Children In Detention Centres: A Case Study

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Children in immigration detention centres have been a prevalent issue since 1992, which has affected the lives of many that are fleeing their countries to seek a better life. This issue affects the common good in unfathomable ways. Some of the happenings in the detention centres affect the dignity of not only the children in the detention but the adults too. The children have either been witness to or experienced some form of violence or abuse whether it is sexual, physical, or emotional (Australian Catholic University, 2014, section. 4.1.2). They have also witnessed other refugees committing self-harm, through cutting, jumping into razor wire fences, hanging, and sewing their lips together(ACU, 2014, section. 4.1.2). Children did not have any true dignity as or sense of being human as they were referred to by a number, not by their name. They are denied access to the basic freedoms that every child expects from a young age such as opportunities for education are limited; leisure and social activities are limited and very rare. These issues within the children in immigration issues are affecting their common good by exposing them to things they should never have to experience especially at a young age. There are many Catholic Social Teachings that are within the common good that are
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From the perspective of the advocacy groups the children should not be exposed to such cruel happenings from a young age (ACU, 2014, section. 4.1.2). Their dignity is taken from them when they arrive in such detention centres, and even more of their dignity is taken from them when they get physically, emotionally, and sexually abused in a place where they thought they would be protected. These groups aim to restore their human dignity and remove the children from these situations. These groups help their human dignity, by giving them hope for a better

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