The Asylum

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…

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…

teenagers and people in their early to middle adulthood. The Asylum is the second season of the series American Horror Story. Asylum begins in the 1960’s at a mental institution named Briarclif Manor, which happens to be in the hands of a Catholic Church (Minear. & Bradley, 2011). In the show mental illness is portrayed as a crime, racism is acceptable, and homosexuality is seen as a mental illness. Some of the main characters portrayed in Asylum include a news reporter by the name…

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 social group, or political opinion”. As a result of wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, many…

The Dark Knight is an engrossing tragedy film that leaps beyond its origins. Batman is not the comic character, that you spent many nights reading his comic book anymore. Because of the amazing performances, the writing, the direction, and the technical quality of the entire production, this movie created characters we come to care about. By putting all the right elements in play, this movie had given the character of Batman a literary merit. This movie is not simply present the good and evil…

Asylums It is thought that asylums were established by the Muslim Arabs as early as in the 8th century, but they were mostly perceived after the sixteenth century. It is believed that Bethlehem Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem was founded before 1547, but wasn’t until then that it began to house the insane. King Henry VIII presented policy, which ordered monasteries to end taking further care of the insane and assigned those individuals to the Bethlehem Hospital in the city London.…

American journalist Nellie Bly exposed a harrowing truth about Blackwell’s Island asylum for the mentally disturbed, “The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.” This in turn, led to a massive investigation, that would eventually cause Blackwell’s Island to rise from its trenches. However, if it weren’t for Bly’s courageous act to admit herself in such an inferno, no one would ever be aware of what happened…

Seeking Asylum: Refugees Denied of a Home Imagine; being harmed, persecuted, beaten or witnessing the ones you love being sunk into the depths of despair and pain. You try to run from the agony along with the torment, only to be caught with efforts in vain, or you escape only to be rejected or sent back. It hurts, just to imagine hurts. Nonetheless, there are so many constantly on the run, not needing to imagine the heartache or sorrow, not wanting to live in hurt. Every year about 19 million…

weird and mysterious places to document. When they met up, she got her newest and weirdest assignment to date, known as the Eclipse Asylum. It was known to be abandoned and have a mysterious presence there, although she’s already heard things like that and seen no proof otherwise to state that the supernatural was real. A few days later, as she just arrived at the asylum on a stormy night, she pointed the camera in her face and said, “well this storm makes the place slightly more creepy and…

The film Well-Founded Fear provides insight to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, often deemed, “the 21st century Ellis Island,” and the process for seeking asylum. The whole process is based on the evaluation of the refugee’s worth. Have they suffered enough? Are they worthy of this ‘desirable’ status? What can they do for us? Are they worth this investment? A refugee must prove themselves to American judges…