, du changement climatique et de la réduction des risques de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM)
Join leading researchers on climate mobility in Africa as they discuss they launch of the new Climate Mobility Africa Insights publication series. Developed and published by the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), with the generous support of Robert Bosch Foundation and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Insights aims to advance evidence-based law and policy responses to climate mobility in Africa. Join researchers from fields such as disaster risk reduction, transhumance, sexual and gender-based violence and human rights, as they share insights into current challenges and future law and policy options.
Insights policy briefs and fact sheets provide a ‘go to’ resource for African governments, policy makers and other researchers working to address climate mobility in Africa. The Insights series also provides training and editorial support to authors who wish to publish their research, advancing diversity and representation within policy dialogue regarding climate mobility in Africa and beyond.
Speakers: • Professor Ademola Oluborode Jegede is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Venda, South Africa • Dr Nicodemus Nyandiko is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Disaster Management and Sustainable Development at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya • Dr Oluwatoyin Adejonwo is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos and a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
In June 2023, as the last refugee in Nauru was flown back to Australia, the United Kingdom's attempts to introduce an Australian-style offshore processing policy were dealt a blow in the UK courts. The UK had tried to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their claims for protection processed there. The British policy reflects that which Australia has operated since 2012, sending people who came by boat seeking safety to Nauru and Papua New Guinea to have their asylum claims processed. But on the 29th of June this year, the England and Wales Court of Appeal ruled that Rwanda was not a safe third country, effectively ending for now, the Government's offshore processing plans.
To explain this policy and help us understand the implications of the recent court judgment, Kaldor Centre Senior Research Fellow Madeline Gleeson speaks with Dr. Natalie Hodgson, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham, and head of the Forced Migration Unit in the university's Human Rights Law Centre.
Forced to flee Bhutan as a refugee, Om Dhungel is today an award-winning community leader in Western Sydney and a debut author, whose new book is described by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as simply ‘a great Australian story’.
This special panel event was held on 18 May 2023, with Om Dhungel and CEO of Settlement Services International (SSI) Violet Roumeliotis AM, in conversation exploring what we all can learn – about refugee leadership, wellbeing, and belonging – from this story of grit and hope. Moderated by Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam AO, the event celebrated the publication of 'Bhutan to Blacktown: Losing everything and finding Australia' (NewSouth, 2023) by Om Dhungel with James Button.
Presented in partnership with New South Books, Settlement Services International, Community Migrant Resources Centre, SydWest Multicultural Services and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO talks to Julia Morris about her new book, 'Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru' on 23 February 2023. This book provides an extraordinary glimpse into Nauru’s offshore processing arrangement and its impact on islanders, workforces, and migrant populations. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva, as well as the archives of the British Phosphate Commission, Julia Morris charts the country’s colonial connection to phosphate through to a new industrial sector in asylum. She explores how this extractive industry is peopled by an ever-shifting cast of refugee lawyers, social workers, clinicians, policy makers, and academics globally and how the very structures of Nauru’s colonial phosphate industry, and the legacy of the ‘phosphateer’ era, made it easy for a new human extractive sector to take root on the island.The book also highlights the institutional fabric, discourses, and rhetoric that inform the governance of migration around the world. Morris illuminates how refugee rights activism and #RefugeesWelcome-style movements are caught up in the hardening of border enforcement operations worldwide, calling for freedom of movement that goes beyond adjudicating hierarchies of suffering.Julia Morris is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.Jane McAdam AO is Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney.
UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) co-hosted a discussion held on 9 February 2023 with Behrouz Boochani, as he concluded his first visit to Australia. The discussion explored Behrouz’s complicated path to freedom, and the role of courage, collaboration and creativity in challenging a dehumanising asylum system.The first part of the panel featured Madeline Gleeson (Kaldor Centre) and Zaki Haidari (Amnesty International) with Behrouz’s translator and collaborator, Moones Mansoubi, and Guardian Australia’s Ben Doherty.In the second part of the discussion, Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian join Moones Mansoubi and Ben Doherty for a discussion about the new book, Freedom, Only Freedom (Bloomsbury 2022), and the liberating power of writing, creative relationships and resistance. The panel is hosted by RACS Director Sarah Dale and Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam AO.
A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 17 November 2022.As asylum processes are shifted offshore, how can governments be held accountable for the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers beyond their borders?Join Behrouz Boochani (Author and journalist); Itamar Mann (University of Haifa); Anna Talbot (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law); Elahe Zivardar (Director, 'Searching for Aramsayesh Gah'); and Chair: Riona Moodley (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law).
A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 17 November 2022.How can we create a more constructive public conversation about refugees?Join Barat Ali Batoor (Photojournalist); Tom Hashemi (Cast from Clay); Amanda Ripley (Journalist and author); and Chair: Lauren Martin (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law)
A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 16 November 2022. Does the Global North’s response to people fleeing Ukraine signal a renewed commitment to international protection, or a turn towards more geographically proximate and time-bound responses?Join Arif Hussein (Refugee Advice and Casework Service); Yulia Ioffe, (University College London); Catherine Woollard (European Council on Refugees and Exiles); and Chair: Jane McAdam (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law)
A panel event recording from the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 16 November 2022. What practical actions can advance the meaningful participation of refugees in representative decision-making?Join Mustafa Alio (R-SEAT); Sana Ali Mustafa (Asylum Access); Najeeba Wazefadost (Asia Pacific Network of Refugees); Fiona Whiteridge (Refugee and Migrant Services, Immigration New Zealand); and Chair: Tristan Harley (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law).
Recording from the opening panel event at the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference, 'Turning points: New directions in refugee protection' held on 15 November 2022.How has COVID-19 transformed access to protection, assistance and the lives of those already living in precarious situations – for better and for worse?Join Adrian Edwards (UNHCR Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific); Roshni Shanker (Migration and Asylum Project); Gillian Triggs (UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection); Pascal Zigashane (Action pour le Progrés); and Chair: Daniel Ghezelbash (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law)
Kaldor Centre Director, Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO, delivers the opening keynote address entitled, 'Turning points in international protection: onwards and upwards, or u-turns and roundabouts?' at the 2022 Kaldor Centre Conference held on 15 November 2022 and reflects on the major disruptive events we have faced in recent times, and their implications for the future of refugee protection.
