ASYLUM SEEKERS Take a moment to imagine the life of an asylum seeker. You live in a country‚ ravaged by conflict‚ poverty‚ illiteracy and hunger. You are stifled by your circumstances‚ bound to a life of suffering. For a 17 year old girl in a developing country‚ life is different from ours. Say that you are a 17 year old girl in a developing country. Horrible realities are faced every day. With no identification or passport‚ nothing stands in the way of child marriage; that is‚ you could be
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Who are these People? Asylum seekers are people who have fled their own country to seek refuge in another country whereby they apply for ‘asylum’ or rights to be recognised as genuine refugees with legal status and the assistance that it entails. Many of the asylum seekers we see crossing Australian borders are from the Middle East and Asia. Reasons for the illegal entry varies for the individual‚ but most commonly relates to discrimination of one reason or another‚ such as religion‚ nationality
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Only a person who can claim that they have a well-founded fear of persecution can claim asylum. The majority of asylum seekers come to the UK from four main countries. These are Afghanistan‚ Iraq‚ Somalia and Sri Lanka. Different people see the asylum seekers in different situations. Some see them and immediately give them sympathy and say that they would do the same if they were in the same situation. Whilst others see them all as people who only come here for the money and this annoys them
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over how to deal with asylum seekers. 10Jan14 Prisoner transport to match shipping container cells. The Victorian Government’s plan to use shipping containers as prison cells to alleviate prison overcrowding. 8Jan14 Frosty weather. A look at both the freezing weather in America and the cool relations between Australia and Indonesia over asylum seekers. The feud between Australia and Indonesia over how to deal with asylum seekers. 10Jan14 Prisoner
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No Child’s Play: Children in Immigration Detention Asylum seekers become an increasingly controversial topic not just in Australia‚ but also around the world. Asylum seekers are people who flee their homeland in order to find safety from dangerous circumstances that are out of their control (Australian Human Rights Commission‚ 2014). On arrival in or near Australian land‚ these peace seekers are detained until their claims can be legally processed and they are either granted an Australian visa or
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unauthorised arrivals‚ it is the only country to mandatory detain children. (Keks‚ 2013) This movement is widely criticised by rights groups and the UN. A church group even describe it as "state-sanctioned child abuse". They treat children and other asylum seekers in the same way. Children are facing the long processing time without adequate access to schooling and other special services. They are held in some closed detention facilities or detention centres with poor condition for prolonged periods. There
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Equality and Difference – Asylum Seekers PART 1 Asylum seekers are a group of people‚ who from fear of persecution for reasons of race‚ religion‚ social group or political opinion‚ has crossed an international frontier into a country in which they hope to be granted refugee status. The Australian public opinion towards asylum seekers has often been unwelcoming at best and hostile at worst and this is often the way the media has portrayed the influx of people seeking asylum in Australia. Prime
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Scott McCulloch – 4104576812 Argumentative Essay Hypothesis Australia should ban the indefinite mandatory detention of asylum seekers‚ and pursue a policy of Community Placement for those at stage two of the application process. Abstract Stage two indefinite mandatory detention should be banned in Australia. Enormous financial resources are being used to detain a vulnerable group that make up only 0.3 per cent of all immigration intake. As a signatory to the Convention relating to the
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#LetThemStay: Thousands gather in cities all over Australia to rally against asylum seekers deported back to Nauru Thousands of protesters gather in cities all over Australia on Wednesday calling on to the Federal Government not to deport 267 asylum seekers back to Nauru. The protest was in response to the High Court ruling allowing almost 300 asylum seekers‚ including 72 children to be sent back to offshore detention at Nauru. ABC reported the demonstrators gathered in Melbourne‚ Adelaide‚ Sydney
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Persuasive speech Abraham Maslow‚ an American professor and most famous psychologist‚ invented a virtual pyramid back in 1943 called the “Hierarchy of Needs”. This theory is still important today. In this virtual pyramid of the needs and desires of human kind‚ Maslow places the “need for belonging” above the physiological needs such as food‚ water and sex‚ and above safety needs such as the security of family‚ health and body. This shows that the desire to belong is practically mandatory and is
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