15 December 2022 COMPLEMENTARY PATHWAYS FOR REFUGEES AND THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA’S MIGRATION SYSTEM Joint submission to the Migration system for Australia’s future discussion paper The following submission has been drafted and endorsed by a coalition of organisations committed to extending access to safe and durable migration pathways for refugees and others in humanitarian need beyond Australia’s. [...] Complementary pathways for refugees According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), complementary pathways are ‘safe and regulated avenues for persons in need of international protection that provide for a lawful stay in a third country where the international protection needs of the beneficiaries are met’.1 Complementary pathways recognise the importance of ensuring refugee resettlement programs rema. [...] While durable solutions should be the key objective for complementary pathways, they offer many collateral benefits to receiving countries including: ▪ a way for non-traditional actors to become involved in a ‘whole of society’ approach; ▪ greater public awareness of and support for the provision of managed humanitarian migration pathways, as more actors become sensitised to refugee issues and exp. [...] How do we ensure the migration program supports Australia’s international interests? In the lead up to the Global Refugee Forum in 2023, and as Co-Chair of the Global Taskforce on Refugee Labour Mobility, it is in Australia’s international interests to lead the way in demonstrating the viability of complementary pathways for refugees by building on its existing commitments. [...] Support Program ▪ The CSP and pilot predecessors have demonstrated the willingness (ongoing) and capacity of some diaspora community members to fund and provide support to family members to resettle in Australia.
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