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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

Podcast- Sexual orientation, gender Identity and asylum by Kaldor Centre UNSW

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.

Refugee Rights and Policy Wrongs Book Launch 2 July 2019 by Kaldor Centre UNSW

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 Higg

For more on the Kaldor Centre Conference 2018 'Refugee Diplomacy: Negotiating protection in a changing world': www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/node/1779