Publications

View selected publications by our Centre members

  • Costello, C, Foster, M  and McAdam, J (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, OUP, Oxford, lxxviii+ 1258 pages (2021)
  • Silverstein, J and Stevens, R (eds), Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance, Canberra: ANU Press (2021)
  • Foster, M and Lambert, H, International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom (2019)
  • Kneebone, S (ed), Comparative Regional Protection Frameworks for Refugees, Routledge, United Kingdom (2017)
  • Rijken, C, van Waas, L, Gramatikov, M and Brennan, D, The Nexus between Statelessness and Human Trafficking: The example of Thailand, Wolf Legal Publishers (2015)
  • Silverstein, J, Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, New York: Berghahn Books (2015)
  • Hathaway, J and Foster, M, The Law of Refugee Status, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom (2014)
  • Kneebone, S, Stevens, D and Baldassar, L (eds), Refugee Protection and the Role of Law: Conflicting Identities, Routledge, United Kingdom (2014)
  • Kneebone, S (ed), Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom (2009)
  • Foster, M, International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights: Refuge from Deprivation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: xlvii + 387 pp (2007) (Hardback).  Reprinted in Paperback in 2009
  • F. Abbott, C. Breining-Kaufmann, T. Cottier, M. Foster, T. Fischer, (eds) International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues, University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor: xvi + 383 pp (2006)
  • Foster, M,  ‘Displacement and Social and Economic Rights' in Malcolm Langford and Katharine Young, Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights, OUP, forthcoming 2022, accepted 16th September 2021
  • Foster, Michelle & Roberts, Jade, 'Manufacturing Foreigners: The law and politics of transforming citizens into migrants' in Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
  • Silverstein, Jordana, ‘“His happy go lucky attitude is infectious”: Australian Imaginings of Unaccompanied Child Refugees, 1970s-1980s,’ in Jordana Silverstein and Rachel Stevens (eds), Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance, Canberra: ANU Press, 2021, pp. 71-88.
  • Sperfeldt, C and Razali, RM, ‘Statelessness in ASEAN: Causes and Responses to a Protracted Problem’ in K Tan, D Cohen and A Nababan (eds), Human Rights and ASEAN: Indonesian and International Perspectives (World Scientific, 2021) 183-210.
  • Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster and Jane McAdam, ‘Introducing a Scholarly Field’, in C. Costello, M. Foster and J. McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, OUP 2021
  • Adrienne Anderson and Michelle Foster, ‘A Feminist Appraisal of International Refugee Law’ in C. Costello, M. Foster and J. McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, OUP 2021
  • Michelle Foster and Anna Hood, ‘Refugee Regimes: Oceania’ in C. Costello, M. Foster and J. McAdam (eds) The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law, OUP 2021
  • Brennan, D, Murray, N and Petrozziello A, ‘Multiply marginalized: Applying Intersectionality to Understand Lived Experiences of Statelessness in Europe’ in T Bloom and L Kingston Global Governance and Statelessness, Manchester University Press (forthcoming)
  • Christoph Sperfeldt, ‘Cambodia’ in Olivier Vonk (ed), Nationality Law in the Eastern Hemisphere: Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in Asian Perspective (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2018) 91-115.
