Interview – William Maley
Prof. William Maley discusses responses to the refugee crisis, the effect of the state system on the crisis, Afghanistan’s future and his advice to young scholars.
Australia’s Asylum Politics: Localised, Globalised
If indeed global export might be a reality, human rights activists can adopt similar approaches to nation-states by working in solidarity to generate policy alternatives.
The Future of Offshore Processing
The future of the Australian offshore processing model in the Pacific is unclear. The pressing question is the future of those who require international protection.
Review – Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
An engaging book that doesn’t retreat into narrow theoretical discussions, and whose engaging narrative is enriched with fieldwork observations and real-life stories.
The Connecting Issue of Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in Southeast Asia
Abandoned by neighbors, 30,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers were left stranded in the Andaman Sea and Malacca Strait in 2015: their protection is essential
Implications of the Securitisation of Migration
The securitization of migration reinforces a politics of fear and racism.
Asylum with Human Face: Angela Merkel, Reem Sahwil and Another Video-Gone-Viral
Merkel accepts the fact that Germany must become a land of immigration and integration. The rest is up to the democratically elected lawmakers.
Drowning Migrants Is Not the Answer
Criminalization is not the answer to the movement of people across the Mediterranean. We have to recognize that it is this act of criminalization which is killing people, not the desire to migrate.
Asylum Seeker and Refugee Policy in Australia Under the Abbott Government
Although successive Australian governments have sought to ‘stop the boats’, the current government has announced controversial ‘border protection’ policies that have attracted significant criticism.
Lampedusa and the ‘Crisis’ of Migration
If the response to migration is for Europe to make its southern border even more dangerous to cross and to detain more migrants in ever more appalling decisions, then we have lurched in the wrong direction.
