By Dr Claire Higgins

Books

Higgins CM, 2017, Asylum by Boat: origins of Australia's refugee policy, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney

Book Chapters

Higgins C, 2023, 'Departure by Diplomacy: a History of Refugee Resettlement Offers between Australia and the United States', in When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 201 - 220, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350355514.ch-011

Higgins C, 2019, 'In-Country Programs', in Juss SS (ed.), Research Handbook on International Refugee Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-international-refugee-law-9780857932808.html

Higgins C, 2019, 'In-country programs: the procedure and politics of an additional pathway to protection', in Juss SS (ed.), RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW, EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, pp. 44 - 56, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000631624400005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Higgins CM, 2016, 'The (un-)sustainability of Australia’s offshore processing and settlement policy', in Moreno-Lax V; Papastavridis E (ed.), Boat Refugees and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights, Brill, http://www.brill.com/products/book/boat-refugees-and-migrants-sea-comprehensive-approach

Higgins C, 2007, 'The relationship between textile and clothing workers and their trade unions', in The Time of Their Lives: the eight hour day and working life, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne, pp. 123 - 135

Journal articles

Tani Bertuol M; Wang B; Baker S; Higgins C; Cousins S; Cheng Z; Jack VA, 2023, 'Refugees as skilled migrants: insights from Australia’s 2018 employer-sponsored refugee migration pilot', Social Indicators Research: an international and interdisciplinary journal for quality-of-life measurement, 170, pp. 323 - 338, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-023-03130-9

Higgins C, 2022, 'Australia's Refugee Resettlement Agreement with the United States: The Diplomacy and Uncertainty of a “Very Big Deal”', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 68, pp. 197 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12729

Tani Bertuol M; Baker S; Higgins C; Cousins S, 2022, 'Refugees are a valuable but overlooked economic resource, and it is time to update our approach to migration', The Australian Economic Review, 55, pp. 273 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12467

Higgins C, 2018, 'Revisiting Reception', History Australia, 15, pp. 834 - 835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2018.1515588

Betts J; Higgins C, 2017, 'The Sri Lankan Civil War and Australia's Migration Policy Response: A Historical Case Study with Contemporary Implications', Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 4, pp. 272 - 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/app5.181

Higgins C, 2016, 'New Evidence on refugee status determination in Australia, 1978-1983', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 35, pp. 71 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdw008

Higgins CM, 2016, 'Status determination of Indochinese boat arrivals: a balancing act in Australia', Journal of Refugee Studies, pp. 89 - 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fev036

Higgins C, 2014, 'Australia's little known in-country programme in latin America', Refugee Survey Quarterly, 33, pp. 8 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdt021

Conference Presentations

Higgins C, 2020, 'Between Humanitarianism and Closure: International Refugee Policies since the Late 1970s - Australia', presented at American Historical Association annual meeting, New York, 03 January 2020 - 06 January 2020, https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/start.html

Higgins C, 2019, 'Complementary pathways for admission under the GCR: a study of in-country processing and protected entry procedures', presented at UNHCR GCR Academic Interdisciplinary Network, Geneva, 13 November 2019 - 13 November 2019

Higgins C, 2019, 'Opening the embassy doors', presented at Australian Historical Association annual conference, University of Southern Queensland, 08 July 2019 - 12 July 2019, https://www.theaha.org.au/aha-conference-2019-local-communities-global-networks/

Higgins C, 2018, 'How Italy's Humanitarian Corridors have created pathways to protection in Europe', presented at Liechtenstein Institute on Self-determination at Princeton University, Princeton University, 19 April 2018 - 19 April 2018, https://lisd.princeton.edu/events/how-italys-humanitarian-corridors-have-created-pathways-protection-europe

Higgins C, 2018, 'How Italy's Humanitarian Corridors have created pathways to protection in Europe', presented at International Conference on Refugee Policies and Refugee Movements, UCLA, 16 February 2018 - 16 February 2018, http://www.international.ucla.edu/migration/event/12963

Higgins C, 2018, 'How Italy's Humanitarian Corridors have created pathways to protection in Europe', presented at CCIS Seminar Series, University of California San Diego, 14 February 2018 - 14 February 2018, https://ccis.ucsd.edu/_files/Event%20Flyers-Programs-Agendas/Claire_Higgins_Publisher.pdf

Higgins CM, 2016, 'The merits of in-country processing: lessons from Canadian and Australian refugee policy history', presented at Global Histories of Refugees in the 20th and 21st Centuries, University of Melbourne, 06 October 2016 - 08 October 2016

Higgins CM, 2016, 'Pathway to protection or control measure? Historical research on in-country processing', presented at Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Poznan, Poland, 12 July 2016 - 15 July 2016

Higgins CM, 2016, 'Is there a future for in-country processing? Evidence from United States, Canadian and Australian history', presented at Refugee Law Initiative First Annual Conference, University of London, 29 June 2016 - 01 July 2016

Higgins CM, 2016, 'Australia’s in-country programs: a new perspective on the Department of Immigration’s approach to refugee policy and its relationship with Foreign Affairs', presented at Symposium: The Commonwealth Department of Immigration: Then and Now, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 19 February 2016 - 19 February 2016

Higgins CM, 2015, 'Australian refugee policy: a means to what end?', presented at Comparative Asylum Conference, UC San Diego, 30 November 2015 - 30 November 2015

