other minority groups such as Muslims‚ the Arabic and the Lebanese communities‚ so too have they done so with asylum seekers. Issues surrounding asylum seekers are almost always represented as a part of national debate surrounding issues of policy. Common media narratives include that asylum seekers are a strain on Australia resources‚ Australian jobs will be lost to foreign ‘invaders‚’ asylum seekers are ‘queue jumpers’ and the incoming persons pose the threat to national security (Pickering‚ 2001)
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Intro: Mental Asylums have the connotation of being spooky and weird but there really is so much more to them - they help people. There is a mental illness called Schizophrenia and it causes people to hallucinate and “hear” different people who don’t actually exist. Europeans and Americans had different types of mental homes that were ran with different mindsets but overall the european homes were better for people with schizophrenia in the 1800s and it is important that the patients were taken
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Asylum Seeker In today’s society we are safe; we can go outside and not have any worries about our safety. In Australia we have the freedom of speech; we have the right to elect our Prime Ministers. And we are very fortunate that we live in Australia and yet we all seem to take it for granted‚ is that because we are naive or just stupid? We Australians are a multicultural‚ we have different types of races in different suburbs in different cities‚ and yet we act like we all share the same views
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No Child’s Play: Children in Immigration Detention Asylum seekers become an increasingly controversial topic not just in Australia‚ but also around the world. Asylum seekers are people who flee their homeland in order to find safety from dangerous circumstances that are out of their control (Australian Human Rights Commission‚ 2014). On arrival in or near Australian land‚ these peace seekers are detained until their claims can be legally processed and they are either granted an Australian visa or
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political policy of the Victorians. County asylums were the recommendation of a House of Commons select committee‚ which had been set up in 1807 to enquire into the state of lunatic- Legislations in support of the establishment of asylums followed‚ including Wynn’s Act of 1808 for the better care and maintenance of lunatics‚ being paupers or criminals and the Shaftesbury Acts of 1845 for the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics. Most asylums were built on the outskirts of major cities
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by rights groups and the UN. A church group even describe it as "state-sanctioned child abuse". They treat children and other asylum seekers in the same way. Children are facing the long processing time without adequate access to schooling and other special services. They are held in some closed detention facilities or detention centres with poor condition for prolonged periods. There are also many class actions filed in Supreme Court‚ prosecute Australian government didn’t protect the right of children
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The New Asylum Watching the documentary‚ the New Asylum opened my eyes a lot. I have heard the saying‚ “prisons are the new asylum” plenty of times‚ but I did not believe it to be true until watching the documentary. Before watching it I always viewed the prison system as a very harsh and coercive place‚ but now I see how much it help people with mental illness. If it wasn’t for the prison system some people would not have a place for treatment. I believe if the government had better funding there
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My research topic will discuss women refugees seeking asylum in Europe and the difficulties they face both along the way to and in Europe. When women refugees leave their homelands‚ they believe they have left the hostility and danger behind‚ yet they still face several hardships‚ such as gender-based violence‚ sexual harassment‚ rape‚ exploitation‚ and insufficient or no health care‚ on their way to refuge. Women refugees make up 80% of the refugee population‚ yet most do not successfully make it
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Indonesia over how to deal with asylum seekers. 10Jan14 Prisoner transport to match shipping container cells. The Victorian Government’s plan to use shipping containers as prison cells to alleviate prison overcrowding. 8Jan14 Frosty weather. A look at both the freezing weather in America and the cool relations between Australia and Indonesia over asylum seekers. The feud between Australia and Indonesia over how to deal with asylum seekers. 10Jan14 Prisoner
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regarding the topic of asylum seekers are not nearly up to par with other countries. Australia‚ generally‚ treats the people who seek refuge in the country very poorly in comparison to other nations. It is important to note that seeking asylum is not‚ in fact‚ illegal. Human beings have the right to seek asylum in the event of political strife or fear of unjust persecution; this is outlined in the agreement set out in the 1951 United Nations Convention‚ an international human rights treaty. From a legal
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