Students who have experienced displacement share their experience of university life and tips on how others can show support and solidarity. This free Diversity Fest 2022 event at UNSW Sydney was hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law on 27 October 2022.
Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) Centre Director, Sarah Dale, and Kaldor Centre Deputy Director, Daniel Ghezelbash, in a conversation about the issues currently facing refugees in Australia. This is a recording of a seminar held on World Refugee Day 20 June 2022.
A livestream panel event held on 24 May 2022 in the wake of the Australian federal election. Author and journalist David Marr leads a discussion about Australia’s refugee policy, with Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam AO, After the Tampa author Abbas Nazari, and Guardian Australia journalist Ben Doherty.
As war rages in Ukraine, Europe and other countries are taking unusually quick action to support the millions of civilians fleeing their now-threatened homes. UNSW Kaldor Centre Honorary Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill has been a leading voice on refugee issues since the first edition of his book, 'The Refugee in International Law', now in its Fourth Edition, co-authored by Jane McAdam with Emma Dunlop. Here, he explains what is working for Ukraine’s refugees and why.
A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021 key panel session held on 20 October 2021. What do we know, how do we know it, and what more do we need to know to inform policies on climate change, disasters and mobility? When the issues are as contested as climate and migration, a key challenge is simply agreeing on transparent, credible, actionable data. Hear from Vicente Anzellini, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre; Tautala Mauala, Samoan Red Cross; Andrea Milan, International Organization for Migration; Kira Vinke, Center for Climate and Foreign Policy; and chaired by Sanjula Weerasinghe, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law affiliate member.
A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021 key panel session held on 21 October 2021. Sometimes the impacts of disasters and climate change mean that whole areas may become unsafe to live in. Communities may be faced with the prospect of relocation. But who decides – to move at all, and if so, where? Planned relocations traverse a complicated cultural, legal and land title landscape. What does a ‘successful’ planned relocation look like? Hear from Erica Bower, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law; Daniel Fitzpatrick, Faculty of Law, Monash University; Salote Soqo, Climate Justice & Crisis Response, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; Merewalesi Yee, University of Queensland; and chaired by Elizabeth Ferris, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference key panel session held on 19 October 2021. When people are on the move from the impacts of disasters or climate change, how does the law help or hinder them? Is refugee law useful? Human rights law? Migration law? What about regional free movement agreements? How is individual agency enhanced or eroded by legal frameworks? What about people who move but don’t cross an international border, and what about people who can’t move at all? Our experts will reflect on how these questions are answered across different times and places. Hear from Bruce Burson, New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal; Lucy Daxbacher, Head of Mission to Uganda, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD); Walter Kälin, Envoy of the Chair, Platform on Disaster Displacement; Caroline Zickgraf, Deputy Director, The Hugo Observatory; and chaired by Tamara Wood, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
This event was held on 9 November 2021, to launch the fourth edition of 'The Refugee in International Law', by Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam(together with Emma Dunlop). In this podcast, Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Emma Dunlop discuss the practice of refugee law today, in a discussion with Arif Hussein of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS).
How is refugee status determined around the world amid changing social pressures? What are the trends in protection in different jurisdictions? What legal questions arise when restrictive policies mean that access to asylum is blocked, rights are curtailed, and people cannot access fair status determination procedures?
This opening panel at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2021: 'Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change', was held on Tuesday 19 October, 2021. In this panel, experts set out the key questions and principles that should guide responses to mobility in the face of climate change. Hear from Rabab Fatima, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Nations; Andrew Harper, Special Advisor on Climate Action to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Frances Namoumou, Pacific Conference of Churches; Nicole Shepardson, US Department of State and Chair Jane McAdam AO, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in this crucial discussion.
A Kaldor Centre Conference 2021: 'Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change', panel session held on 20 October 2021 AEDT. People fleeing disasters and the impacts of climate change often enter an unmapped legal landscape. Faced with legal gaps or overlaps, courts today are considering how laws may be shaped to unprecedented circumstances. Different jurisdictions are deciding differently – and some outcomes are forcing leaders to propose more creative new solutions. Hear from Robin Bronen, Alaska Institute for Justice; Ama Francis, International Refugee Assistance Project; Adam McBeth, Victorian Bar; Solomon Yeo, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change; chaired by llona Millar, Baker McKenzie.
A vital, virtual discussion about the principles and practice of academic research, led by emerging scholars with lived experience of displacement.
This panel event was hosted by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and the Forced Migration Research Network at UNSW, and UNHCR’s Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network, on 7 October 2021.
Introduced by GAIN Chair Professor Geoff Gilbert, and moderated by the Kaldor Centre’s Dr Tamara Wood, early-career thought leaders came together to discuss ways to overcome structural barriers to education and research dissemination, and career pathways for refugees in academia.
A Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference closing panel session held on 21 October 2021. 'How can we build support for people at risk of climate and disaster displacement, at COP26 and beyond?' Speakers: Nisreen Elsaim, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change; Alex Randall, Climate and Migration Coalition; Koko Warner, UN Climate Change (UNFCCC); and Martijn Wilder, Pollination Group; chaired by Linh Do, Head of Campaign Networks, Climate Catalyst.
This is the first of two launch events to celebrate the release of the fourth edition of 'The Refugee in International Law' by the Kaldor Centre's Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam (together with Emma Dunlop).
On 29 September 2021, authors Guy S Goodwin-Gill and Jane McAdam AO reflected on the many issues confronting the global protection regime at this moment, in a conversation with Guardian Australia’s Ben Doherty, chaired by Kaldor Centre Advisory Committee member, Shukufa Tahiri.
The Kaldor Centre's Lauren Martin talks to co-authors and Kaldor Centre affiliates, Erica Bower and Sanjula Weerasinghe about their latest report 'Leaving Place Restoring Home: Enhancing the Evidence Base on Planned Relocation Cases in the context of Hazards, Disasters, and Climate Change'.
As hazards, disasters and climate change profoundly affect people’s lives and livelihoods, communities and authorities seek opportunities to move people permanently out of harm’s way. Planned relocation is generally considered as a measure of last resort. In this context, policymakers, practitioners and communities require refined information on how planned relocation could be undertaken to minimize negative impacts, avoid pitfalls and promote human rights and human dignity.
