By Scientia Professor Jane McAdam

Media

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, 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, Part Two: The Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness in Australia — An Ongoing Challenge, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3367970

Other

McAdam J, 2025, How the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Addresses Displacement, International Protection and Ongoing Statehood, https://researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/how-the-icjs-advisory-opinion-on-climate-change-addresses-displacement-international-protection-and-ongoing-statehood/

Wood T; McAdam J, 2025, Submission to the Secretary-General’s 2025 Report on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

Mulder T; Jefferies R; McAdam J, 2025, 'Is There a Duty to Repatriate in International Law?', https://www.ejiltalk.org/is-there-a-duty-to-repatriate-in-international-law/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=ejil-talk-newsletter-post-title_2

Jolly S; Ahmad N; Scott M (eds.), 2024, ‘Foreword’, Springer

McAdam J; Scissa C, 2024, ‘How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the context of Climate Change and Disasters’, https://www.ejiltalk.org/how-domestic-courts-are-using-international-refugee-law-and-human-rights-law-in-the-context-of-climate-change-and-disasters/

Ghezelbash D; Talbot A; McAdam J; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2024, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Migration Amendment Bill 2024, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/submissions/2024-11-migration-bill-cth.pdf

McAdam J, 2024, A new emergency visa for Australia?, https://devpolicy.org/a-new-emergency-visa-for-australia-20241002/

McAdam J; Ghezelbash D; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2024, Written evidence to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Response to Questions on Notice from Senator Paul Scarr, https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/law/kaldor/resources/2024-04-submission/2024-04-answers-to-questions-on-notice-senator-paul-scarr-migration-amendment-removal-and-other-measures-Bill.pdf

McAdam J, 2024, Submission No 3 to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on the Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union, https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=05822f90-3479-4607-9c6d-8528b841834f&subId=754682

McAdam J, 2024, Kaldor Centre Explainer: Three Things to Know about Displacement from Gaza, https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2024/04/kaldor-centre-explainer-3-things-to-know-about-displacement-in-gaza

McAdam J; Ghezelbash D; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2024, Submission No 11 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the Migration Amendment (Removals and Other Measures) Bill 2024, https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=8b212e6c-9d87-4966-bf48-64f157fa446d&subId=754147

McAdam J; Ghezelbash D; Gleeson M; Harley T, 2024, Kaldor Centre statement on new migration bill, https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2024/03/Kaldor-Centre-statement-deportation-bill

McAdam J; Goodwin-Gill G, 2023, Israel–Hamas 2023 Symposium: Refugee Law, Lieber Institute, West Point, https://lieber.westpoint.edu/refugee-law/

McAdam J; Wood T, 2023, Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concerning its Analytical Study on the Impact of Loss and Damage from the Adverse Effects of Climate Change on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights

McAdam J; Gleeson M; Tamara W, 2023, Meet the editors: How to get published in the International Journal of Refugee Law, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4jgFR6lKjI&ab_channel=UNSWKaldorCentreforInternationalRefugeeLaw

McAdam J, 2023, Amid Global Warning of 'Exodus', Pacific Countries Lead the Way on Mobility Responses, https://researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces/amid-global-warning-of-exodus-pacific-countries-lead-the-way-on-mobility-responses/

McAdam J, 2020, A Watching Brief on the Impacts of COVID-19 on the World’s Displaced People, Oxford University Press (OUP)

Gleeson M; McAdam J; Goodwin-Gill G; Foster M; Saul B, 2019, Submission No 7 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee on the Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2019 [Provisions]

McAdam J; Saul B; Foster M; Gleeson M, 2016, Submission No 1 to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Inquiry into the Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2016 [Provisions], https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/Migration%20Legislation%20Amendment%20(Regional%20Processing%20Cohort)%20Bill%202016%20Provisions_Submission_Final%20SENT.pdf

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