Migration and Refugee Law
Principles and Practice in Australia

A fully revised and comprehensive overview of the legal principles governing the entry of people into Australia.

John Vrachnas (Author), Mirko Bagaric (Author), Penny Dimopoulos (Author), Athula Pathinayake (Author)

9781107623279, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 September 2011

382 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.55 kg

'Migration and Refugee Law is a thorough examination of immigration and refugee law in Australia, taking pains to articulate a dichotomy between the two that the authors admit is 'nonexistent at a formal level'. While refugee law is not extensive, it is complex and contentious, and it is treated accordingly in this text, of which roughly half is devoted to issues relating to claiming asylum.' Migration Australia

Migration and Refugee Law: Principles and Practice in Australia is a comprehensive overview of the legal principles governing the entry of people into Australia. This fully revised third edition provides an accessible analysis of the theory and practice of this complex and controversial area of the law. It considers the social and political context of migration and refugee law in devising innovative policies aimed at creating an equitable and rational immigration system. Migration and Refugee Law: Principles and Practice in Australia combines an astute consideration of theory with the creation of practical policy solutions, and is therefore an essential resource for migration lawyers and agents, government employees, students, judicial officers and policymakers.

1. Historical context to migration
2. Immigration control: an overview
3. Basic migration legislation and policy
4. The visa system and application procedures
5. Family and interdependency migration and other Australia-based visas
6. Business and investment visas
7. Skill-based visas
8. Temporary visas
9. Miscellaneous visas
10. Common visa requirements
11. Compliance: unlawful non-citizens, removal and deportation
12. History of the refugees convention and definitional framework
13. Refugee and humanitarian visas: the statutory structure
14. Convention grounds
15. Persecution
16. Well-founded fear of persecution
17. Limits on protection of refugees – cessation, exclusion exceptions and protection by another country
18. Time for a fundamental re-think: need as the criterion for assistance
19. The determination and review process for migration and refugee decisions.

Subject Areas: Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Laws of Specific jurisdictions [LN], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]