{"id":1579,"date":"2018-06-20T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:24:44","slug":"australias-refugee-law-and-policy-in-a-global-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2018\/06\/20\/australias-refugee-law-and-policy-in-a-global-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s refugee law and policy in a global context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/284876138?app_id=122963\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 20th Jun 2018\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although Australia receives a disproportionately small share of the world\u2019s refugees, the \u2018problem\u2019 of unauthorized boat arrivals has been a highly controversial and political one in recent decades.\u00a0 In this Grand Round for Refugee week, Professor Michelle Foster, from the Melbourne Law School, will discuss the key problems with Australia\u2019s current system of refugee protection, focusing in particular on mandatory indefinite detention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle Foster<\/strong> is a Professor and the inaugural Director of the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. Michelle has published widely in the field of international refugee law, including <em>International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation<\/em> (CUP, 2007) and, with James Hathaway, <em>The Law of Refugee Status<\/em>, Second Edition, (CUP, 2014). Michelle\u2019s most recent publications explore various legal issues concerning the recognition and protection of stateless persons, including a monograph with Professor Helene Lambert, entitled <em>The Protection of Stateless Persons in International Refugee Law <\/em>(forthcoming OUP, 2018). Michelle teaches Refugee Law and International Refugee Law at Melbourne Law School, and in 2017 taught in the International Summer School in Forced Migration at Oxford\u2019s Refugee Studies Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Australia receives a disproportionately small share of the world\u2019s refugees, the \u2018problem\u2019 of unauthorized boat arrivals has been a highly controversial and political one in recent decades.\u00a0 In this Grand Round for Refugee week, Professor Michelle Foster, from the Melbourne Law School, will discuss the key problems with Australia\u2019s current system of refugee protection, focusing in particular on mandatory indefinite detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7957,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-refugee-week","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}