Australia’s multi-billion-dollar offshore processing system has demonstrably failed to stop boats, save lives or break the business model of people smugglers, according to a new policy brief from UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. Released at a pivotal moment when the policy is drawing political interest elsewhere as an ‘Australian model’, ‘Cruel, costly and ineffective: the failure of offshore processing in Australia’ marks nine years since Australia resumed its bipartisan policy of intercepting asylum seekers at sea and forcibly transferring them to the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
For the first time, Kaldor Centre researchers Madeline Gleeson and Natasha Yacoub break down the common perception of offshore processing as a single policy, explaining how instead it has unfolded in four distinct phases since August 2012. Critically, they note that Australia has been caught up in the fourth and final phase – in which the government stopped transferring people offshore and has been trying to extricate itself from the arrangements – for more than seven years now.
Read the policy brief: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Policy_Brief_11_Offshore_Processing.pdf
Think through the big issues in global displacement in the decade ahead with our panel of experts. A virtual panel session held on 17 November 2020 at the Kaldor Centre Conference 2020. Louise Aubin (UNHCR) Rez Gardi (Harvard Satter Human Rights Fellow) Cecilia Jimenez-Damary (UN Special Rapporteur, Human Rights of IDPs)Kathleen Newland (Migration Policy Institute) Chair: Jane McAdam (Kaldor Centre)
Australian lawyers reflect from the frontlines on the effectiveness and potential of strategic refugee litigation in this virtual panel session held at the Kaldor Centre Conference 2020 on 19 November 2020. Hear from our expert panel: Matthew Albert (Dever's List, Castan Chambers) Scott Cosgriff (Human Rights Law Centre) Arif Hussein (Refugee Advice and Casework Service) Sanmati Verma (Clothier Anderson Immigration Lawyers) Chair: Sangeetha Pillai (Kaldor Centre)
How do racism and displacement intersect, and is the protection regime part of the problem or the solution? Hear E Tendayi Achiume (UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia & Related Intolerance)and Nyadol Nyuon(Lawyer, community advocate and writer)in conversation at the closing session of the Kaldor Centre Conference 2020, held on 20 November 2020. Hosted by Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Kaldor Centre Director.
Join experts from around the globe to discuss emerging and future regional challenges to refugee protection. This panel session was recorded on 18 November at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2020.
Panel featuring: Maria Bances del Rey (UNHCR Americas Bureau), Cathryn Costello (Hertie School), Oroub El-Abed (Centre for Lebanese Studies), Ottilia Anna Maunganidze (Institute for Security Studies), Vitit Muntarbhorn (Chulalongkorn University), Chair: Madeline Gleeson (Kaldor Centre)
Go beyond the buzzwords to explore the promise and pitfalls of technology for refugee protection. This panel discussion was recorded on 18 November at the Kaldor Centre Virtual Conference 2020.
Panel featuring: Tey El-Rjula (Author and tech entrepreneur, Fleur Johns (UNSW Sydney, Law & Justice), Petra Molnar (Refugee Law Laboratory)and Roya Pakzad (Taraaz)and chaired by Daniel Howden (Lighthouse Reports).
Hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford); Centre for Fundamental Rights (Hertie School, Berlin); Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (University of Melbourne), and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (UNSW Sydney), 'The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law' is a groundbreaking new book which critiques the status quo in international refugee law and sets the agenda for future research.
Professor Hilary Charlesworth launched the book on 25 May 2021 and engaged in a lively discussion with the three editors, Professors Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam. The event was chaired by refugee advocate and lawyer Nyadol Nyuon.
We invite you to join us to find out what the 'Handbook' tells us about the situation for refugees today, and how international protection is – or isn’t – working at a time when mobility is curtailed for so many. A 65-chapter reference work involving 78 authors, including 48 women, the 'Handbook' is global in scope, with 10 chapters focusing in detail on specific regions, including Africa, Latin America, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East.
The pandemic put us all in limbo. For the first time, many Australians understood what it means to be stranded, unable to cross borders, separated from the people you love. When our government said we were ‘all in this together’ – what happened to the refugees in 'Temporary'? And what’s ahead for them? Sisonke Msimang interviews Sarah Dale, Director of RACS (Refugee Advice & Casework Service) to find out, in our final episode.
This panel problematises and critiques the notion of ‘displacement’ in the context of disasters and climate change. While the threat posed by climate change is real, its manifestations are not as straightforward as we might think. For instance, the idea that rising sea levels will displace millions of people and create ‘climate refugees’ is a popular trope, but it has little evidential grounding. Within the Pacific, multiple and diverse types of mobility, as well as immobility, have been used as coping strategies over centuries. This panel explores how a more nuanced understanding of displacement in the context of disasters and climate change, and its relationship to international protection, can open up possibilities for different kinds of durable solutions.
The Kaldor Centre hosted the Asia-Pacific component of a global conference held on 21 January 2021 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The conference was a partnership between UNHCR and the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN), established under the 2018 Global Compact on Refugees.
Kaldor Centre Senior Research Associate Dr Sangeetha Pillai speaks with ABC Radio Darwin presenter Liz Trevaskis about the refugees that have spent a year in hotel detention in Darwin while awaiting medical treatment. Originally aired 3 February 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/darwin/programs/drive/drive/13097212
In part 7 of Temporary, we meet Hani. Back in 2013, with Operation Sovereign Borders, the Australian government launched an outright war on asylum seekers, condemning 30,000 people seeking safety to mandatory detention and temporary protection, leaving thousands of people like Hani, a young poet from Somalia, caught in the middle. Years after the harsh deterrence policies were implemented, we ask: have they actually worked? Produced with UNSW Centre for Ideas and Guardian Australia, hosted by Sisonke Msimang. Visit the full 'Temporary' project at temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
One family. All devout pacifists, they all fled the same dangers and all of them are recognised refugees in Australia. The mother and children were resettled from overseas and now have permanent protection. But their father arrived by boat. He lives in anxious uncertainty, enduring an opaque reapplication process that could result in his being torn away from them. Produced with UNSW Centre for Ideas and Guardian Australia, hosted by Sisonke Msimang. Visit the full 'Temporary' project at temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
The average time asylum seekers spend in Australian immigration detention is 564 days. Some people have been held for more than a decade. Kumar shares his story of indefinite detention, locked up for years without committing a crime. Produced with UNSW Centre for Ideas and Guardian Australia, hosted by Sisonke Msimang. Visit the full 'Temporary' project at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
Listen to Arman share with host Sisonke Msimang how he came to understand that, when you're seeking asylum in Australia, there are no safety nets. Visit the full 'Temporary' project at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) Senior Solicitor Isobel McGarity explains enhanced screening, a 'cloaked, secretive' process that puts people at immediate risk of deportation. Part of a series of audio explainers accompanying our series 'Temporary', at temporary.kaldorcentre.net
In 2014, the Australian government cut funds for legal assistance to asylum seekers who had arrived by boat, abolishing help that had been in place for decades. RACS's Sarah Dale explains the importance of legal support, the impact of those funding cuts, and how it all played out when suddenly, in 2017, all 'legacy caseload' asylum-seekers were given a short and strict deadline to lodge an application. Visit the full 'Temporary' storytelling hub at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
When Elaheh suddenly has to flee Iran, where 'everything is dangerous', she didn't realise she might never see her family again. She’s now a recognised refugee in Australia with an Aussie twang, but because she came by boat, the rules of her visa are not straightforward here, either. Its restrictions dictate whether her son, born in Adelaide, can ever meet the strong women who raised his resilient mother. Visit the full 'Temporary' project at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
In quick audio explainers, legal experts break down the policies that entangle the people in our ‘Temporary’ series. Here, RACS Centre Director Sarah Dale steps through the challenges for all the minors who applied for protection as part of the legacy caseload.
