Participant Info
- First Name
- Claire
- Last Name
- Higgins
- Country
- Australia
- State
- c.higgins@unsw.edu.au
- Affiliation
- Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
- Website URL
- http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/profile/claire-higgins
- Keywords
- Australian history, refugee policy, forced migration, asylum seekers, United States in-country refugee admissions
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Dr Claire Higgins is an historian and Senior Research Associate at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. She is the author of ‘Asylum by Boat: origins of Australia’s refugee policy’ (NewSouth, 2017) and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., in 2018. Claire holds a doctorate in History from the University of Oxford. At the Kaldor Centre Claire’s research concerns safe entry pathways for asylum seekers and refugees.
- Recent Publications
Monograph:
C. Higgins, Asylum by Boat: origins of Australia’s refugee policy(NewSouth, 2017)
Journal articles:
J. Betts and C. Higgins, ‘Australia’s in-country program in Sri Lanka: balancing humanitarian and foreign policy objectives’, Asia-Pacific Policy Studies(4(2), 272-285, 2017)
C. Higgins, ‘Status determination of Indochinese boat arrivals: a ‘balancing act’ in Australia’, Journal of Refugee Studies(30(1), 89-105, 2017)
C. Higgins, ‘New evidence on refugee status determination in Australia, 1978-1983’, Refugee Survey Quarterly(35(3), 71-93, 2016)
C. Higgins, ‘The sustainability of Australia’s offshore processing and settlement policy’, Boat Refugees and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights, Brill Publishing (2016)
C. Higgins, ‘Australia’s little-known in-country programme in Latin America’, Refugee Survey Quarterly, is. 1, 2014, 8-24
- Media Coverage
- C. Higgins, 'The refugees Australia tried to offshore are still its responsibility', Forbes, 31 October 2017 C. Higgins, 'Australia's long history of offshore detention', The Interpreter, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, 5 September 2017 C. Hi
- Social Media
- @higginsCM
- Country Focus
- Australia
- Expertise by Geography
- Australia
- Expertise by Chronology
- Expertise by Topic
- Migration & Immigration
