Susan Kneebone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Kneebone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kneebone |
| SIGNATURE | KNEEBONE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8309-9541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
New Zealand’s “Complementary” Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship
This article which includes analysis of interviews, examines New Zealand’s Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship programme in which both nominated and UNHCR referred applicants are selected for resettlement in a scheme which is additional to the state’s refugee resettlement quota programme (RQP). It argues that in New Zealand a “sustainable community” for refugee sponsorship has developed as a result of a “compact” between sponsors and other…
Interrogating the “Complementarity” of Complementary Pathways
The rise of “complementary pathways” poses challenges to international refugee protection. This Special Issue consists of seven original and interdisciplinary articles based on empirical research, which examine the legal, normative, and practical implications of attempts to broaden protection to incorporate “complementary pathways” in responding to the global challenge of increasing numbers of people in need of international protection. The artic…
The False Promise of Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016
In this Introduction, Indonesia's approach towards refugee protection is contextualized historically and regionally in light of the enactment of Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016 concerning the Treatment of Refugees (PR). In particular, we describe the legal and policy framework for refugee protection in Indonesia and analyze its underlying norms and values, including the constitutional right to asylum. We explain how the legal framework co…
The Refugees Convention 50 Years On
The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitioners, look at the controversial hot topic of refugee rights. They consider whether, 50 years after its agreement, the Refugees' Convention can provide an adequate framework for protection. In particular, the authors address: the effect of globalization upon the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees; the efficacy of the Convention as an…
Refugees Convention 50 Years On
Australia as a Powerbroker on Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia
Using the example of Australian-Indonesian cooperation on deterrence of asylum seekers in transit through Indonesia to Australia, this article challenges the view that Australia is a regional hegemon. It does this through two main methods. First, it engages in a close analysis of the shifting relationship between the two countries on refugee and asylum-seeker issues through different periods since 2001 to 2016. This demonstrates that the relation…
Comparative Regional Protection Frameworks for Refugees
Comparative regional protection frameworks for refugees
This article analyses the strengths and limits of regional approaches to refugee protection. It compares three regions; namely the EU, Latin America and the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. It refers to two refugee protection crises to highlight the importance of regional approaches to refugee protection: namely the Rohingya “boat people” crisis which unfolded in the Indian Ocean in May 2015 and the advance of Syrian refugees towards Europe which es…
Molland S, The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong
Special Section
Refugee Protection and the Role of Law
Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee. This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary 'refugeehood' : protection and identity. It analyses how the issue of refugee identity is shaped b…
The Bali Process and Global Refugee Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
This article examines the role of two regional actors in the Asia–Pacific region, namely the Bali Process and the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a platform of civil society organizations, as two very different models of mechanisms and agenda-setting on Global Refugee Policy (GRP). The Bali Process has limited actors and a narrow discourse on refugees which reflects a hierarchical agenda-setting process or ‘steering mode’. By contras…
Introduction Migrant Workers Between States
It Would be Okay If They Came through the Proper Channels
Australia's humanitarian programme contributes to UNHCR's global resettlement programme and enhances Australia's international humanitarian reputation. However, as the recent tragedy on Christmas Island has shown, the arrival of asylum seekers by boat continues to stimulate debate, discussion and reaction from the Australian public and the Australian media. In this study, we used a mixed methods community survey to understand community perception…
Aids Assassins
The media representations of refugees who are HIV-positive often revolve around criminal transmission cases. This study examines the approach the Australian mass media have taken toward the case of two men from refugee backgrounds and how this stigmatizing language is unhelpful in discussions of HIV. An extensive search of the Factiva database was undertaken for all newspaper articles in the major dailies that mentioned “HIV,” “AIDS,” and “refuge…
Governance Beyond Boundaries
This collection arises from a panel entitled “Governance Beyond Boundaries”, organized by Martin Jones and Susan Kneebone for the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 28 June to 2 July 2009. The theme of the conference was “Transforming Boundaries” in the context of forced migration, with an emphasis on boundaries of identity, community, and policy. Bounda…
The Refugee-Trafficking Nexus
Journal Article The Refugee–Trafficking Nexus: Making Good (The) Connections Get access Susan Kneebone Susan Kneebone * * Susan Kneebone is a Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdq0…