Visit the 'Temporary' storytelling hub at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
In quick audio explainers, legal experts break down the policies that entangle the people in our ‘Temporary’ series. Here, Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam answers some FAQ about refugees and Australia’s legacy caseload.
Visit the full 'Temporary' project at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
Why would a boy leave everyone and everything he'd ever known to run for protection? And what if, when he did, he ran right into a different political wall? Find out how Zaki negotiated hunger, the Sydney property market and a visa that wouldn’t let him work or study in Australia, to become an award-winning student, full-time worker and community ambassador who still isn’t allowed to call himself Australian.
Who are the Temporary people – and how did Australia trap them in such endless uncertainty? Meet Zaki, who fled a Taliban death warrant when he was a teenager and arrived in Australia labelled an ‘illegal maritime arrival’, in the first episode of Temporary – a narrative podcast from UNSW Sydney and Guardian Australia.
Visit the 'Temporary' storytelling hub at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
The stories of people seeking asylum are supposed to end. But in Australia, people who arrive by boat are seldom able to finish their story. This new eight-part narrative podcast reveals the stories of refugees trapped in a cycle of uncertainty. They tell their stories in Temporary, a new narrative podcast from UNSW, in partnership with Guardian Australia.
Episode one and two released on the 26th of November.
Visit the 'Temporary' storytelling hub at https://temporary.kaldorcentre.net/
Kaldor Centre's Director, Professor Jane McAdam, and Director of the Lowy Institute's Pacific Islands Program, Jonathan Pryke, discuss their latest policy brief with Lauren Martin. Their report focuses on the role of mobility as a release valve for Pacific Islanders at risk of displacement in the context of disasters and climate change. It demonstrates why Australia should proactively develop laws and policies that enable people in the Pacific region to move out of harm’s way, thereby harnessing migration as a climate change adaptation strategy in its own right.
You can read the full policy brief at: www.kaldorcentre@unsw.edu.au/publications/policy-brief-series
Resettlement is a life-saving tool. It is a way that countries, like Australia, help refugees and their families to find safety. Now resettlement is under unprecedented pressure, what history is in the making for refugees in this current crisis?
Find out from our expert panel, Kate O'Malley (UNHCR Canberra), Sally Pfeiffer (Department of Home Affairs), Paul Power (Refugee Council of Australia) and Melika Yassin Sheikh-Eldin (AMES Australia), in a conversation moderated by Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam.
As the world comes to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic, crowded boats in the Bay of Bengal are once more forcing the region to confront the plight of Rohingya refugees seeking safety by sea.
This is a recording of a webinar held on 4 June 2020, co-hosted by the International Law Association (Australia) and the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
What is changing in the so-called ‘new normal’, and what does it mean for the legal landscape facing refugees, people seeking asylum and other forced migrants?
Find out when two preeminent legal minds discuss the key issues: Scientia Professor Jane McAdam, Director of UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, addresses the differential impact of the pandemic on displaced people and also considers the twin ‘crises’ of COVID-19 and climate change in the context of mobility in the Pacific region.
Assistant Secretary-General Gillian Triggs, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, considers how COVID-19 has undermined the fundamental norms of human rights and refugee law as almost no other crisis has done, even as we reach the 70th anniversary of the Refugee Convention.
The everyday lives of Australians have changed dramatically, as we try to protect each other from coronavirus. But while the message is that we are ‘all in this together’, the policy responses to this pandemic are playing out with specific, and often severe, consequences for the tens of thousands of people here on precarious visas.
This is a recording of a Kaldor Centre webinar held on 14 May 2020, which explored the impact of COVID-19 on refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia.
The discussion was moderated by Professor Jane McAdam, Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She was joined by:
Sarah Dale, Centre Director and Principal Solicitor at the Refugee Advice and Casework Service
Frances Rush OAM, Chief Executive Officer at the Asylum Seekers Centre
Shukufa Tahiri, Policy Officer at the Refugee Council of Australia, and a Steering Committee member of the National Refugee-led Advisory and Advocacy Group
For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039
For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039
For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039
For more information on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2019 ‘Good decisions: Achieving fairness in refugee law, policy and practice’: https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/2039
Senior Research Fellow Dr Claire Higgins from UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law takes and an in-depth look at one form of complementary pathways: protected entry. In this podcast, Dr Higgins examines the evidence of how, when and why protected-entry procedures work, drawing lessons from around the world.
UNSW Chancellor, David Gonski AC, launches the Kaldor Centre Principles for Australian Refugee Policy - a new, evidence-based framework for a principled and pragmatic refugee policy, presented by Professor Jane McAdam.
Recorded 13 February 2019
Saudi teen Rahaf al Qunun captured world attention when she barricaded herself in a Bangkok hotel room and claimed asylum. Within days, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) had determined she was a refugee and Canada rapidly offered to resettle her.
Between 2015 and 2017, Australia resettled a ‘special intake’ of 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees. This was a different, but no less important, emergency resettlement response to pressing humanitarian needs.
