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Nik Tan

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International #refugee law and policy.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Recent case law on LGBT asylum applications, summary from @euasylumagency.bsky.social lnkd.in/p/e2zjuJHj
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EUAA Jurisprudence LGBTIQ applicants | Pietro Orfei
European Union Agency for Asylum – EUAA Jurisprudence related to LGBTIQ Applicants in International Protection This fact sheet provides an overview of recent case law related to the assessment of int...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I am honoured that Transnational Asylum has won the Australia and New Zealand International Society for International Law (ANZSIL) Book Prize 2026 routledge.com/Transnationa...
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Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A Special Issue on the Refugee Convention at 75. Contributions from @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, @myrmek.bsky.social, Marina Sharpe @profjmcadam.bsky.social & Geoff Gilbert, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, @ndftan.bsky.social & Jessica Schultz. More to come! academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I am honoured that Transnational Asylum has won the Australia and New Zealand International Society for International Law (ANZSIL) Book Prize 2026 routledge.com/Transnationa...
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My book review of "Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework" by @ndftan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New: Landmark Cases in International Refugee Protection International Jurisprudence on the Rights of Refugees www.bloomsbury.com/uk/landmark-...
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Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Reommended reading!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
ICJ extends time periods in Genocide Convention case www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...
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‘Really cautious’: why the ICJ is delaying a Gaza genocide verdict
While civilians starve and global opinion hardens, judgment from international court may not come until 2027 – or later
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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In our free inaugural editorial as E-i-C w/Sarah Singer @rli-sas.bsky.social we trace 40 years of scholarship @ the #International_Journal_of_Refugee_Law (OUP) & reflect on new directions: academic.oup.com/ijrl/article... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Several alternative approaches to achieving accountability for transnational migration control have been championed in recent years by both academics and practitioners. For one example and some reflections see this collab with @ndftan.bsky.social : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core
A Topographical Approach to Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Migration Control - Volume 21 Issue 3
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The ECtHR finally decided SS v Italy; a case that has spawned dozens of scholarly articles since its submission in 2018. The outcome is highly worrying for migrant rights, but at the same time hardly surprising given the court’s previous case law on extraterritorial jurisdiction 🧵1/6 20jurisd.pdf
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's out www.routledge.com/Transnationa...
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Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework
This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how po...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
CJEU, new case, temporary protection Dutch court asks CJEU if Member States can suspend the processing of asylum applications by temporary protection beneficiaries for the entire period of temporary protection - curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's out www.routledge.com/Transnationa...
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Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework
This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how po...
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 07/05/2025
Discover this 2025 book on transnational asylum via @tandfresearch.bsky.social.
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Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework
This book presents an original framework of transnational asylum to inform future cooperation between states on asylum processing and refugee protection. The book provides scholarly guidance on how po...
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Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Less than 1 week left to the deadline for our call for article proposals for #ClimateChange: choices for displaced people! All article proposals must be submitted via the online form by 14 May, 11pm BST See: www.fmreview.org/climate-change-cfa/ #Displacement #Refugees #Migration #AcademicSky
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FMR 76 'Climate change: choices for displaced people' - Forced Migration Review
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Essential reading
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UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law @kaldorcentre.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🛑 In Australia, tens of thousands of people are waiting for asylum decisions. New piece in @theconversation.com by @danghez.bsky.social, Mia Bridle and Keyvan Dorostkar outlines 5 ways to fix it: theconversation.com/5-ways-to-ta... #RefugeeLaw #AsylumSeekers #Fairness=Efficiency #AusPol
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5 ways to tackle Australia’s backlog of asylum cases
Overall, Australia needs a fundamental shift that recognises fairness contributes to, rather than detracts from efficiency.
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Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Come and work with me! We’re hiring a new Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in international disaster law to join us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social - apply by 15 May external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
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Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow - Evacuations in International Law
Unique opportunity for a Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in international disaster law to join a world-leading research program on ‘Evacuations in International Law: Disasters, Conflict an...
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Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
FMR’s next issue on 'Dangerous Journeys’ is due out in May & then we’ll be working toward our October issue on a #ClimateChange -related theme. To be notified when issues go online & when calls for article proposals are live, sign up for email alerts at: www.fmreview.org/fmr-alerts/ #Displacement
Image caption: Untitled, painting by Abdullah Rahmani, 2020. Reproduced with the permission of the artist.