The Governance of Labor Migration in Southeast Asia
This article examines the international governance framework for labor migration and evaluates the roles of international organizations, and regional strategies, for cooperation on governance of labor migration in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the mandates and strategies used by the two key international institutions in the region, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration, which have diverse origins a…
Legitimizing Rejection
The focus of this book is on why the majority of Southeast Asian states have not acceded to the two pivotal international refugee law instruments, namely the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Geneva, 28 July 1951, in force 22 April 1954, 1989 UNTS 137 (‘Refugee Convention’) and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, New York, 31 January 1967, in force 4 October 1967, 19 UNTS 6223, 6257 (‘Refugee Protocol’). It ‘aims to reme…
Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration
The response to the trafficking of women is primarily dominated by the discourse of criminal law both internationally and nationally. By contrast, in the refugee law context, women are constructed as victims in a ‘culturally relative’, patriarchal society. This paper explores the tensions between these constructs and the practical responses to protecting trafficked women. Taking Australia's policy response to the trafficking of women in the Asia-…
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers
Taking the context of forced migration, this book addresses the role that regional, in contrast to national or global, institutions and relationships play in shaping asylum policies and procedures. It examines the causes of forced migration movements; the direction of forced migration flows and its effect upon the immediate region; policy responses towards forced migration (in particular ASEAN and the European Community); cooperative arrangements…
New regionalism and asylum seekers
The Migration-Asylum Nexus and Regional Approaches Stephen Castles Introduction What is the migration-asylum nexus? Notes for a political economy of forced migration Regional responses Conclusion Chapter 2. Strategies, Stories and Smuggling: Inter-regional Asylum Flows and Their Implications for Regional Responses Khalid Koser Introduction Methodology The impact of asylum and immigration policies and procedures The role of social networks The gro…
The Pacific Plan
The issue that is examined in this article is whether the Australian model of extraterritorial processing is one that provides ‘effective protection’ to asylum seekers. The legal foundation of the Pacific Strategy was by means of new interdiction powers and an extension of the notion of safe third country. Three issues are examined: the first is the meaning of effective protection under this extended notion of safe third country, the second is th…
A Mediterranean Solution? Chances of Success
This paper summarises the views that were presented at the workshop from which the collection arises by considering the problems and prospects of a Mediterranean solution. In summary, it is suggested that the emphasis should be upon ‘joined up’ political, diplomatic and development initiatives rather than upon extraterritorial processing. The conclusion is that such processing carries too many risks of a breach of human rights and, moreover, does…
It Would be Okay If They Came through the Proper Channels
Australia's humanitarian programme contributes to UNHCR's global resettlement programme and enhances Australia's international humanitarian reputation. However, as the recent tragedy on Christmas Island has shown, the arrival of asylum seekers by boat continues to stimulate debate, discussion and reaction from the Australian public and the Australian media. In this study, we used a mixed methods community survey to understand community perception…
The Bali Process and Global Refugee Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
This article examines the role of two regional actors in the Asia–Pacific region, namely the Bali Process and the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a platform of civil society organizations, as two very different models of mechanisms and agenda-setting on Global Refugee Policy (GRP). The Bali Process has limited actors and a narrow discourse on refugees which reflects a hierarchical agenda-setting process or ‘steering mode’. By contras…
Comparative regional protection frameworks for refugees
This article analyses the strengths and limits of regional approaches to refugee protection. It compares three regions; namely the EU, Latin America and the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. It refers to two refugee protection crises to highlight the importance of regional approaches to refugee protection: namely the Rohingya “boat people” crisis which unfolded in the Indian Ocean in May 2015 and the advance of Syrian refugees towards Europe which es…
The False Promise of Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016
In this Introduction, Indonesia's approach towards refugee protection is contextualized historically and regionally in light of the enactment of Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016 concerning the Treatment of Refugees (PR). In particular, we describe the legal and policy framework for refugee protection in Indonesia and analyze its underlying norms and values, including the constitutional right to asylum. We explain how the legal framework co…
Australia as a Powerbroker on Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia
Using the example of Australian-Indonesian cooperation on deterrence of asylum seekers in transit through Indonesia to Australia, this article challenges the view that Australia is a regional hegemon. It does this through two main methods. First, it engages in a close analysis of the shifting relationship between the two countries on refugee and asylum-seeker issues through different periods since 2001 to 2016. This demonstrates that the relation…