Both these cases show how countries can help refugees in urgent need of protection, thereby demonstrating international solidarity and responsibility-sharing.
But how, why and when do governments decide to offer resettlement – and to whom?
Join our expert panel discussion to find out more. - Sophie McNeill, the ABC journalist who interviewed Rahaf al Qunun in her hotel room and just days after her arrival in Canada - Khanh Hoang, a UNHCR Senior Protection Assistant with unique insights into how resettlement options work - Dr Claire Higgins, a Senior Research Associate at the Kaldor Centre, with expertise on Australia’s special humanitarian intake process
For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779
For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779
For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779
For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779
For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779
He came to Canada at 16, a Somali seeking asylum, and now Ahmed Hussen is the country’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. On 31 August 2018, this lawyer, refugee and national leader spoke at UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, sharing his singular insights into Canada’s efforts to successfully integrate new citizens.
Evidence matters. Yet even before “fake news” became a political weapon, it’s been notoriously difficult to get evidence into the policymaking process. How can we keep good evidence from being overwhelmed by bad politics?
In this conversation, moderated by ABC Radio National journalist Eleanor Hall, three world-renowned experts talk about their experience from the front lines of research and policymaking in contentious areas – climate change, refugees and, where the two meet, climate change- and disaster-related displacement.
Professor John Church is Australia’s most credentialled expert on sea-level rise and a long-time research scientist with the government CSIRO. He joined UNSW in 2016 as a professor in the Climate Change Research Centre, so he’s seen Australia’s approach to science and international obligations from inside and outside government.
UNSW Scientia Professor and Kaldor Centre Director Jane McAdam is a pioneer in research on climate change- and disaster-related displacement, advising governments and international organisations including UNHCR. In 2017, her work in this field was described as 'transformative' by the jury of the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Human Rights, which she was the first Australian to win.
Walter Kälin has extensive international experience as scholar and policymaker, most recently serving as Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (and formerly of its predecessor, the Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement), providing strategic advice and leadership to this state-led process working towards better protection for people in the context of disasters and climate change. Professor Emeritus for international and constitutional law at the University of Bern (Switzerland), he has served the United Nations in various capacities, including as Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and twice as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee.
Ordinary citizens around the world are coming together to sponsor refugees, an experience that can transform individual lives and strengthen communities. As Australia is now shaping its own refugee private sponsorship initiative, it’s a critical time to learn from international best practice.
Dr Russell Rook, a leading international expert, shares his experience in developing the UK’s community-led model of refugee sponsorship, which gives charities, faith groups, churches and businesses the opportunity to support and resettle refugees.
He is joined by Khanh Hoang from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, and Shankar Kasynathan from Amnesty International Australia, to explore the history and future of community refugee sponsorship in Australia.
This event was held on the 26 July 2018 and was co-hosted by the Australian National University, the Community Refugee Sponsorship Initiative and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
Compassion and strong borders are not mutually exclusive, Scientia PhD scholar and Kaldor Centre affiliate Regina Jefferies told FBi Radio’s Backchat program on Saturday, 23 June. Listen to the interview, which canvasses the logic of deterrence policies and the facts around refugee policies in both the United States and Australia.
Ai Weiwei’s Law of the Journey, 2017, an imposing installation featuring a 60-metre-long boat crowded with hundreds of anonymous refugee figures, provokes this frank discussion of Australia’s response to asylum seekers arriving by boat – and today’s approach to refugees globally.
What is the relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention when more people have been forced to flee their homes now than at any time since the World War? How does international law influence domestic politics around the world? What are the repercussions of Australia’s bipartisan policy of offshore processing on Manus and Nauru, and is the country prepared to deal with current crises, such as the Rohingya exodus from Myanmar, or future pressures of people displaced by climate change?
International legal expert Guy Goodwin-Gill of UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law; lawyer and prize-winning Offshore author Madeline Gleeson; and award-winning Guardian journalist Ben Doherty talk law, policy, politics and solutions. The panel was moderated by Elaine Pearson, Australia Director, Human Rights Watch.
Presented by the Biennale of Sydney and UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
“If you were still a legal adviser to a country … would you recommend your government sign the Global Compact for Refugees as currently is drafted?” asks Alex Aleinikoff, Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, of the Kaldor Centre’s Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Hear the answer in this discussion about the historical promise of the refugee protection system, where it has fallen down, and whether the Global Compact is fit for purpose.
Is Australia responsible for asylum seekers sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island? Questions of liability – civil, criminal and political – are at the heart of this podcast conversation between the Kaldor Centre’s acting Director, Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, and Alex Aleinikoff, the Director of The New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility in New York.
Policy Brief 6: Making the Global Compacts Work: What future for refugees and migrants? by UNSW Kaldor Centre
On the 17 April 2018, UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law co-hosted with Macquarie University Law School and the Australian Institute for International Affairs NSW the event entitled 'Refugee Deterrence and Diplomacy: How states influence each other's asylum policies'.
As global displacement reaches its highest recorded levels, many governments around the world are seeking not to welcome but to deter asylum seekers. Policies such as detention, extraterritorial processing and turning back boats seem to be spreading globally, changing to suit their new environment and often becoming more virulent. But are they new? And how do these policies spread? This panel discussion examined how scattered policymakers transfer asylum policies.
'Global policy shopping and bad diaspora practices' Associate Professor Alan Gamlen, Associate Professor of Human Geography, School of Social Sciences, Monash University Kaldor Centre Conference 2017 - The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration 24 November 2017
This podcast was recorded at the Kaldor Centre Conference 'The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration', 24 November 2017.
