By Scientia Professor Jane McAdam

Media

McAdam J, 2025, 'Forced to Leave Your Home because of Climate Change', ABC, https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/climate-refugees-rising-sea-levels/105008224

McAdam J, 2025, ‘Climate Refugees Exist, but the Law Struggles to See Them’, ABC Radio National, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/climate-refugees-tuvalu-fiji-kiribati/104929524S

McAdam J, 2025, ‘Climate Impacts Are Forcing People from Their Homes. When, How and Why Do They Have Valid Refugee Claims?’, https://theconversation.com/climate-impacts-are-forcing-people-from-their-homes-when-how-and-why-do-they-have-valid-refugee-claims-248865

McAdam J, 2025, LA Fires Starkly Show How Impacts of Climate Change Discriminate, https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/la-fires-starkly-show-how-impacts-of-climate-change-discriminate/

McAdam J, 2024, Confiscating Phones, Separating Families: The Three Brutal Immigration Bills Being Rushed through Parliament, https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/confiscating-phones-separating-families-the-three-brutal-immigration-bills-being-rushed-through-parliament/

Jefferies R; McAdam J, 2024, An Australian Framework for Ensuring Protection in Humanitarian Emergencies, https://www.asyluminsight.com/australian-framework-for-ensuring-protection-in-humanitarian-emergencies

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2024, The Pressing Case for a New Emergency Visa to Help People Fleeing Gaza and Other Conflicts, https://theconversation.com/the-pressing-case-for-a-new-emergency-visa-to-help-people-fleeing-gaza-and-other-conflicts-238877

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2024, Dutton, Gaza and Why We Need an Emergency Protection Framework, https://johnmenadue.com/dutton-gaza-and-why-we-need-an-emergency-protection-framework/

McAdam J, 2024, Expanding Refugee Protection for a Changing Climate, https://360info.org/expanding-refugee-protection-for-a-changing-climate/

McAdam J; Ghezelbash D; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2024, The Consequences of the Government’s New Migration Legislation Could Be Dire – For Individuals and for Australia, https://theconversation.com/the-consequences-of-the-governments-new-migration-legislation-could-be-dire-for-individuals-and-for-australia-226713

McAdam J, 2024, How the ICJ Could Shape Protection for People Displaced in the context of Climate Change, https://researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/how-the-icj-could-shape-protection-for-people-displaced-in-the-context-of-climate-change/

McAdam J; Wood T, 2023, A Different Kind of Climate Movement: The Kaldor Centre Principles on Climate Mobility, https://johnmenadue.com/a-different-kind-of-climate-movement-the-kaldor-centre-principles-on-climate-mobility-pic/

McAdam J, 2023, Australia’s Offer of Climate Migration to Tuvalu Residents is Groundbreaking – and Could Be a Lifeline Across the Pacific, https://theconversation.com/australias-offer-of-climate-migration-to-tuvalu-residents-is-groundbreaking-and-could-be-a-lifeline-across-the-pacific-217514

McAdam J; Saul B, 2023, ‘Gaza is being strangled’: why Israel’s evacuation order violates international law, https://theconversation.com/gaza-is-being-strangled-why-israels-evacuation-order-violates-international-law-215787

Ghezelbash D; McAdam J, 2023, Why the Government’s Plan to Overhaul the Asylum System is a Smart Use of Resources – and Might Just Work, https://theconversation.com/why-the-governments-plan-to-overhaul-the-asylum-system-is-a-smart-use-of-resources-and-might-just-work-215061

McAdam J, 2023, Maui after Fire Illustrates Need to Plan for Longer-Term Disaster Displacement, https://www.justsecurity.org/87978/maui-after-fire-illustrates-need-to-plan-for-longer-term-disaster-displacement/

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

McAdam J, 2022, Should They Stay or Find Another Home? First, Talk to the Flood Victims, https://www.smh.com.au/national/should-they-stay-or-find-another-home-first-talk-to-the-flood-victims-20221102-p5bv3p.html

McAdam J, 2022, We Have an Opportunity to Hit Refresh on Refugee Policy, https://www.theage.com.au/national/we-have-an-opportunity-to-hit-refresh-on-refugee-policy-20220530-p5apps.html;

McAdam J, 2022, Evacuations: Sometimes the Real Disaster Is What Happens After, https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/evacuations-sometimes-the-real-disaster-is-what-happens-after-20220320-p5a6b2.html

McAdam J, 2022, Europe triggers 'temporary protection' for Ukraine war refugees, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/europe-triggers-temporary-protection-ukraine-war-refugees

McAdam J, 2021, Protecting People Who Lose Their Homes to Climate Change, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/protecting-people-who-lose-their-homes-climate-change

McAdam J; Bashford A; Jefferies R, 2021, Will NSW’s Opening Up to International Travel Lead to Internal Borders Closing Down?, https://johnmenadue.com/will-nsws-opening-up-to-international-travel-lead-to-internal-borders-closing-down/

McAdam J, 2021, Millions of People were Evacuated during Disasters Last Year: The Rising Human Cost of Climate Change, https://theconversation.com/millions-of-people-were-evacuated-during-disasters-last-year-another-rising-cost-of-climate-change-170105