  • Michelle Foster, 'The Separation of Judicial Power' in Saunders, C. & Stone, A. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of The Australian Constitution, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 672-695 (2018)
  • Albarazi, Z, Brennan, D and van Waas, L, ‘Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws: Human Rights Pathways to Gender Neutrality’ in Niamh Reilly (ed) International Human Rights of Women (Springer 2018)
  • Cathryn Costello and Michelle Foster, ‘Non-refoulement as Custom and Jus Cogens? Putting the Prohibition to the Test’ in Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2015: Jus Cogens: Quo Vadis?. Springer. (2016)
  • Michelle Foster, ‘Economic Migrant or Person in Need of Protection? Socio-Economic Rights and Persecution in International Refugee Law’ in Human Rights and the Refugee Definition: Comparative Legal Practice and Theory, (Brill, 2016)
  • Michelle Foster, ‘Why We Are Not There Yet: The Particular Challenge of “Particular Social Group”’, in Efrat Arbel, Catherine Dauvergne, and Jenni Millbank (eds), Gender Equality in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre, (Routledge, 2014) 17-45
  • Cheryl Saunders and Michelle Foster, ‘The Australian Federation: A Story of the Centralization of Power’, in D. Halberstam and M. Reimann (eds), Federalism and Legal Unification: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems (Springer, 2014) 87-102
  • Kneebone, S, 'Transnational Labour Migrants: Whose Responsibility?' in K Rubenstein, K Nolan, M Nolan and F Jenkins (eds), Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom (2014), 426-450
  • Kneebone, S, 'Human Trafficking and Refugee Women' in E Arbel, C Dauvergne and J Millbank (eds), Gender Equality in Refugee Law: Are We There Yet?, Routledge, United Kingdom (2014), 197-219
  • Kneebone, S, 'ASEAN and the Conceptualisation of Refugee Protection' in A Abass and F Ippolito (eds), Regional Approaches to the Protection of Asylum Seekers: An International Legal Perspective, Ashgate, United Kingdom (2014), 295-323
  • Michelle Foster and Jonathan Klaaren, 'Asylum and Refugees', in Mark Tushnet, Thomas Fleiner and Cheryl Saunders (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law, (Routledge, 2013) 415-425
  • Cheryl Saunders and Michelle Foster, 'Australia' in D. Halberstam, M. Reimann, J. Sanchez Cordero (ed), Federalismand Legal Unification: A Comparative Empirical Investigation of Twenty Systems (International Academy of Comparative Law 2012) 66-76
  • Kneebone, S and O'Sullivan, M, 'Article 1 C (Definition of the Term 'Refugee'/Definition du Terme 'Refuie')' in A Zimmerman (ed), The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom (2011), 481-535
  • Michelle Foster, ‘Refugee Law’ in I. Freckelton SC and H. Selby (eds), Appealing to the Future: Michael Kirby and His Legacy, Thomson Reuters, Sydney:  pp. 685-719 (2009)
  • C. Breining-Kaufmann and M. Foster, ‘Introduction’ in International Trade and Human Rights: Foundations and Conceptual Issues, in F. Abbott, C. Breining-Kaufmann, T. Cottier, M. Foster, T. Fischer (eds), University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor: pp 3-18 (2006)
  • J.C. Hathaway and M. Foster, ‘Internal protection/relocation/flight alternative as an aspect of refugee status determination’ in Refugee Protection in International Law: UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection eds. E. Feller, V. Turk, F. Nicholson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: pp. 357-471 (2003).
  • Michelle Foster, Hannah Gordon, Hélène Lambert and Jane McAdam, ‘‘Time’ in Refugee Status Determination in Australia and the United Kingdom: a Clear and Present Danger from Armed Conflict?’ (2022) International Journal of Refugee Law, forthcoming, (accepted 24th September 2021)
  • Cathryn Costello and Michelle Foster, ‘Race Discrimination Effaced at the International Court of Justice’ (2021) AJIL Unbound, 115, 339-344
  • Michelle Foster and Timnah Baker, ‘Racial Discrimination in Nationality laws: A Doctrinal Blind Spot of International Law?’ (2021) 11(1) Columbia Journal on Race and Law 83-146
  • McGee, Thomas, 'Citizenship stripping as alternative border control: Syrian counter-perspectives', Routed Magazine, May 2021
  • Foster, Michelle, Lambert, Helene & McAdam Jane. "Refugee Protection in the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond: The Capacity and Limits of International Law." UNSW Law Journal Vol.44, No.1. April 2021
  • Sperfeldt, Christoph. "Legal identity in the sustainable development agenda: actors, perspectives and trends in an emerging field of research." International Journal of Human Rights, April 2021
  • Sperfeldt, C, ‘Legal Identity and Statelessness in Southeast Asia’ (2021) 147 Asia Pacific Issues.
  • Jordana Silverstein, ‘“Best interests of the child”, Australian refugee policy, and the (im)possibilities of international solidarity,’ Human Rights Review 22, no. 4 (2021): 389-405.
  • Sara Dehm and Jordana Silverstein, ‘Film as an Anti-Asylum Technique: International Law, Borders and the Gendering of Refugee Subjectivities,’ Griffith Law Review 29, no. 3 (2020): 425-450.