Panellists were:
- David Wilden, First Assistant Secretary, Immigration and Citizenship Policy Division, Department of Immigration and Border Protection
- Jamie Isbister, First Assistant Secretary, Humanitarian Coordinator, Humanitarian NGOs and Partnerships Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Thomas Albrecht, Regional Representative for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Rifaie Tammas, Refugee and PhD candidate, Macquarie University
- Dr Madeline Garlick, Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section, Division of International Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Chaired by Professor Elizabeth Ferris, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University
'Negotiating two new Global Compacts. Processes, politics and problems' Ambassador David Donoghue, Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations Closing Keynote Address, Kaldor Centre Conference, 24 November 2017
'UN Global Compact on Migration: Preventing migrant smuggling and human trafficking' Fiona David, Executive Director of Global Research, Walk Free Foundation Kaldor Centre Conference 2017 - The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration 24 November 2017
'Governance without purpose? Grounding, measuring and influencing State performance on migration' Professor Alexander Betts, Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs and Director, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Kaldor Centre Conference 2017 - The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration 24 November 2017
'Refugee women and girls in the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework' Dr Linda Bartolomei and Associate Professor Eileen Pittaway, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney Kaldor Centre Conference 2017 - The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration 24 November 2017
'Can UNHCR provide a "shared responsibility" in countries of origin?', Kaldor Centre Conference, 24 November 2017 Dr Phil Orchard, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland
'Seeking new ways forward: the politics, process and potential of the Global Compacts', Kaldor Centre Conference, 24 November 2017 Dr Madeline Garlick, Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section, Division of International Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Professor Elizabeth Ferris from the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University delivered the opening keynote address at the Kaldor Centre Conference 2017. The presentation title was 'Negotiating two new Global Compacts. Processes, politics and problems'.
In his opening address to the Kaldor Centre Conference 2017, Acting Director Guy S Goodwin-Gill's year in review surveys history to remind us that providing protection and finding solutions for refugees is a perpetual struggle.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is actively involved in international talks to develop the two Global Compacts, one for refugees and one on migration. As the Department's Head of Humanitarian, NGOs and Partnerships Division, Jamie Isbister is leading DFAT’s work toward the Global Compacts, advocating for Australia’s perspectives on better addressing refugee and displacement crises. He talks about the process and possible outcomes.
How has Australia moved from a humanitarian approach to asylum seekers – and is there a way back?
How is public opinion influenced by the actions and attitudes of politicians and the media?
What impact can international law and the legal profession have?
On 2 November, UNSW Law Alumni’s Look who’s talking series presented a fascinating discussion with:
Historian and Asylum By Boat author Dr Claire Higgins; Guardian Australia journalist Ben Doherty; Scholar, barrister and Kaldor Centre Acting Director Prof. Guy S Goodwin-Gill; and Wotton + Kearney Partner Heidi Nash-Smith
Moderator: Dean of UNSW Law Professor George Williams AO
As leaders around the world balance populist pressure against an unprecedented number of refugees, our panel takes a closer look at the history of Australia’s asylum policy, and how it has been shaped by governments, law, and ever-changing public opinion.
Our panel of experts explored what is needed for Australia to return to a humanitarian approach, and what impact the legal profession can have on improving policy and protecting the rights of asylum seekers.
A government under intense pressure from unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers arriving by boat, its radical policy attracting global attention; this might sound like contemporary Australia.
It is in fact the Australian government of 40 years ago, facing the wave of boat people from Vietnam.
Senior research associate at the Kaldor Centre, Dr Claire Higgins, speaks to The World Today about her book 'Asylum By Boat: the Origins of Australia's Refugee Policy'.
Kaldor Centre's Senior Research Associate Madeline Gleeson speaks with Clare Wright from ABC Radio National
11 April 2017, the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law hosted a seminar by David FitzGerald of the University of California, San Diego entitled 'Remote Control of Asylum Seekers: The US Experience'.
More information available: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/remote-control-asylum-seekers-us-experience-0
Hosted by the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW and Macquarie University
The movement of asylum seekers and migrants by boat has seized attention across the world. In Australia and elsewhere, governments have enacted policies to intercept and turn back asylum seekers at sea. What do we know (and not know) about these policies, and what are the legal and practical implications of turning back boats? This panel will discuss the law, policy and practice of turning back boats in Europe, the United States and Australia.
Speakers: Dr Daniel Ghezelbash, Macquarie Law School Rear Admiral James Goldrick AO, CSC RAN (Retired) Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Frances Voon, Executive Manager, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
The event was chaired by Professor Natalie Klein, Dean, Macquarie Law School.
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Closing keynote address Professor François Crépeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
Chaired by Andrew Kaldor AM, Founder, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 3 - How do law and policy shape refugees' experience of time? Sarah Dale, Principal Solicitor, Refugee Advice & Casework Service Professor Ben Saul, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney Shukufa Tahiri, Policy Assistant, Refugee Council of Australia
Chaired by Professor Jane McAdam, Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSWRefugee Research, UNSW
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 2 - Creeping Crises: From emergency to development 'A crisis of political imaginary: Categorising mobile populations and the ambivalence of a categorised life' Associate Professor Claudia Tazreiter, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW
Chaired by Dr Eileen Pittaway, founding Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, UNSW
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 2 - Creeping Crises: From emergency to development 'The notion of "crisis": Do we need to rethink the links between mobility, development and inequality?' Professor Stephen Castles, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Chaired by Dr Eileen Pittaway, founding Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, UNSW
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 2 - Creeping Crises: From emergency to development 'Minding the humanitarian–development gap in refugee response: Where do we stand?' Frances Voon, Executive Manager, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
Chaired by Dr Eileen Pittaway, founding Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, UNSW
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 1 - Time and refugee status determination 'Pathways to refugee trauma recovery: what does the psychological and neurobiological research tell us?' Professor Richard Bryant & Dr Belinda Liddell, School of Psychology, UNSW
Chaired by Farid Varess, Special Counsel, Fragomen
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 1 - Time and refugee status determination Time and the assessment of risk in refugee status determination Bruce Burson, New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal
Chaired by Farid Varess, Special Counsel, Fragomen
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Panel 1 - Time and refugee status determination ‘It’s about time’: The role of time in protection status determination procedures under the Migration Act Linda Kirk, Migration Law Program, Australian National University
Chaired by Farid Varess, Special Counsel, Fragomen
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
For more: www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save…conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
Opening keynote address Jean-François Durieux, former Director at UNHCR Geneva
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference 2016
FROM REFUGEE EMERGENCY TO PROTRACTED EXILE: THE ROLE OF 'TIME' IN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
18 November 2016
The year in review Professor Jane McAdam, Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
For more: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/save-date-annual-conference
A presentation by Professor Geoff Gilbert, University of Essex 31 August 2016
Last year, roughly 24 people were displaced each minute. Yet, the average length of time spent as a displaced person is now 20 years.
These stark facts highlight the need to rethink the nature of solutions to displacement, beyond the traditional three durable solutions of voluntary repatriation, resettlement and local integration.