Alt-text: Painting of a group of migrants disembarking a raft in the ocean, in waist deep water close to shore. The sky is paiting with sunset colours and cloud, in the foreground is a very young man with a tyre intertube around his neck and one shoulder, walking towards us. Behind him is another man in an orange life best, and a group of people still in the raft.
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🔥Full volume out now: 'What role for law in refugee studies? Towards a transdisciplinary agenda' - our special issue in J Refugee Studies (w/ the amazing @danghez.bsky.social and Helene Lambert) academic-oup-com.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/jrs/issue/37/4 @mobileucph.bsky.social
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UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law @kaldorcentre.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📺Did you miss our speed briefing on the ground-breaking new legal toolkit on climate and disaster displacement? No worries; watch on demand. W/@profjmcadam.bsky.social, Madeline Garlick @unhcr.org and Dr Tamara Wood #climate #disasters #dispalcement #law #protection www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtHH...
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Speed briefing - Practical toolkit on climate and disaster displacement
YouTube video by UNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law
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Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thursday 6th in Oxford @refugeestudies.bsky.social, the brilliant Prof Audrey Macklin on exit. www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/no-ex...
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No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The European Court of Human Rights is now posting on here 👋🏛
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Proud to be an affiliate of the Kaldor Centre, a leading international refugee law research centre www.unsw.edu.au/kaldor-centr...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Marie Juul Petersen and I in new JEMS special issue on the temporary turn in asylum: Researching the politics of deterrence in practice ‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, alleging crimes against humanity for widespread discrimination against women and girls. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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ICC seeks arrest warrants against Taliban leaders over persecution of women
The ICC chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including Haibatullah Akhundzada, alleging crimes against humanity for widespread discrimination again...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thanks IASFM and the conference organisers for an excellent few days in Yogya
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Marie Juul Petersen and I in new JEMS special issue on the temporary turn in asylum: Researching the politics of deterrence in practice ‘You can never feel safe’: Danish revocation practice and the production of radical uncertainty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The Daily on the state of asylum in the US podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Submit your abstracts by 14th Feb for ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ @uctlaw.bsky.social with @bordercrim.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social & KCL Law with E. Tendayi Achiume, @madlingozi.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social & Siphamandla Zondi Call for papers here law.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul...
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Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Starter packs if you want to follow professionals, scholars and organisations in the field of public international law. go.bsky.app/9mPfGRg
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Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal. New from me, for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal
Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US ‘forced to remain in limbo’ in at least 36 countries, some in ‘untenable conditions’
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Yes do you want to join us for dinner on Sunday?
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In two communications, Human Rights Committee finds Australia exercises extraterritorial jurisdiction over detention facilities on Nauru M.I. et al. v Australia Nabhari v Australia www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in offshore facilities, UN Human Rights Committee finds
GENEVA - In two landmark decisions, the UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia remained responsible for the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers redirected or transferred to offshore dete...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
EUAA guidelines on community sponsorship in the EU euaa.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Looking forward to IASFM in Yogya - great conference in a great city
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The New Humanitarian: The End of Asylum 'the concept of asylum is currently under unprecedented assault, particularly in the Global North' www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
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Trends that will spur humanitarian needs in 2025
Key factors raising new challenges and likely to worsen lives for millions in crisis hotspots over the coming year.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Recent guidelines on family reunion for refugees or other people with international protection, from UNHCR @unhcr.org - www.refworld.org/policy/legal...
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UNHCR Guidelines on international legal standards relating to family reunification for refugees and other beneficiaries of international protection | Refworld
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
New and open access book: Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty Edited by Susan Kneebone, Reyvi Mariñas, Antje Missbach and Max Walden www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Kneebo...
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Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Open access edited volume from the ASILE project Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibility in the Implementation of the United Nations Global Compact on Refugees link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Madeline Garlick and I in the Externalising Asylum compendium: Moving beyond externalisation? Toward lawful cooperation on asylum externalizingasylum.info/moving-beyon...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
And accompanying academic paper published in IJRL academic.oup.com/ijrl/article...
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International Protection, Disasters and Climate Change
Environmental factors contribute significantly to human movement. Even the earliest migrations from Africa into Eurasia reflected the “push” of environment
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
2024 Refugee Law Initiative Declaration on International Protection in the context of Disasters and Climate Change www.refworld.org/legal/resolu...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
On Denmark, cessation and Syrian refugees The End of Protection: The Danish ‘Paradigm Shift’ and the Law of Cessation brill.com/view/journal...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New and open access from the brilliant Meltem Ineli-Ciger and I: Beyond Derogations in the EU Crisis Regulation Making Expedited Procedures for Manifestly Well-Founded Asylum Claims Work in Practice brill.com/view/journal...
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Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
As the year comes to a close, we invite you to revisit FMR’s 2024 issues: #Digital disruption & #displacement: www.fmreview.org/digital-disruption/ #Financing displacement response: www.fmreview.org/financing-displacement-response/ See you in 2025! #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #IDPs #Funding
Photo of FMR 73 and FMR 74 print copies on a wood veneer surface, with plants in the background.

FMR 73 cover depicts a woman in a colourful jihab, close up on her face in profile, having her eyes scanned by a white and blue scanner held by a hand we see from the right of the photo. 

FMR 74 cover depicts a pair of hands counting cash, the individual is wearing a winter jacket.
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
On Denmark, cessation and Syrian refugees The End of Protection: The Danish ‘Paradigm Shift’ and the Law of Cessation brill.com/view/journal...
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Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New and open access from the brilliant Meltem Ineli-Ciger and I: Beyond Derogations in the EU Crisis Regulation Making Expedited Procedures for Manifestly Well-Founded Asylum Claims Work in Practice brill.com/view/journal...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
New EU Commission paper on the "weaponisation" of migration ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Screenshot of the press release. Full text in the link
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