TY - JOUR
T1 - Settling refugees in Australia
T2 - achievements and challenges
AU - Fozdar, Farida
AU - Banki, Susan
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article examines the extent to which Australia fulfils its legal obligations for resettled refugees. This necessitates noting both the international frameworks that inform the rights accorded to refugees as well as applicable Australian law and policies. But while laws provide us with a point of departure, a thorough analysis of how these laws are upheld requires a focus on the lived experience of settlement, and identification of where law, policy and practice are disjoint and where they conjoin. The paper concludes by noting the opportunities provided by, and limitations of, law and policy, as means to facilitate integration of resettled refugees, and offers some thoughts on how refugee resettlement in Australia might be improved.
AB - This article examines the extent to which Australia fulfils its legal obligations for resettled refugees. This necessitates noting both the international frameworks that inform the rights accorded to refugees as well as applicable Australian law and policies. But while laws provide us with a point of departure, a thorough analysis of how these laws are upheld requires a focus on the lived experience of settlement, and identification of where law, policy and practice are disjoint and where they conjoin. The paper concludes by noting the opportunities provided by, and limitations of, law and policy, as means to facilitate integration of resettled refugees, and offers some thoughts on how refugee resettlement in Australia might be improved.
U2 - 10.1504/IJMBS.2017.081197
DO - 10.1504/IJMBS.2017.081197
M3 - Article
SN - 1755-2419
VL - 3
SP - 43
EP - 66
JO - International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
JF - International Journal of Migration and Border Studies
IS - 1
ER -