In this presentation, Professor Geoff Gilbert argues that the UN’s responses to refugees must be reconsidered. He suggests that solutions to displacement should be seen as a process, and that the UN should move away from the traditional dichotomies of ‘protection versus solutions’ and ‘humanitarian versus development’ assistance.
Professor Gilbert considers whether the UN’s Rule of Law approach might provide the basis for greater ‘interoperability’ (coordinated interaction) between the various UN agencies, thus achieving more effective solutions to displacement.
On the 7 and 8 June 2016, King & Wood Mallesons and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee law at UNSW co-hosted panel discussions in both Sydney and Melbourne titled ‘the Displacement Project: Perspectives on climate change and displacement’. Both events brought together a multi-disciplinary panel of speakers who each offered a unique insight into the human impact of climate change. This podcast was recorded at the Sydney event.
For more information: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/displacement-project-perspectives-climate-change-and-displacement-panel-discussion
28 June 2016, the Kaldor Centre hosted a conversation with Dr Jeff Crisp and Professor Jane McAdam on the implications of this year’s international summits to address global displacement.
With the largest numbers of people displaced than at any time since the Second World War, the international community is struggling with the question of how best to respond. This year, a series of global talks has been convened to tackle this intractable question. They included the recent World Humanitarian Summit held in Istanbul in May, and the upcoming Summit on Refugees and Migrants convened by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, on 19 September. In this seminar, Dr Jeff Crisp and Professor Jane McAdam discussed the key issues at play, what has been achieved by these global talks to date, and the prospects of success for the September summit.
On 18 May 2016, Kaldor Centre Research Associate Madeline Gleeson presented her new book 'Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru. UNSW Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs and Law Faculty Dean David Dixon opened the event.
For more information: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/unsw-vice-chancellor-ian-jacobs-and-madeline-gleeson-present-offshore-behind-wire-manus-and
Madeline Gleeson’s new book 'Offshore: Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru', was launched on 9 May 2016 by Julian Burnside AO QC, an esteemed barrister and refugee advocate. For more information, see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/offshore-behind-wire-manus-and-nauru-book-launch
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. See more at: https://exit.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au%2Fnews%2Fcelebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. For more see: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
On 14 and 15 April 2016, the Kaldor Centre was proud to co-host a symposium at All Souls College, Oxford to celebrate the scholarship of Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill. Professor Goodwin-Gill is a member of the Kaldor Centre’s Advisory Committee, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, and Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford University. He has been an intellectual pioneer in identifying, mapping and shaping the sub-discipline of international refugee law.
The symposium brought together leading international refugee law scholars and practitioners. See more at: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/news/celebrating-scholarship-professor-guy-s-goodwin-gill
21 March 2016 - The Kaldor Centre hosted a lunchtime seminar to discuss the social and legal situations of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia. Guest speakers Nikolas Feith Tan and Antje Missbach discussed the lack of effective protection and the day-to-day handling of asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia. They looked specifically at the case study of the Rohingya, who have been treated quite differently compared to other asylum seekers and refugees in Indonesia.
See more at: http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/event/being-refugee-indonesia
How can we foster support for refugee inclusion and create welcoming environments in which refugees - and whole communities - can thrive?
David Lubell is leading a movement of inclusive communities across America, through his groundbreaking work at the award winning NGO, Welcoming America.
In a presentation at the Kaldor Centre on the 14 March 2016, David shared his in-depth experience and expertise in immigrant and refugee integration, and discussed ways to increase local support for immigrants and refugees. His experience shows how inclusive communities can become more prosperous through making people feel like they belong.
David also discussed a new initiative in Australia called Welcoming Cities, which is being launched by the Scanlon Foundation and Welcome to Australia, in partnership with Welcoming America. Welcoming Cities is a new national program that will link local government leaders with the frameworks, resources, and organisations they need to create and strengthen inclusive communities across Australia.
9 March 2016 - Panel discussion on International Law and Sea-Level Rise: Human Rights, Displacement, Maritime Zones and Biodiversity.
The panel of expert speakers include: Associate Professor Stephen Humphreys, LSE: international human rights law; Professor Jane McAdam, UNSW: international law and forced migration; and, Professor Rosemary Rayfuse, UNSW: international environmental law and law of the sea
Chaired by Frances Voon, Executive Manager of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
This event is co-sponsored by the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, the International Law Association (Australian Branch), and the UNSW Environmental Law Group.
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference
PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law
20 November 2015
Session 3: Q&A panel: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region Chaired by Frances Voon, Kaldor Centre Executive Manager
Rafendi Djamin, Representative of Indonesia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
Deepa Nambiar, Asylum Access Malaysia
Professor Supang Chantanavich, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference
PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law
20 November 2015
Session 2: International comparisons Chaired by Andrew Kaldor AM, Kaldor Centre Founder
Comparative regional frameworks - Professor Kate Jastram, Executive Director, Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Berkeley Law, University of California
Detention of asylum seekers and the Israeli High Court of Justice: The absent–present 1951 Refugee Convention - Dr Ruvi Ziegler, School of Law, University of Reading
Order out of chaos? Seeking refuge and solidarity in Europe - Emeritus Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference
PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law
20 November 2015
Session 1: Turnbacks and Offshore Processing Chaired by Julian Burnside AO QC
Turning back the boats: Australia’s interdiction of irregular migrants at sea - Professor Andreas Schloenhardt, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Refugee processing on Nauru - Rea Hearn Mackinnon, Principal Member of the Nauru Refugee Status Review Tribunal
Australia’s offshore processing regime: responsibility and rights - Madeline Gleeson, Kaldor Centre, UNSW
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference
PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law
20 November 2015
Year In Review Professor Jane McAdam, Kaldor Centre Director
Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Conference
PROTECTION ELSEWHERE, BUT WHERE? National, Regional and Global Perspectives on Refugee Law
20 November 2015
Keynote address by Ms Erika Feller
Unfortunately this recording starts 5 minutes into Ms Feller's presentation.
14 September 2015 - The Kaldor Centre convened an expert panel to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and its implications for the Middle East, Europe and Australia.
Speakers: Thomas Albrecht, UNHCR Regional Representative Dr Anthony Billingsley, UNSW School of Social Sciences Prof Jane McAdam, Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Paul Power, CEO, Refugee Council of Australia
24 July 2015 - This symposium brought together academics, legal centres and social justice organisations to review existing literature on public attitudes to refugees. Participants discussed research on public opinion, discourse and framing in relation to both refugee issues and other contentious policy areas, to generate comparative insights.
