Immigration detention

Introduction The number of migrants to Australia experienced an increasing trend in the past three decades. It is partly because of the expansion and implement of business migration programs encouraged by the Australian government since the 1990s. The main purpose of these migration programs is to meet the requirements of skills and techniques in the Australian labor market (Simon,2012). However, early Australian migrants were mostly British. It was not until the Australia Gold Rush that…

later reciprocated by Australia who joined the ANZUS treaty and also created legislation that meant British citizens needed a passport to access Australia. As a result, Japan and the USA became Australia’s main trading and investment partners and immigration flows from European countries such as Italy and Greece replaced the previous British inflow when the White Australia policy was demolished in 1973. Furthermore Britain’s roll as the “primary guarantor of Australia’s security” was dismissed…

Film Review: The Poniente What does it take to grow a tomato plant? For most people, perhaps a handful of seeds, a bag of fertilizer, and the occasionally trimming and watering would be sufficient enough to harvest the fruits in a few months’ time. Yet, as the film The Poniente has showed, the real cost behind these seemly average household items, are often beyond our imaginations. The Poniente tells the story of a single mother, Lucia, who tried to lead the family business in a rural costal…

migration due to fears loss of national identity. Thus, gaps in policy rhetoric and realities in the left and right stances towards migration can be predicted on theoretical grounds. ‘The goal of a theory of immigration policies is to account for the similarities and differences in the policies of immigration receiving states and to explain the persistent gaps between the goals and effects of policies as well as the related but non-identical gap between public sentiment and the content of public…

Writing in the startling second-individual "you" voice, Jamaica Kincaid's piece "The Ugly Tourist" investigates the possibility of the separation amongst sightseers and the indigenous individuals those vacationers venture out so far to see. This paper characterizes both what it is to be a visitor and additionally to live in the look of travelers as the other. The written work style is as forceful as its message, reminding "you" the gathering of people to reevaluate the power dynamic that exists…

Seth Holmes is a cultural anthropologist and a physician. His research focuses on issues such as social inequalities, ethnic hierarchies, immigration, and healthcare. Holmes’ Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies is a riveting ethnography that describes the suffering of undocumented Triqui farmworkers from Oaxaca, Mexico. In this ethnography, Holmes calls for immigration and healthcare reform, and emphasizes the high costs to human bodies and the planet of cheap food accessible in developed countries…

33, agreed at the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the rights of refugees, to respect the human rights2 and proceed with legal procedures. The UNHCR was primarily founded to address the refugee crisis in Europe in 1947 in order to resolves the immigration issue on continental Europe at the end of WWII (World War Two). The UNHCR was set up to be a temporal institution as some countries objected to its continuous operation. The UNHCR operates today and has been strengthened, in order to address…

is a journalist whose work focuses on immigration, Mexican politics, and globalization. The reason being is that he is Mexican-AMerican and feels strongly for immigration. He is known for his feelings about immigration and has published many books. His work led to him winning an Emmy award along with several other accolades. He was also an editor at LA Weekly for five years. In Martinez’s article, “The Crossing,” published in 2006, he argues that immigration is a common theme. In this essay, I…

TIntroduction The objective of this tutorial report is to analyze the Australian’s Humanitarian Program and what are the main policies for that population in the Australian context. Thus, particular, the report is focused on identifying the category of visas for the displaced population and, in the last part, discusses the contributions of the forcibly displaced population to the Australia society. The forcibly displaced population in the Global International Migration context Forced…

In the current age of globalization, the nature and characteristics of human resources has undergone many changes, in which labors are more active and flexible and freely in making decision about their employment. More and more people move from one country to another in the hope for better employment opportunities. Under this circumstances, labor migration associated to the tendency of global migration has played a particularly important role in the socio-economic development of many countries.…