The non-citizens in the NZYQ group cannot be returned to their country of origin. But sending them to Nauru just pushes the issue onto a poorer country.
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the Nauru parliament announced a deal between the Home Affairs Minister and Nauru for that country to accept up to 280 former immigration detainees from Australia.
One concern is the precedent this agreement with Nauru sets for how other countries may treat refugees with criminal convictions.
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on refugees.
The UN Human Rights Committee found 24 young detainees on Nauru experienced “cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment”. But are politicians listening?
The US and Australia are increasingly attaching defence and security conditions to aid for Pacific nations – but that aid is not seeing any real progress on development goals.
The new deal between the countries seems to offer Nauru an economic lifeline while giving Australia security in the region. But the details reveal issues still to be resolved.
The numbers of refugees and asylum seekers are rising at a time when there is growing anti-immigrant sentiment.
With the arrival of 39 foreign nationals in Western Australia, debate around boat arrivals has been re-ignited. What happens if you come by plane instead?
Brett Sonter, Commander of the Joint Agency Task Force Operation Sovereign Borders has had a thinly-veiled slap at the opposition as the the political debate is reactivated over border security.
China is asserting itself in the South Pacific, prompting efforts from the US and its allies to contain its influence.
Our new study describes the health effects of detention on children, and the clinical results are alarming.
Anthropological fieldwork into ‘outsourced’ asylum measures in Nauru and Guatemala reveal how they actually work - and don’t work - in practice.
But the fate of thousands of other refugees and asylum seekers in limbo in Australia remains uncertain.
Does a journalist’s gender matter if their job is to speak truth to power? It shouldn’t but until recently did. A new book, Through Her Eyes, tells the stories of our women foreign correspondents.
Offshore processing is a failed policy that continues to haemorrhage cash, destroy lives and erode the international system for refugee protection.
The mounting urgency about asylum seekers trying to reach the UK by boat does not sweep aside the need for reasoned and rational policymaking.
Nauru is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Australia annually to house 109 asylum seekers. The real purpose, though, is to ‘stand ready to receive new arrivals’.
That no Australian government in almost a decade has successfully brought this policy to a formal close is astonishing. In fact, Australia ceased transferring new arrivals offshore in 2014.
This excessive spending raises serious raise questions about the government’s long-term planning for refugees stuck in limbo.
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