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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 gover

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 pane

“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 Kaldor Centre UNSW

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