Submission 38 - Temporary Migration

Abstract

As the Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, Jane McAdam provided a short submission to the Senate Select Committee on Temporary Migration.

One of the Kaldor Centre’s areas of expertise is mobility in the context of climate change and disasters. In particular, their work examines how well-constructed temporary migration schemes – as one component of a comprehensive migration programme – can provide a safety valve for people who wish to diversify their livelihoods but not move permanently elsewhere, especially where they enable circular mobility. The submission below focuses on this issue.

Keywords: temporary migration, mobility, climate change, disasters, Pacific, COVID-19, exploitation