Organised by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in conjunction with the Migration Law Program (ANU) and the Centre for Refugee Research (UNSW).
Session 4: What could we do in the future?
Chair: Professor Jane McAdam, Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
Autonomy born of fear: belief formation and decision making in modern politics Peter Ellerton, Director, Critical Thinking Project, University of Queensland
24 July 2015 - This symposium brought together academics, legal centres and social justice organisations to review existing literature on public attitudes to refugees. Participants discussed research on public opinion, discourse and framing in relation to both refugee issues and other contentious policy areas, to generate comparative insights.
Organised by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in conjunction with the Migration Law Program (ANU) and the Centre for Refugee Research (UNSW).
Session 3: What have others learnt?
Chair: Andrew Kaldor AM, Chair of the Advisory Committee, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
The role of research in the ‘Your Rights at Work’ campaign Andrew Bunn, Research Director, Essential Media
Campaigning for marriage equality Rodney Croome, Director of Australian Marriage Equality
24 July 2015 - This symposium brought together academics, legal centres and social justice organisations to review existing literature on public attitudes to refugees. Participants discussed research on public opinion, discourse and framing in relation to both refugee issues and other contentious policy areas, to generate comparative insights.
Organised by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in conjunction with the Migration Law Program (ANU) and the Centre for Refugee Research (UNSW).
Session 2: What are we learning?
Chair: Marianne Dickie, Director of the Migration Law Program, ANU
Common Cause: why values matter Mark Chenery, Co-founder of Common Cause Australia
The refugee story: steps to a progressive narrative Alex Frankel, Director, Frankly Research and Communications
Discussion session about experiences within the sector - beginning with a short presentation by Chantelle Ogilvie-Ellis, Community Organiser: Asylum Seekers, Sydney Alliance
24 July 2015 - This symposium brought together academics, legal centres and social justice organisations to review existing literature on public attitudes to refugees. Participants discussed research on public opinion, discourse and framing in relation to both refugee issues and other contentious policy areas, to generate comparative insights.
Organised by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law in conjunction with the Migration Law Program (ANU) and the Centre for Refugee Research (UNSW).
Session 1: What do we know about international, national and regional attitudes to refugees and asylum seekers?
Chair: Harriet McHugh-Dillon, author of the 2015 Foundation House review ‘If they are genuine refugees, why? Public attitudes to unauthorised arrivals in Australia’
Attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees: Some international reflections Dr Lisa Hartley, Lecturer, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University
International media representation of Australia’s refugee and asylum policy Hannah Laney and Anthony Kellett, Bachelor of Social Research and Policy students, UNSW
Exploring Australian attitudes to refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants Professor Andrew Markus, Pratt Foundation Research Professor of Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
Representations of asylum seekers in the regional Australian press Sam Cooper, Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Social Science student, UNSW Erin Olejniczak, Bachelor of Social Research and Policy student, UNSW
30 April 2015 - A public lecture by Tom Porteous, Deputy Program Director, Human Rights Watch. Mr Porteous discussed contemporary responses to the global refugee crisis and challenges to refugee protection in the current context.
4 November 2014 - The Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement aims to build consensus on the development of a protection agenda addressing the needs of people displaced across borders in the context of disasters and climate change. The Nansen Initiative’s work plan focuses on three types of movement – displacement, migration and planned relocation. The panel examined each of these kinds of movement to identify how, why and when people may move in response to disasters and the impacts of climate change, and what legal and policy frameworks are needed to support such movement.
Speakers:
Professor Walter Kälin Envoy of the Chairmanship of The Nansen Initiative and Professor of Law, University of Berne
Bruce Burson Independent expert and member of The Nansen Initiative Consultative Committee
Professor Jane McAdam Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW and member of The Nansen Initiative Consultative Committee
17 June 2015 - A panel discussion on Australian legal sector responses to changes in asylum seeker policy and funding.
This event, co-hosted with the Refugee Advice & Casework Services (RACS), provided a brief overview of some of the most significant changes affecting people seeking asylum in Australia, and a discussion of how various actors in the legal sector are responding, including through innovative approaches to advice and casework, and challenges before the courts.
The event was introduced by Renata Kaldor, AO, Refugee Week Ambassador.
Panel members: Jemma Hollonds, Senior Solicitor, Refugee Advice and Casework Service Michelle Hannon, Partner, Pro Bono Services & Corporate Responsibility, Gilbert + Tobin David Hume, Barrister, Six Wentworth Selborne Chambers
23 April 2015 - The Australian Human Rights Commission’s 'Forgotten Children' report on children in immigration detention caused considerable controversy, and offers a rare insight into life inside Australia’s detention centres. At this seminar, Jennifer Whelan and Madeline Gleeson spoke about the key findings of the report and some of the questions it raises.
Jennifer Whelan is Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law, a human rights and anti-discrimination lawyer, a project director at the Australian Human Rights Centre and a member of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
Madeline Gleeson is a Research Associate at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law.
Kaldor Centre Director, Professor Jane McAdam, and Fiona Chong’s new book 'Refugees: Why Seeking Asylum Is Legal and Australia’s Policies Are Not' (UNSW Press, 2014) was launched on 4 September 2015.
Admiral Chris Barrie AC, the former Chief of Defence in Australia at the time of the 2001 'Children Overboard' affair, spoke at the launch.
The book rejects spin and panic to provide a straightforward and balanced account of Australia’s asylum policies in light of international law. Written for a general audience, it explains who asylum seekers and refugees are, what the law is, and what policies like offshore processing, mandatory detention, and turning back boats mean in practice. Using real-life examples, this book reminds us about the human impact of Australia’s policies.
Refugees has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
22 July 2014 - An expert panel on the High Court case involving 157 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers held by an Australian customs vessel on the high seas (later handed down as CPCF v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2015] HCA 1). The case raises questions of international law, constitutional law, and administrative law, all of which were the subject of the discussion.
Panel members: Professor Jane McAdam, Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law Professor George Williams, UNSW Associate Professor Tim Stephens, University of Sydney Ed Santow, CEO, Public Interest Advocacy Centre
The event was kindly hosted by Gilbert + Tobin and chaired by partner Steven Glass.