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Dr Nikolas Feith Tan is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, specializing in international refugee law, human rights law, and asylum governance. He holds dual roles as Senior Protection Officer at UNHCR and Visiting Professor at the MOBILE Centre, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on externalization of asylum, temporary protection frameworks, and the legal implications of third-country agreements.
He has published widely on topics including EU asylum policy, refugee externalization, and the UN Global Compact on Refugees. Notable works include Transnational Asylum, proposing a cooperative framework for state asylum processing. He also serves on the board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and contributes to the Refugee Law Initiative at the University of London.
His scholarship critically examines how states balance legal obligations with migration control, particularly in cases like the UK-Rwanda asylum partnership and Denmark's offshore processing proposals. Recent work addresses the ripple effects of externalization on refugee safety and the EU's role in global asylum governance.
Tan previously served as Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and co-convenes the Declaration on International Protection. His expertise spans community sponsorship programs, offshore detention accountability, and the intersection of human rights in migration control.