Higgins CM, 2015, 'Towards a new understanding of the Fraser government’s refugee policy', presented at Australian Historical Association annual conference, University of Sydney, 08 July 2015 - 09 July 2015

Higgins CM, 2014, 'A politically sensitive rescue mission: Australia's little known in-country program', presented at Between Principle and Pragmatism: Australia and Refugee Law, 60 Years On, UNSW, 03 November 2014 - 03 November 2014

Higgins CM, 2014, 'The cost and the controversy of Australia's Operation Sovereign Borders', presented at Centre for Refugee Studies seminar, York University, Toronto, 01 October 2014 - 01 October 2014

Higgins CM, 2014, 'Operation Sovereign Borders: a sustainable policy approach?', presented at 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights, University of London, 23 June 2014 - 24 June 2014

Reports

Higgins C, 2023, Submission to the Independent Review into the Afghan Locally Engaged Employee (LEE) Program

Higgins C; Fee M, 2021, The risks of 'in-country' processing: an assessment of the US Central American Minors Program, https://wrmcouncil.org/publications/research-paper/the-risks-of-in-country-processing/

McAdam J; Goodwin-Gill G; Gleeson M; Higgins C; Pillai S; Hodgson N; Yacoub N, 2021, Submission on the Nationality and Borders Bill 2021, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/House_Commons_Nationality_Borders_%20Bill_October_2021.pdf

Higgins C; Goodwin-Gill G, 2021, Committee inquiry into Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Kaldor_Centre_Submission_Senate_inquiry_Australia%27s_engagement_in_Afghanistan_8_Oct_2021.pdf

Higgins C, 2020, Protecting Refugees and Australia's Interests, ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, http://sdsc.bellschool.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publications/attachments/2020-03/cog_51_web.pdf

Higgins C, 2019, Safe Journeys and Sound Policy: Expanding Protected Entry for Refugees, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Policy Brief no. 8, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/Policy_Brief_8_Protected_Entry.pdf

Wood T; Higgins C, 2018, Special humanitarian intakes: enhancing protection through targeted refugee resettlement, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW, Sydney, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/policy-brief-7-special-humanitarian-intakes-enhancing-protection-through-targeted

McAdam J; Appleby G; Higgins C, 2015, Migration Amendment (Maintaining the Good Order of Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2015, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law; Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Sydney, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/submission%20Migration%20Amendment%20Maintaining%20the%20Good%20Order%20of%20Immigration%20Detention%20Facilities%20Bill%202015.pdf

Higgins CM; Douglas B; Keski-Nummi A; McAdam J; McLeod T, 2014, Beyond the Boats: Building an Asylum and Refugee Policy for the Long Term

Higgins C, 2009, Offshore refugees: settlement experiences of humanitarian arrivals in Australia, Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28883349?selectedversion=NBD44665838

Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Higgins CM, 2014, ‘Australia should resume processing refugees in their own countries’, Sydney Morning Herald, Published: 03 November 2014, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Higgins CM, 2014, ‘International legal obligations once shaped our refugee policy’, http://johnmenadue.com/blog/?p=2592, Published: 23 October 2014, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works

Media

McAdam J; Barbour B; Higgins C; Ghezelbash D; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2023, Our cruel and costly offshore processing system was a failure. We have a better solution on asylum policy, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/our-cruel-and-costly-offshore-processing-system-was-a-failure-we-have-a-better-solution-on-asylum-policy-210378?mc_cid=f96ddce084&mc_eid=ba540188ba

Higgins C; Jefferies R, 2022, With Australia reopening its borders to tourists, why are thousands of refugees still waiting for entry?, https://theconversation.com/with-australia-reopening-its-borders-to-tourists-why-are-thousands-of-refugees-still-waiting-for-entry-175319

Higgins C, 2021, There’s a way to get refugees out of Afghanistan after this week’s deadline — if the Taliban agrees, https://theconversation.com/theres-a-way-to-get-refugees-out-of-afghanistan-after-this-weeks-deadline-if-the-taliban-agrees-166739

Higgins C, 2021, Afghan refugees can no longer wait — Australia must offer permanent protection now, https://theconversation.com/afghan-refugees-can-no-longer-wait-australia-must-offer-permanent-protection-now-166180

Higgins C, 2021, Resettling refugees in other countries is not reliable, nor is it fair. So, why is Australia doing it?, https://theconversation.com/resettling-refugees-in-other-countries-is-not-reliable-nor-is-it-fair-so-why-is-australia-doing-it-162505

Higgins C, 2021, Immigration Detention Budget, https://radioadelaide.org.au/program/breakfast-on-radio-adelaide/2021-05-17/

Higgins C, 2021, ‘With billions more allocated to immigration detention, it’s another bleak year for refugees’, https://theconversation.com/with-billions-more-allocated-to-immigration-detention-its-another-bleak-year-for-refugees-160783

Higgins C, 2021, ‘Refugee resettlement and the remaking of America’s image abroad’, https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/2021/02/03/refugee-resettlement-and-the-remaking-of-americas-image-abroad/

Higgins C, 2021, Could the Biden administration pressure Australia to adopt more humane refugee policies?, https://theconversation.com/could-the-biden-administration-pressure-australia-to-adopt-more-humane-refugee-policies-153718

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