The Asylum

This journal will include many topics and connections to real life. This is the third book of the Asylum series by Madeleine Roux. A quick summary of the book would be that there are 3 characters who are spending their senior year on the road and things don’t go as planned. They start to get weird text messages from someone who had died a long time ago. They now have to find out why that’s happening and stop it. One of the three characters are named Dan and he is a very important character. He…

Australia’s International Obligation to Refugees in Offshore Processing Centres The treatment of asylum seekers and refugees in offshore processing centres has been described in numerous articles as ‘overly harsh, inhuman and degrading’, with many scholars highlighting their concerns that Australia is not complying with their international obligation to refugees and subsequently, neglecting their responsibilities by transferring refugees to offshore processing centres in other countries. The…

and fear, and a massive social issue and debate in Australia about people seeking asylum. Has Australia forgotten that in 1951 they signed and agreed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Refugee Convention? The outcome for signing and approving to this convention means Australia has guidelines and responsibilities to follow and adhere to, including, protecting the human rights of all asylum seekers, refugees and migrants who arrive in Australia, irrespective of how they…

has 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…

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

of criticisms have been raised over issues pertaining to national and border security, international law, and gender politics. First, “[m]any immigration restrictions adopted in the name of ‘national security’ violate the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers” and, thus, critics have raised concerns over the Safe Third Country…

should be 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…

Osama: I will sue the Hungarian Camerawoman, because of her I lost my chances to seek Asylum in Germany. “It wasn’t an easy trip" With these words began Osama, 52, his speech to the "Huffington Post Arabic," pointing out that what has increased the difficulty of his journey, “[the] foot trip made by the Hungarian Camerawoman [Petra László] in an attempt to stop me and my child Zaid from fleeing the [Hungarian] border police, she got us to the ground [and we were arrested] and that was the…

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…

immigration. Current Homeland Security policies consist of revisions to this selection process and the asylum process. According to the Borgen Project, an estimated 15.2 million people in the world are refugees forced to leave their home countries because of persecution, war or other kinds of violence (Williams, 2013). Data analysis suggests that conditions in their home countries are the driving force behind asylum seekers. Some of the general public has worried that with all of the immigrants…