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Bringing Externalisation Home: The International Civil Aviation Organization And “Entry Screening” In Australia, Regina Jefferies
Bringing Externalisation Home: The International Civil Aviation Organization And “Entry Screening” In Australia, Regina Jefferies
Fairhaven Faculty Publications
This paper examines the previously unexplored question of the role of the International Civil Aviation Organization (‘ICAO’) as a forum for the development of practices of externalisation which prevent refugees from reaching state territory and accessing protection. Since 1947, the Convention on International Civil Aviation and ICAO have played a key role in the establishment of the modern legal and operational framework of international air travel. One of ICAO’s principal functions is to formulate and adopt Standards and Recommended Practices which have mainly focused on the safety, regularity and efficiency of civil air travel. The Australian policy of ‘entry screening’ …
Refugee Policy In Australia And New Zealand: An Approach For Resettling Environmentally Displaced Persons?, Sedina Sinanovic
Refugee Policy In Australia And New Zealand: An Approach For Resettling Environmentally Displaced Persons?, Sedina Sinanovic
Master's Theses
An increase in human mobility as a consequence of climate change induced slow-onset environmental degradation and sudden-onset natural disasters is expected to be a defining feature of the 21st century. Inexorably shifting the global migratory landscape, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) approximates that roughly 250 million people will be forcefully displaced due to adverse climate impacts by 2050. While there is no international consensus on appropriately categorizing such people, this thesis refers to them as "environmentally-displaced persons" (EDPs). Since EDPs do not qualify for "refugee" status, they are not afforded access to assistance under the 1951 Convention …