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attached negative connotations towards asylum seekers, deeming them non-citizens. The government has created a border security policy that immediately portrays asylum seekers as criminals. This criminalisation has allowed violence to be inflicted above asylum seekers, through detention camps. Asylum seekers are not protected under the law and are the ‘exception’ to our liberalist system of law. A grievable life is “a life grieved if lost”, asylum seekers are not considered as ‘grievable lives’…

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 United States, which no longer exist but the ideology behind them still does. Framing the asylum seeker Recently,…

limited to two weeks maximum; this period was sufficient for these assessments when the practice was first introduced (5). Once these assessments are completed, asylum seekers should be given bridging visas and live freely in the community while their refugee status can be determined. The current situation of treating asylum seekers as guilty until proven innocent is not consistent with the regulations imposed in other countries who accept refugees as they do not use detention as a primary…

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Australia In Australia the Refugee and Asylum Seeker social justice issue is a recurring matter that causes the Australian Government to take action. The Refugee issue in Australia divides the nation in half between the Government’s and the Catholic Church’s opinions. This causes a range of interest including professionals, priests, students and more people to write about the Refugee social justice issue. Morrissey is a professional who…

All three texts focus on asylum seekers. Each text views asylum seekers in a different way while also sharing similar concerns with the two other texts. The poem, Outsider, by Cassidy Stagg and the short story, Stained, by Sara El Sayed, both imaginatively and sympathetically explore the struggles that asylum seekers face while trying to fit in and how the two personas deal with being the obvious outsider. The newspaper article, Truth Founders in A Sea of Bias, by Andrew Bolt, focuses on the…

The securitization of Asylum Seekers by Australia Orin Troyer Introduction By the conclusion of 2014, in accordance to reports of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) there are approximately 59.5 million displaced people globally as a result of conflict, violence, environmental degradation and human rights violations. Of these, approximately 19.5 million are classified as an asylum seeker or refugee collectively. A refugee is a person who is unable or unwilling to…

countries as well as African countries and the Indian subcontinent. Due to the large amount of migrants crossing through Turkey, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) made an agreement to “provide some degree of protection and status determination” for asylum seekers and refugees. The UNHCR defines a refugee as a person “who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular…

This report examines the seriousness of the issue on refugees and asylum seekers that Australia is facing, and also shows that there is a need of change in Australia's policy on this matter. Although in recent times, there have been a several changes made. However, with a country that has such strict immigration law and policy for refugees like Australia, this report reveals the contradictions between Australian's legal system with the UN policy of human rights; and research also shows that the…

In the recent times, the amount of asylum seekers coming to Australia has drastically increased due to the poor living conditions in their specific homeland. Asylum seekers are people who are fleeing from their home country to get away from the human rights issues they are currently facing; Thanks to the popularity, it has become a very controversial topic in the media. The daily Telegraph's opinion piece (March 18th, 2010) 'A fair go for refugees is a fair go for all Australians,' states that…

Statement of intent I decided to do a opinion piece on the contemporary social issue of asylum seeker, and or the closure of Manus Island. The purpose of my piece was to inform the reader about the situation on Manus Island and to persuade the reader that legitimate refugees who were held on Manus Island deserve to be granted asylum. The intended target audience is young adults, 19-30 years old. As they will one day be the leaders in our society and actually have the power to create change one…