Citizenship and Government - Projects
An Australian History of Deportation
Glenn Nicholls
This project examines the important role of deportation in Australian
history from colonial Australia’s establishment as a penal colony
to current policies towards unlawful non-citizens. Today Australia is
a determined deporter, with a high deportation rate relative to population
size. Yet there have been moments in Australian history when officials
have used deportation sparingly and flexibly. This project brings these
moments to light and argues that they offer alternatives to today’s
mandatory policies. These alternatives are desperately needed to negotiate
the tension between national sovereignty and international human rights
standards.
The main project outcome, Deported: A History of Forced Departures from Australia, was published by UNSW Press in late 2007.
Other publications
In an article for the Age, How
Australia Reversed the Burden of Proof, Glenn Nicholls described the absence of judicial checks on
Australia’s system of mandatory
removal.
In a
submission to the 2005 Senate Inquiry into the
Administration and Operation of the Migration Act
1958 (PDF
file), Glenn Nicholls examined two problems related
to removal and deportation: the lack of independent
review of removal actions by the Department of
Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs,
and the recent practice of cancelling the visas
of long-term residents without citizenship who
are convicted of criminal offences, making them
unlawful non-citizens liable to removal.
In a June 2006 seminar paper, Glenn Nicholls surveys One
Hundred Years of Australian Deportation (PDF file)
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