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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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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unauthorised arrivals‚ it is the only country to mandatory detain children. (Keks‚ 2013) This movement is widely criticised 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
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them .This essay will then compare and contrast the nineteenth century asylums to the representation in the Magdalen Sisters film from 2002. It will compare the two centuries of asylums to see whether they were built for the purpose of profit ‚ also it will look at whether the women entered and left the asylum of their own free will . Finally it will explore the day to day running of the Magdalen Asylums and how the asylums performed as a function for Irish society. The first Magdalen Laundry
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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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such as the differential treatment of asylum seekers based on how they arrived in Australia or apply for protection‚ the Pacific and Malaysian solution‚ the detention of asylum seekers and combating the view that boat arrivals are not ‘genuine refugees’. Although there are many other concerns‚ the issues listed above are the major ones. In the first instance‚ refugee right groups are trying to minimize the difference in the way onshore and offshore asylum seekers are processed. Currently‚ under
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by Derrida‚ in dialogue with the notion of what it means to be a political refugee‚ grounding these two ideas in a sense of the political climate of the novel at Gurnah’s time of writing. By showing how post-colonial issues intersect with those of asylum‚ the essay will ultimately aim to show how the novel depicts the possibility of (re)constructing a home in a foreign land. The implication of Omar’s meeting with Ken Edelman is twofold. Not only can it be read in terms of Derrida’s understanding
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through panic and trepidation that has festered through the conglomeration of the masses of migrants and with the actors pulling the strings behind the system of migrations. These actors fuel the current discourse of the migrant‚ refugee‚ or potential asylum member. In other words‚ the media‚ politicians‚ and devout bureaucracies have seized upon the migrant‚ creating the migration industry to project the migrant as a dehumanized‚ unknown‚ and potentially dangerous entity that is abounded within a wave
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of the discussions and arguments sparked by the author. Whether intentional or not however‚ this book was published at a very pivotal era in the politics of race and racism in Britain. In 1993‚ the Asylum and Immigration (Appeals) Act came into place‚ allowing a greater number of political asylum seekers to be considered for immigration. This led Race and Racism in Britain being a book very relevant to the times in which it was set‚ making it a very useful and necessary book for those planning
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countries‚ as well as military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. The essay will argue that the needs of refugees do make border protection a futile undertaking‚ as asylum seeker’s desperation to reach a safe haven ensures that they will ultimately find a way. It will discuss the conditions refugees encounter in countries of first asylum. Additionally‚ it will examine the evidence of obstacles to ‘legal’ entry pathways. Furthermore‚ it will address the largest criticism of refugees that enter host
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