Refugee law

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. This is what a refugee is. On the 31st of August, the high court made its landmark decision, ruling that the federal government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Malaysia was unlawful. There was a case about two plaintiffs who are citizens of Afghanistan, against the minister of immigration. The second plaintiff was only the age of 16. The plaintiffs arrived on Christmas Island on the…

The Refugee Relief Act in 1953 provided opportunities for refugees of communism countries to come to the United States. Hungary produced a large amount of refugees under the invasion of Soviet Union during the Cold War era. Lots of the Hungarian refugees fled…

If anyone does a generic search of the words “Muslim Immigration” through Google you will come up with more than twelve million different sources on this issue. Likewise, if anyone does a search on the “Syrian Refugee Crisis” you will get well over seventeen million different sources. This search gives a small glimpse into how large this issue is. This is why many people are interested in how the United States is going to respond. There are many different views on what should be done given the…

The first half of the novel’s title, “inside out,” reflects the universal refugee experience of fleeing home. This relates to Ha’s experience in various ways. For instance, at the beginning of the novel, when Ha was still back in Saigon, she writes in the poem, “Closed Too Soon”, that, “I’m mad/ and pinch the girl/ who shares my desk,/ Tram is half my size,/ so skinny and nervous” (Lai 38). This shows how Ha was a bully who was feared by others. This proves how before the war, she was a…

many have been accepted into Australian society. During this process refugees are put into a refugee detention centre, the treatment of refugees while in these centres is what this essay will discuss. Is it ethical? What actually happens behind closed walls? Are these refugees even illegal? Asylum seekers are primarily affected by war, unrest, violence and human rights abuse, not domestic policies in refugee-hosting countries. Most people do not wish to leave their homes, families, friends and…

The other rationale deterrence measures is that they prevent futile deaths. However, drawing causal relationships between Australia’s policies and refugee mortality is an almost impossible task. While Operation Relex and Operation Sovereign Borders clearly reduced arrivals to Australian territory, their impact on the attempted journeys has not been transparently reported by the relevant government agencies. The claims of immigration ministers are accepted, however, these operations have slowed…

There is a deep history of exclusionary state policies and laws in regards to immigrants in general, which profoundly inform the sentiment towards asylum seekers today. The United States for example had the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1875 to 1882, and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act which limited the total number of immigrants per year (Rose-Redwood, The United States: Historical and Contemporary Migration, 2016). These two examples show the racialized and restrictive immigration policies of the…

reality. For refugee children in this situation they also enter an education system which aims to be inclusive and supportive of their learning requirements. The Australian curriculum has been constructed to be inclusive of diversity, incorporating culture, English as second language, socio-economic status and family structure ("ACARA - Student Diversity", 2016). Experiences within curriculum vary for each individual and situation. How the curriculum and education system supports refugee…

Australian government is being equally fair to Refugees and Asylum seekers. ‘A refugee is a person who has fled his or her country and cannot return because of a well-founded fear of persecution due to their race, religion, nationality or membership of a particular social group’ (NSW Government department of education , 2015). As shown in (Dictionary.com, 2016) the definition of ‘illegal’ is defined as ‘forbidden by law or statute.’ The classification of an asylum seeker is people or peoples…

It is commonly thought that a refugee is defined as a person forced to flee from their own habitat due to armed conflicts or severe natural disaster. Refugee aid is the humanitarian response to such disasters that have caused the lack of fresh drinking water, hygiene, accommodations, safety and the growth of illnesses that can place lives in mortal danger. Principally, humanitarian support in such chaotic conditions centers on preventing death, giving assistance and safety measures for those…