Aids Assassins
The media representations of refugees who are HIV-positive often revolve around criminal transmission cases. This study examines the approach the Australian mass media have taken toward the case of two men from refugee backgrounds and how this stigmatizing language is unhelpful in discussions of HIV. An extensive search of the Factiva database was undertaken for all newspaper articles in the major dailies that mentioned “HIV,” “AIDS,” and “refuge…
The Refugee-Trafficking Nexus
Journal Article The Refugee–Trafficking Nexus: Making Good (The) Connections Get access Susan Kneebone Susan Kneebone * * Susan Kneebone is a Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdq0…
Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration
The response to the trafficking of women is primarily dominated by the discourse of criminal law both internationally and nationally. By contrast, in the refugee law context, women are constructed as victims in a ‘culturally relative’, patriarchal society. This paper explores the tensions between these constructs and the practical responses to protecting trafficked women. Taking Australia's policy response to the trafficking of women in the Asia-…
Introduction Migrant Workers Between States
The Governance of Labor Migration in Southeast Asia
This article examines the international governance framework for labor migration and evaluates the roles of international organizations, and regional strategies, for cooperation on governance of labor migration in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the mandates and strategies used by the two key international institutions in the region, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration, which have diverse origins a…
Legitimizing Rejection
The focus of this book is on why the majority of Southeast Asian states have not acceded to the two pivotal international refugee law instruments, namely the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Geneva, 28 July 1951, in force 22 April 1954, 1989 UNTS 137 (‘Refugee Convention’) and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, New York, 31 January 1967, in force 4 October 1967, 19 UNTS 6223, 6257 (‘Refugee Protocol’). It ‘aims to reme…
Refugee Status in Australia and the Cessation Provisions
The rights of strangers
In this paper I argue that the Australian courts have given the non-refoulement obligation in art 33 of the Geneva Refugee Convention 1951 (the Convention) a minimalist interpretation which fails to take account of the underlying principle requiring states to provide 'effective nationality' to asylum seekers. I describe how nationality is used as an exclusive rather than inclusive concept in the interpretation of the Convention. This interpretati…
Women Within the Refugee Construct
Whilst women are a significant proportion of the world's refugee population, they are less likely than men to make a claim for refugee status in a Western state. But if they do, they are most likely to succeed upon the basis of a claim as a victim of violence in a patriarchal society. This paper demonstrates how this paradigm constructs women ‘culturally’ or socially as objects of a power relationship, and how this diminishes their experiences as…
Women Within the Refugee Construct
Whilst women are a significant proportion of the world's refugee population, they are less likely than men to make a claim for refugee status in a Western state. But if they do, they are most likely to succeed upon the basis of a claim as a victim of violence in a patriarchal society. This paper demonstrates how this paradigm constructs women ‘culturally’ or socially as objects of a power relationship, and how this diminishes their experiences as…
The Pacific Plan
The issue that is examined in this article is whether the Australian model of extraterritorial processing is one that provides ‘effective protection’ to asylum seekers. The legal foundation of the Pacific Strategy was by means of new interdiction powers and an extension of the notion of safe third country. Three issues are examined: the first is the meaning of effective protection under this extended notion of safe third country, the second is th…
A Mediterranean Solution? Chances of Success
This paper summarises the views that were presented at the workshop from which the collection arises by considering the problems and prospects of a Mediterranean solution. In summary, it is suggested that the emphasis should be upon ‘joined up’ political, diplomatic and development initiatives rather than upon extraterritorial processing. The conclusion is that such processing carries too many risks of a breach of human rights and, moreover, does…
Refugee Status in Australia and the Cessation Provisions
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers
Taking the context of forced migration, this book addresses the role that regional, in contrast to national or global, institutions and relationships play in shaping asylum policies and procedures. It examines the causes of forced migration movements; the direction of forced migration flows and its effect upon the immediate region; policy responses towards forced migration (in particular ASEAN and the European Community); cooperative arrangements…
New regionalism and asylum seekers
The Migration-Asylum Nexus and Regional Approaches Stephen Castles Introduction What is the migration-asylum nexus? Notes for a political economy of forced migration Regional responses Conclusion Chapter 2. Strategies, Stories and Smuggling: Inter-regional Asylum Flows and Their Implications for Regional Responses Khalid Koser Introduction Methodology The impact of asylum and immigration policies and procedures The role of social networks The gro…
Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration
The response to the trafficking of women is primarily dominated by the discourse of criminal law both internationally and nationally. By contrast, in the refugee law context, women are constructed as victims in a ‘culturally relative’, patriarchal society. This paper explores the tensions between these constructs and the practical responses to protecting trafficked women. Taking Australia's policy response to the trafficking of women in the Asia-…
Legitimizing Rejection
The focus of this book is on why the majority of Southeast Asian states have not acceded to the two pivotal international refugee law instruments, namely the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, Geneva, 28 July 1951, in force 22 April 1954, 1989 UNTS 137 (‘Refugee Convention’) and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, New York, 31 January 1967, in force 4 October 1967, 19 UNTS 6223, 6257 (‘Refugee Protocol’). It ‘aims to reme…
Governance Beyond Boundaries
This collection arises from a panel entitled “Governance Beyond Boundaries”, organized by Martin Jones and Susan Kneebone for the 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, hosted by the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 28 June to 2 July 2009. The theme of the conference was “Transforming Boundaries” in the context of forced migration, with an emphasis on boundaries of identity, community, and policy. Bounda…
The Refugee-Trafficking Nexus
Journal Article The Refugee–Trafficking Nexus: Making Good (The) Connections Get access Susan Kneebone Susan Kneebone * * Susan Kneebone is a Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Victoria, Australia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdq0…
The Governance of Labor Migration in Southeast Asia
This article examines the international governance framework for labor migration and evaluates the roles of international organizations, and regional strategies, for cooperation on governance of labor migration in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the mandates and strategies used by the two key international institutions in the region, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration, which have diverse origins a…
It Would be Okay If They Came through the Proper Channels
Australia's humanitarian programme contributes to UNHCR's global resettlement programme and enhances Australia's international humanitarian reputation. However, as the recent tragedy on Christmas Island has shown, the arrival of asylum seekers by boat continues to stimulate debate, discussion and reaction from the Australian public and the Australian media. In this study, we used a mixed methods community survey to understand community perception…
Aids Assassins
The media representations of refugees who are HIV-positive often revolve around criminal transmission cases. This study examines the approach the Australian mass media have taken toward the case of two men from refugee backgrounds and how this stigmatizing language is unhelpful in discussions of HIV. An extensive search of the Factiva database was undertaken for all newspaper articles in the major dailies that mentioned “HIV,” “AIDS,” and “refuge…
Introduction Migrant Workers Between States
Refugee Protection and the Role of Law
Sixty years on from the signing of the Refugee Convention, forced migration and refugee movements continue to raise global concerns for hosting states and regions, for countries of origin, for humanitarian organisations on the ground, and, of course, for the refugee. This edited volume is framed around two themes which go to the core of contemporary 'refugeehood' : protection and identity. It analyses how the issue of refugee identity is shaped b…
The Bali Process and Global Refugee Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
This article examines the role of two regional actors in the Asia–Pacific region, namely the Bali Process and the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a platform of civil society organizations, as two very different models of mechanisms and agenda-setting on Global Refugee Policy (GRP). The Bali Process has limited actors and a narrow discourse on refugees which reflects a hierarchical agenda-setting process or ‘steering mode’. By contras…
Molland S, The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong
Special Section
Comparative regional protection frameworks for refugees
This article analyses the strengths and limits of regional approaches to refugee protection. It compares three regions; namely the EU, Latin America and the Southeast Asian (SEA) region. It refers to two refugee protection crises to highlight the importance of regional approaches to refugee protection: namely the Rohingya “boat people” crisis which unfolded in the Indian Ocean in May 2015 and the advance of Syrian refugees towards Europe which es…
Australia as a Powerbroker on Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia
Using the example of Australian-Indonesian cooperation on deterrence of asylum seekers in transit through Indonesia to Australia, this article challenges the view that Australia is a regional hegemon. It does this through two main methods. First, it engages in a close analysis of the shifting relationship between the two countries on refugee and asylum-seeker issues through different periods since 2001 to 2016. This demonstrates that the relation…
Comparative Regional Protection Frameworks for Refugees
The Refugees Convention 50 Years On
The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitioners, look at the controversial hot topic of refugee rights. They consider whether, 50 years after its agreement, the Refugees' Convention can provide an adequate framework for protection. In particular, the authors address: the effect of globalization upon the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees; the efficacy of the Convention as an…
Political science (24 works) · Refugee (21 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economics (8 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 works) · Criminology (6 works)