For almost two decades, negative portrayals of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat have been dominant within political and media discourses. In particular, asylum seekers have been portrayed as a "dangerous other"—as an illegal group that the public ought to fear and from which they ...
at the time of this writing, none of these countries deny asylum seekers the right to basic medical care. Indeed, a brief review of the refugee and asylum seeker health policies of the United Kingdom (UK), Canada and New Zealand indicates that Australian policy is comparatively lacking...
Australia has long had a policy of mandatory detention for boatpeople seeking asylum and many are held in remote facilities, including on the Indian Ocean outpost of Christmas Island. The government has softened its stance in recent years to allow more women and children into the community as th...
We begin by briefly discussing the definitions of who is deemed to be a refugee and who is deemed to be an asylum seeker, for health care policies vary within and between these two categories accordingly. Second, we describe in some detail, the current health policy for asylum seekers and ...
For almost two decades, negative portrayals of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat have been dominant within political and media discourses. In particular, asylum seekers have been portrayed as a "dangerous other"—as an illegal group that the public ought to fear and from which they ...
Court ruling throws Australian asylum seeker rejections into doubt
More particularly, it is a retrospective on shifting policy rhetoric during the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments. Through its historical-cultural and linguistic analysis, the paper positions the rhetoric of these Prime Ministers in the context of an historical narrative concerning the asylum seeker. ...
Amnesty International. 2013. This is breaking People: Human Rights Violations at Australia's Asylum Seeker Processing Centre on Manus Island Papua New Guinea. London: Amnesty International Ltd. 66. “Review into the Events of 16-18 February 2014 at the Manus Regional Processing Centre.” ...
The policy, while designed to stop the flow of asylum seekers using people-smuggling operations to reach Australia by boat following a spate of tragic deaths at sea, has been heavily criticized. TheUnited NationsHigh Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has previously condemned the...
Psychiatric status of asylum seeker families held for a protracted period in a remote detention centre in Australia - Steel - 2007 - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - Wiley Online Library 来自 Ingenta 喜欢 0 阅读量: 18 作者:...