While urging the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea to fully respect the refugees' human rights, the UN agencies also repeated their "overall concerns" about Australia's offshore processing centers, which are described as "unsustainable, inhumane and contrary to its human rights obligation...
The contributors to this volume investigate and highlight the parameters for the restriction of the inflow of claimants to refugee statusBlay, SamBurn, JenniferKeyzer, Patrickcopyright statementBlay S, Burn J and Keyzer P (2007) Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers: The Search for Legitimate ...
The girl is not the only one refugee who attempted to flee to Australia only to end up in detention centers in Nauru or Papua New Guinea. Since its introduction in 2013, a current policy of Australia has put about 3,000 refugees and asylum-seekers forcibly to offshore processing facilities ...
In these corporate-run RPCs, asylum seekers must wait for processing, sometimes for over ten years, to have a refugee determination made. Under theMigration Act 1958(Cth), this detention has no time limit, and only minimal court review is available. Even if they are found to be a genuine ...
The Australian government sends asylum-seekers who come to the country by boat to Manus Island and the small Pacific island of Nauru to process refugee claims. Only some are resettled. The United Nations is among several international organisations to have criticised Australia's detention regime on...
Australia's refugee policy can be characterized as crimmigration since it constructs asylum seekers as illegal and subjects them to indefinite detention in offshore processing centres where human...doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9093-7_14Martin, Greg...
refugee protestoffshore detentionprivatisationstrategic litigationOn 31 October 2017, the Australian-run Manus Island Regional Processing Centre (RPC), located at the Lombrum Naval Base in Papua New Guinea (PNG), officially clSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
This time, the focus was on the system for processing asylum claims outside of Australia's "migration zone". In a unanimous judgment, the High Court ruled that two Tamil asylum seekers denied refugee protection on Christmas Island did have a right to have their determinations made ...
Khaskhely, Ambreen Zeb. Khan, Abdul Razzaq. Razzaq, Sadia. (2016) "Policy Analysis Of The `Pacific Solution / Offshore Processing `Component Of Immigration And Asylum Seeker/ Refugee Policy Of Australia" Government: Research Journal of Political Science. Vol. 5 Issue 5, pp. 173-184....
Australia Passes Refugee-System Overhaul ; Opposition Joins Labor in Major Policy Reversal; Offshore Camps to ReopenThe legislation, passed by the lower house of Parliament, aims atdeterring thousands of asylum...Siegel, Matt