  • Silverstein, Jordana, ‘Refugee children, boats, and drownings: A history of an Australian ‘humanitarian’ discourse,’ History Australia 17, no. 4 (2020): 728-742
  • McGee, Thomas,  'Recognising Stateless Refugees' 65 Forced Migration Review (2020) 45-47
  • McGee, Thomas, 'Born of ISIS Genocide: Risk of Statelessness and Stigmatised Nationality Acquisition for Children of Yezidi Survivors', Rowaq Arabi journal (2020)
  • McGee, Thomas, ‘"Rainbow Statelessness" - Between Sexual Citizenship and Legal Theory: Exploring the Statelessness-LGBTIQ+ Nexus' (2020) 2(1) Statelessness and Citizenship Review
  • Sperfeldt, Christoph, 'Minorities and Statelessness: Social Exclusion and Citizenship in Cambodia' (2020) 27(1) International Journal on Minority and Group Rights  94-120
  • Michelle Foster, Lambert, Hélène & McAdam, Jane, ‘Refugee Protection in the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond: the Capacity and Limits of International Law’, (2021) 44(1) UNSWLJ 104-125
  • Michelle Foster and Kirsty Gover, ‘Determining Membership: Aboriginality and Alienage in the Australian High Court’ (2020) 31(2) Public Law Review
  • Adrienne Anderson, Michelle Foster, Hélène Lambert, & Jane McAdam, ‘A Well-founded Fear of Being Persecuted ... But When?’(2020) 42(2) Sydney Law Review 155-180
  • Adrienne Anderson, Michelle Foster, Hélène Lambert, & Jane McAdam, 'Imminence in Refugee and Human Rights Law: A Misplaced Notion for International Protection', (2019) International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 111-140
  • McGee, Thomas and Albarazi, Zahra, 'Eight years of Displacement: Syria's Statelessness still Unidentified' (2020) 8(2) Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration 39-43
  • Brennan, D, ‘Feminist Foresight in Statelessness: Century-Old Citizenship Equality Campaigns’ (2020) Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 2(1)
  • Silverstein, Jordana, ‘“Because we all love our country”: Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children, Australian Policy-makers, and the Building of National Sentiment,’ Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65, no. 4 (December 2019): 532-548
  • Silverstein, Jordana,  ‘“I’m skeptical of foreigners”: Making space for discomfort in an oral history interview,’ Oral History Australia, no. 41 (2019): 12-21
  • Brennan, D, ‘Statelessness and the Feminist Toolbox: Another Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution?’ (2019) Tilburg Law Review, 24(2)
  • McGee, T, 'Experiences of Stateless Kurds and Palestinian Refugees from Syria Seeking Protection in Europe From Syria to Europe' (2019) Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) & European Statelessness Network (ENS) & ASKV Refugee Support
  • Silverstein,Jordana, ‘“The beneficent and legal godfather”: A History of the Guardianship of Unaccompanied Immigrant and Refugee Children, 1946-1975,’History of the Family 22, no. 4 (2017): 446-465
  • Silverstein, Jordana, ‘“I am responsible”: Histories of the Intersection of the Guardianship of Unaccompanied Child Refugees and the Australian Border,’ Cultural Studies Review 22, no. 2 (2016): 65-89
  • Foster, M, McAdam, J and Wadley, D, 'Part One: the Protection of Statelessness Persons in Australian law - The Rationale for a Statelessness Determination Procedure' (2016) 40 Melbourne University Law Review 456-505
  • Foster, M, McAdam, J and Wadley, D, 'Part Two: The Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness in Australia - An Ongoing Challenge' (2016) 40 Melbourne University Law Review 401-455
  • McGee, T, 'The Stateless Kurds of Syria: Ethnic Identity and National I.D.' (2014) 19 Tilburg Law Review 171-81
  • Foster, M and Lambert, H, 'Statelessness as a Human Rights Issue: A Concept Whose Time Has Come' (2016) 28(4) International Journal of Refugee Law 564-584
  • Kneebone, S, 'The Bali Process and Global Refugee Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region' (2014) 27(4) Journal of Refugee Studies 596-618
  • McGee, T, 'The Stateless Kurds of Syria: Ethnic Identity and National I.D.' (2014) 19 Tilburg Law Review 171-81