McAdam J; Jefferies R; Hicks L, 2021, The Federal Government Just Made It Even Harder for Australians Overseas to Come Home. Is This Legal? Or Reasonable?, https://theconversation.com/the-federal-government-just-made-it-even-harder-for-australians-overseas-to-come-home-is-this-legal-or-reasonable-165744

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2021, Hard to See the Reasoning Behind New Rules for Australian Expats, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hard-to-see-the-reasoning-behind-new-rules-for-australian-expats-20210808-p58gwk.html

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2021, Who’s Being Allowed to Leave Australia during COVID? FOI Data Show It Is Murky and Arbitrary, https://theconversation.com/whos-being-allowed-to-leave-australia-during-covid-foi-data-show-it-is-murky-and-arbitrary-163725

McAdam J; Jefferies R, 2021, Bring Them Home: Both the Law and Moral Duty Demand We Don’t Leave Australians Stranded in India, https://www.smh.com.au/national/bring-them-home-both-the-law-and-moral-duty-demand-we-don-t-leave-australians-stranded-in-india-20210428-p57n5e.html

McAdam J, 2021, As Biden Seeks Answers on Climate’s Impact on Migration, Sydney Declaration Provides Legal Ground Rules for Action, https://www.justsecurity.org/74802/as-biden-seeks-answers-on-climates-impact-on-migration-sydney-declaration-provides-legal-ground-rules-for-action/

McAdam J, 2021, Should Aussies Stranded Overseas Go to the United Nations for Help to Get Home?, https://theconversation.com/should-aussies-stranded-overseas-go-to-the-united-nations-for-help-to-get-home-154372

McAdam J; Martin L, 2020, Australia “Stopped the Boats” but What Happened to the Refugees Who Reached Its Shores?, https://www.justsecurity.org/73868/australia-stopped-the-boats-but-what-happened-to-the-refugees-who-reached-its-shores/

McAdam J; Saul B, 2020, Under Human Rights Law, Australia Runs out of Excuses for Leaving Citizens Stranded Overseas, https://www.smh.com.au/national/under-human-rights-law-australia-runs-out-of-excuses-for-leaving-citizens-stranded-overseas-20201210-p56mc6.html

McAdam J; Pryke J, 2020, Preparing for When Climate Change Drives People from Their Homes, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/preparing-when-climate-change-drives-people-their-homes

McAdam J; Pryke J, 2020, An Australian Model to Address Climate-Related Displacement: How to Flatten the Curve, https://www.justsecurity.org/73003/an-australian-model-to-address-climate-related-displacement-how-to-flatten-the-curve/

McAdam J; Pryke J, 2020, We Can No Longer Ignore the Threats Facing the Pacific: We Need to Support More Migration to Australia, https://theconversation.com/we-can-no-longer-ignore-the-threats-facing-the-pacific-we-need-to-support-more-migration-to-australia-148530

McAdam J; Gleeson M, 2020, Australia's offshore asylum centres have been a cruel disaster. They must not be replicated by the UK, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/02/australias-offshore-asylum-centres-have-been-a-cruel-disaster-they-must-not-be-replicated-by-the-uk

McAdam J, 2020, Policing the borders, https://insidestory.org.au/policing-the-borders/

McAdam J, 2020, The Twin Calamities of Climate Change and COVID-19, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/twin-calamities-climate-change-and-covid-19

McAdam J, 2020, The Impacts of COVID-19 on the World’s Displaced People: A Watching Brief, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/publication/impacts-covid-19-world%E2%80%99s-displaced-people-watching-brief

McAdam J, 2020, Climate refugees cannot be forced back home, https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-refugees-cannot-be-forced-back-home-20200119-p53sp4.html

McAdam J, 2020, The Policy Problems of Fleeing Disaster, https://www.policyforum.net/the-policy-problems-of-fleeing-disaster/

McAdam J, 2019, An evidence-based refugee policy agenda, https://johnmenadue.com/jane-mcadam-an-evidence-based-refugee-policy-agenda/

McAdam J, 2019, Australia's chance to turn with the tide: Enabling safe, orderly and dignified movement, Asia & the Pacific Policy Society, https://www.policyforum.net/australias-chance-to-turn-with-the-tide/

McLaren M; McAdam J; Luetz JM, 2015, Climate Refugees: The Communities Displaced by Global Warming; 4:24 mins., the guardian, Maldives/Sydney, http://gu.com/p/4ba7t/sbl

McAdam J, 2013, Caught between Homelands

McAdam J; Loughry M, 2009, We Aren’t Refugees, http://inside.org.au/we-arent-refugees/

Preprints

Foster M; McAdam J; Wadley D, 2017, Part One: The Protection of Stateless Persons in Australian Law — The Rationale for a Statelessness Determination Procedure, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3368661

Foster M; McAdam J; Wadley D, 2017, Part Two: The Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness in Australia — An Ongoing Challenge, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3367970

Other

McAdam J, 2026, ‘Mobility Provisions in Recent Australia–Pacific Bilateral Agreements’, https://devpolicy.org/mobility-provisions-in-recent-australia-pacific-bilateral-agreements-20260911/

McAdam J, 2026, ‘At a Time of Harder Borders and “Ruthless” Rhetoric, the Refugee Convention Is More Important Than Ever’, https://theconversation.com/at-a-time-of-harder-borders-and-ruthless-rhetoric-the-refugee-convention-is-more-important-than-ever-287478

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