An asylum seeker is defined as someone seeking protection whose claims for refugee status has either not yet had their application assessed or rejected. Asylum seekers arrive by boat or plane. The government will assess an asylum seekers’ claims and if they are found to be ‘true refugees’ they are granted the approval of a Temporary Protection Visa (TPV). Asylum seekers who arrive “illegally” by boat in Australia are detained in detention centres, where they are detained (without charge and without trial) by Australia’s Immigration, in anticipation of visas for gruelling periods of time. However, it is not illegal to seek asylum in Australia even if arriving by boat (no matter how you arrive). This is specified undoubtedly, as the right to
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85% of survey participants had assumed otherwise, essentially because of Australia’s disproportionate media coverage on former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s “stop the boats” campaigns. The refugee crisis is a global issue. Perhaps sensitivity towards other people may guide empathy in our debates. Yet, this is also an issue of Australian politics, the asylum seeker question has remained controversial to all parties in the Australian government. It has been an indirect means to implicate fear of terrorist activity, as well as a sideshow to deflect financial apprehension. The “stop the boats” policy is in fact an artless rhetorical substitution to allow the expression of veiled racist …show more content…
This is an issue which reveals global brutality, torture and danger. Currently, we are witnessing the evacuation of countless people. An emigration resulting in camps and extensive, patient queues. People are waiting for humble hope and resettlement or the opportunistic trade of people smugglers and offers for closer resolutions. Unfortunately it is clear that, “Any framing of the issue that took into account even a fraction of that complexity would need also to acknowledge that the search for a "solution" to the problem was a pretty vain pursuit”. Basically, “If we paid more attention to the complexity of the asylum seeker issue, we would be able to see through the vanity of the "stop the boats" solution”- Jonathan Green.
Furthermore, all asylum seekers who arrive by boat are recognised to be refugees fleeing the mentioned persecution, war and violence. The definition of a refugee is internationally agreed by the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), a low economic status is never a justification for being recognised as a
85% of survey participants had assumed otherwise, essentially because of Australia’s disproportionate media coverage on former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s “stop the boats” campaigns. The refugee crisis is a global issue. Perhaps sensitivity towards other people may guide empathy in our debates. Yet, this is also an issue of Australian politics, the asylum seeker question has remained controversial to all parties in the Australian government. It has been an indirect means to implicate fear of terrorist activity, as well as a sideshow to deflect financial apprehension. The “stop the boats” policy is in fact an artless rhetorical substitution to allow the expression of veiled racist …show more content…
This is an issue which reveals global brutality, torture and danger. Currently, we are witnessing the evacuation of countless people. An emigration resulting in camps and extensive, patient queues. People are waiting for humble hope and resettlement or the opportunistic trade of people smugglers and offers for closer resolutions. Unfortunately it is clear that, “Any framing of the issue that took into account even a fraction of that complexity would need also to acknowledge that the search for a "solution" to the problem was a pretty vain pursuit”. Basically, “If we paid more attention to the complexity of the asylum seeker issue, we would be able to see through the vanity of the "stop the boats" solution”- Jonathan Green.
Furthermore, all asylum seekers who arrive by boat are recognised to be refugees fleeing the mentioned persecution, war and violence. The definition of a refugee is internationally agreed by the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), a low economic status is never a justification for being recognised as a