Negative Effects Of Asylum Seekers

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Asylum seekers are still fleeing conflict from their country of origin to gain protection from their host country. This has negative impacts on various levels including psychological aspects on the asylum seeker, the asylum seekers family, the local community and Australia as a whole. The individual asylum seeker has been exposed to such depravity it effects are long and misunderstood. The trauma that negatively impacts memory, emotions, thoughts and worldviews, suicidal and psychiatric issues. These traumas such as ‘war, mass killings, torture, rape and dispossession’, may not be recognised which could create negative pressure towards the individual (Puviman). The negative impacts on the families are in the children with the Australian government

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