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Dr Claire Higgins
Dr. Claire Higgins is an historian and Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø Law. Claire is also an Affiliate Scholar at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration. She holds a doctorate in History from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Clarendon Scholar, and is the author of Asylum by Boat: Origins of Australia’s refugee policy (NewSouth, 2017).Â
Claire holds a Australian Research Council DECRA to research the history of protected entry procedures for refugees. She is also a co-CI on an Australian Research Council Linkage grant to research skilled employment for refugees in regional Australia. In 2018 Claire was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at Georgetown University undertaking comparative research on the history of the U.S. refugee admissions program.
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Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2020, ''.
Australian Research Council Linkage Project 2023, ''