Refugee family reunion: What might have been. (September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Taylor, Savitri
• Is Part Of: Alternative law journal. Volume 43:Number 3(2018)
• Page Start: 209
• Page End: 215
• Publication Date: 2018-09
• Subjects: Family reunion -- Australian migration programmes -- Australian migration law -- international human rights and refugee law -- legal history; Law -- Australia -- Periodicals; Law -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Periodicals; Law reform -- Australia -- Periodicals; 349.94
• DOI: 10.1177/1037969X18790030
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1037-969X

Abstract

This article demonstrates that many refugees in Australia are deliberately denied a realistic prospect of achieving family reunion. It then explains why, in cases not involving child refugees in Australia, Australia has significant room to deny any international obligation to enable refugee family reunion. Finally, it discusses what might have been, if international legal history had played out a little differently.