About the authors THE EDITORS Mary Crock has worked in the area of immigration and refugee law since 1985. She is Professor of Public Law in the University of Sydney’s Law School. Co-founder in 1989 of the specialist community legal service now known as Refugee Legal in Melbourne, Victoria, she has been recognized as an Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law since 1994. She has served on a variety of national, state and NGO bodies relating to immigration, refugees, disability and child protection. She has written extensively on issues related to immigration and refugee law, authoring 13 books and over 75 book chapters and refereed articles. Mary has had a research focus on the laws, policies and practices involving migrant children since 2004, working with Jacqueline Bhabha on the three-country ‘Seeking Asylum Alone’ Project and later on the Australian-based ‘Small Mercies, Big Futures’ Project. Her most recent book (with L. Smith-Khan, B. Saul and R.C. McCallum) is The Legal Protection of Refugees with Disabilities: Forgotten and Invisible? (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017). Lenni B. Benson is a Professor of Law at New York Law School. In 2012, she founded the Safe Passage Project, a non-profit organization that has aided over 1,500 unaccompanied youth by recruiting and mentoring pro bono counsel. She is a member of several national task forces on the needs of migrant youth, and has been a speaker for the federal government at national trainings. In 2012 she completed, with Russell Wheeler, a study of the immigration courts for the Administrative Conference of the United States. She has won many honors and served in leadership posi- tions related to her work in immigration law. Her book Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies (with L.A. Curcio, V.M. Jeffers and S.W. Yale-Loehr) was published in 2013 and is updated annually. CONTRIBUTORS Edwin Odhiambo Abuya is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Nairobi who lectures in Legal Research and Human Rights. His research viii Mary Crock and Lenni B. Benson - 9781786430267 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/29/2021 08:43:54PM via free access CROCK_9781786430250_t.indd 8 16/08/2018 10:56 About the authors ix focuses on forced migrants, statelessness, persons with disabilities and issues around access to information. His publications include a 2010 report on statelessness for Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights and UNHCR. Farrin R. Anello is a Senior Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, where she conducts litigation and advocacy to advance the rights of immigrants, Muslim Americans, and members of other vulnerable communities. She has taught at various law schools across the United States, and has supervised law students on a wide variety of immigration matters. Timnah Baker (BA/LLB Monash and LLM Boston) is a researcher at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School and Ph.D candidate Sydney Law School. From 2009–2017 she was based at Harvard University as visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Research Associate for the International Policy and Law Analysis (IMPALA) Project. Syd Bolton is a children’s human rights lawyer (solicitor, non-practising), former legal and policy officer including for Coram Children’s Legal Centre; The Children’s Legal Centre; Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture; Islington Law Centre, Wilford Monro Solicitors. He has conducted strategic litigation on children’s rights, spoken about and delivered training on the rights of children, in particular, refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children, both nationally and internationally, and was an adviser to the Children’s Commissioner for England. He is co-convenor with Catriona Jarvis of ‘The Last Rights Project’ which calls for the development of new frameworks to deal with missing and dead refugees and migrants. Kate Bones is a migration lawyer working at Refugee Legal, a specialist community legal centre in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked previ- ously as research assistant to Professor Mary Crock and Professor Ben Saul at the University of Sydney, and in the Civil Justice Program at Victoria Legal Aid. Carmelo Danisi is a Research fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, and Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Bologna, Forlì campus. He has been Endeavour Research Fellow at the Australian National University, College of Law, and is involved in the ERC SOGICA project. His research interests include human rights, especially with regard to the European system of protection, non-discrimination, migration and refugee law. Mary Crock and Lenni B. Benson - 9781786430267 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/29/2021 08:43:54PM via free access CROCK_9781786430250_t.indd 9 16/08/2018 10:56 x Protecting migrant children Daniel Ghezelbash is a senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School. His research focuses on comparative law with a particular interest in refugee and immigration law. He has a particular interest in the diffusion of restrictive asylum-seeker policies across jurisdictions. He is a practising refugee and immigration lawyer and the founder and director of the Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic. pamela goldberg is a recognized expert in international refugee, human rights and protection law and policy and has written and spoken widely on these issues. She has been in the forefront of developing law and policy for refugee claims of women and gender-based violence. Carlos Holguín is General Counsel with the Centre for Human Rights and Constitutional Law Foundation. He has over 30 years of legal experience and has litigated multiple class actions on behalf of immigrants and refugees. He currently serves as lead counsel for over 35 faith-based groups and human rights organizations in a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States challenging a joint program of the United States and Mexico to interdict and summarily deport persons, including thousands of children and fami- lies, fleeing rampant violence in Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’: Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Catriona Jarvis is a former judge of the United Kingdom Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), who retired in 2013 with 21 years’ experience as a judge in the fields of immigration, asylum and human rights law. She has extensive experience working internationally on refugee rights, especially in relation to women and children, including publications and training work with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and other organizations. She is a Trustee and former Chair of the Board of Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund; a Trustee and former Chair of the Inderpal Rahal Memorial Trust; Chair of the Unaccompanied Migrant Children’s Court Steering Group and member and former Rapporteur of The International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ, now IARMJ). She is Co-convenor with Syd Bolton of ‘The Last Rights Project’ and author of ‘In Potters’ Fields’ which addresses issues around missing and dead refugees and migrants. Kavita Kapur is an international human rights and immigration lawyer, focusing on asylum and refugee protection and migrants’ rights. She has previously been involved with UNHCR operations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Malaysia and the United States, and has volunteered in detention centres in Greece. She has been involved in litigation on behalf of migrants’ rights, both in the United States and internationally. Mary Crock and Lenni B. Benson - 9781786430267 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 09/29/2021 08:43:54PM via free access CROCK_9781786430250_t.indd 10 16/08/2018 10:56 About the authors xi Mary Anne Kenny is an Associate Professor at the School of Law at Murdoch University, Perth Western Australia. She teaches and researches in the area of refugee and immigration law. She is an adjunct Associate Professor in the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University. She is a member of the Australian Government’s Minister of Immigration Advisory Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention (MCASD). Joseph Lelliott holds an LLB(Hons)/BA from the University of Queensland. He is a doctoral candidate, undertaking a thesis examining the smuggling of unaccompanied minors. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and is particularly interested in the intersections between migrant smuggling, human trafficking and international human rights law. Maryanne Loughry is a Sister of Mercy and a psychologist and has worked in refugee work with the Jesuit Refugee Service since 1988. Dr Loughry is a visiting research scholar at the School of Social Work, Boston College, a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and a member of the Australian Government’s Minister of Immigration Advisory Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention (MCASD). Arezo Malakooti is an Australian trained lawyer, independent migration researcher and an adviser to IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre in Berlin. She is an expert on the migratory movements from North Africa to Europe and across the Mediterranean and assists European gov- ernments in designing and evaluating migration policies and programs. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Director of Migration Research at Altai Consulting. Hannah Martin completed her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 2012. She has worked as a research assistant to Professor Mary Crock and Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, AO. She now works as a solicitor, and is an Honorary Research Affiliate at the Sydney Law School. Isabel Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York. Dr Martinez is also the Director of the Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project that focuses on providing academic, social and legal support to recently arrived immigrant minors.