Savitri Taylor

La Trobe University, La Trobe Law School, Adjunct

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I am an Adjunct Professor at La Trobe Law School. My area of research interest is refugee law and asylum policy at the national, regional and international level. A full list of my publications is available on my La Trobe University profile page https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/staylor The abstracts and/or full text of most of my scholarly publications are available for down load on my SSRN author page http://ssrn.com/author=865259. Twitter: @SavitriTaylor
Email: [email protected].

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Shaping Norms: Australia, G.J.L. Coles, and the Evolution of the UN Refugee Agency’s Repatriation Culture

Australian Journal of Politics and HIstory, 2024

The emergence in the 1990s of voluntary repatriation as a significant new norm in the United Nati... more The emergence in the 1990s of voluntary repatriation as a significant new norm in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) practice in refugee protection is often represented as something of an inevitability. Numerous scholars have suggested that the growth at UNHCR of a “repatriation culture” throughout the 1980s was principally the result of the increasing pressures of mass influx events alongside the challenges of dwindling resources and states’ demands for durable solutions to successive refugee crises. In this article, we argue that these challenges offer only a partial explanation for UNHCR’s turn from the cold war “exilic bias” of the international protection regime, towards the post-cold war prioritisation of repatriation. We suggest that states such as Australia, deeply concerned with the long-term outcomes of refugee flows in the late 1970s and 1980s, worked in tandem with key individuals who helped to shape the normative landscape of international protection. We identify GJL Coles as one such individual and offer a close analysis of his influence on key statements concerning voluntary repatriation throughout the 1980s. By making visible the entangled contributions of Australia and Coles, we add a hitherto missing strand to the story of how the “repatriation culture” at UNHCR, and the human rights discourse that accompanied it, emerged.

The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network and the Promotion of Refugee Rights in Southeast Asia

Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Humanitarianism and Sovereignty, 2025

This chapter discusses how the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) has contributed to the... more This chapter discusses how the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) has contributed to the advancement of refugee rights in Southeast Asia up to the end of 2021 and whether it has the organizational capacity to make a continuing contribution. In doing so, it furthers the book’s investigation of the impact of nonstate actors on refugee protection in Southeast Asia.

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