  • Michelle Foster, 'The Implications of the Failed 'Malaysian Solution': The Australian High Court and Refugee Responsibility Sharing at International Law' (2012) 13 The Melbourne Journal of International Law 395-423
  • Michelle Foster and J. Pobjoy, 'A failed case of legal exceptionalism? Refugee status determination in Australia's 'excised' territory' (2011) 23 International Journal of Refugee Law 583-631
  • Kneebone, S, 'The Refugee-Trafficking Nexus: Making Good (The) Connections' (2010) 29(1) Refugee Survey Quarterly 137-160
  • Michelle Foster, ‘An Alien by the Barest of Threads’: The Legality of the Deportation of Long-Term Residents from Australia', (2009) 33(2) Melbourne University Law Review, 483-541
  • Michelle Foster, 'Non-refoulement on the basis of Socio-Economic Deprivation: The Scope of Complementary Protection in International Human Rights Law', (2009) Part II New Zealand Law Review, 257-310.  Reprinted in Mary Crock (ed), Refugees and Rights (Routledge 2015)
  • Michelle Foster, 'Responsibility sharing or shifting? "Safe" third countries and international law' (2008) 25 Refuge 64-78
  • Anna Dorevitch and Michelle Foster, 'Obstacles on the road to protection: Assessing the treatment of sex-trafficking victims under Australia's migration and refugee law' (2008) 9 The Melbourne Journal of International Law, 1-46
  • Michelle Foster, 'Protection elsewhere: The legal implications of requiring refugees to seek protection in another state' (2007) 28 Michigan Journal of International Law, 223-286; Reprinted in James C. Hathaway (ed), Human Rights and Refugee Law (Edward Elgar 2013)
  • Michelle Foster, 'Membership in the Australian Community: Singh v The Commonwealth and its Consequences for Australian Citizenship Law' (2006) 34 Federal Law Review 161-183
  • McSherry, B and Kneebone, S, 'Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration: Moving Victims Across the Border of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights' (2008) 12(1) International Journal of Human Rights 67-87
  • Kneebone, S, 'Women Within the Refugee Construct: Exclusionary inclusion' in 'Policy and Practice - The Australian Experience' (2005) 17(1) International Journal of Refugee Law 7-42
  • R. Haines, J. Hathaway and M. Foster, 'Claims to Refugee Status Based on Voluntary but Protected Actions' (2003) 15 International Journal of Refugee Law 430-443
  • J. Hathaway and M. Foster, 'Membership of a Particular Social Group ' (2003) 15 International Journal of Refugee Law 477-491
  • J. Hathaway and M. Foster, 'The Causal Connection ("Nexus") to a Convention Ground' (2003) 15 International Journal of Refugee Law 461-476
  • P. Mathew, J. Hathaway and M. Foster, 'The Role of State Protection in Refugee Analysis' (2003) 15 International Journal of Refugee Law 444-460
  • Michelle Foster, 'Causation in context: Interpreting the nexus clause in the refugee convention' (2002) 23 Michigan Journal of International Law 265-340
  • Michelle Foster, 'The Evidence Act and Pre-trial Procedures: the Implications of R v Young' (1999) 6(6) Criminal Law News 56-60
  • Michelle Foster, 'Sentencing for Multiple Offences: The Impact of Pearce v R on Sentencing in NSW' (1999) 6(4) Criminal Law News 37-40
  • Silverstein, Jordana, 'Book review: Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman, Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia.' Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021,’ Australian Historical Studies 53, no. 2 (2022): 353-354
  • Silverstein, Jordana, 'Book review: Anna Hájková, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), p. 376,’ Gender & History 34, no. 1 (March 2022): 305-307
  • McGee, Thomas 'Book review: Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf by Noora Lori' (2020) 2(2) Statelessness and Citizenship Review 355–360
  • McGee, Thomas, 'Book Review: Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights Refuge by Lindsey N. Kingston' (2020) 36(1) Canada’s Journal on Refugees 109-111
  • McGee, Thomas, 'Book review: We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know: Dispatches from an age of impunity by Sophie McNeill' (2020) 421 Australian Book Review