WHITHER INDEFINITE IMMIGRATION DETENTION IN AUSTRALIA? RETHINKING LEGAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE DETENTION OF NON-CITIZENS

LAWS 7714 Seminar Six Access to Asylum and Offshore Processing: The Lived Experience

Seminar Four: Immigration Detention and its Socio-legal Consequences In this seminar, we will explore the core substantive legal issues around migration control, specifically immigration detention; including, the international human rights law norms drawn from the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that address protection of liberty and, therefore, the ‘administrative’ detention of asylum seekers […]

Seminar four: Access to Asylum and Administrative Detention Art 31(1) Refugees Convention: ‘The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened …, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present […]

LAWS7714: Seminar Five – Access to Asylum and Offshore Processing “Obstructing safe travel, indefinite detention and forced removal become routine practices in pursuit of the organisational goal of denying refugees the ability to seek asylum in accordance with the 1951 Refugee Convention” (Nethery and Holman, “Secrecy and human rights abuse in Australia’s offshore immigration detention […]