an asylum seeker is someone who is seeking international protection from a wellfounded fear of being persecuted because of their race‚ religion‚ nationality‚ and conflict but whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. Their refugee status application is processed by the UNHCR or a government that is a signatory to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention. An asylum seeker must be outside of their country of origin in order to lodge an application for protection. The United Nations estimates there are 42
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Again Part of being a refugee is losing and finding home‚ but many refugees also lose and gain hope. The book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai‚ tells the story of one family which faces numerous difficulties after fleeing Vietnam and arriving in Alabama. The family’s story‚ especially the story of the main character Ha‚ is a good example of the universal refugee experience. This experience encapsulates feelings and situations that every refugee faces as they flee their home and resettle.
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This safe haven they arrived at was the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya that took about a year to reach (McKay‚ 2002). Over the course of their walk‚ any were shot at by Northern troops‚ died from starvation and dehydration‚ eaten by predator such as lions and crocodiles. All of these dangers they faced had nearly cut the number of boys in half. Out of the 26‚000 boys that had started the journey to the refugee camps‚ only 10‚000 boys made it into the camp in Kenya (IRC‚ 2014).
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right to safety. (evidence) most show that refugee detainees are under conditions far worse than prison convicts. Fifthly‚ in addition to refugee law‚ international human rights law and Australian law both prohibit the expulsion of people to places where they are at risk of torture‚ the death penalty‚ cruel‚ inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment‚ or arbitrary deprivation of life. Australia seems to conveniently brush aside Article 31 in the Refugee Convention 1951 that requires countries not
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still facing the challenge of its refugee past and the afermath of the turbulent events triggered by the 1994 genocide? Once the ‘One UN’/‘Delivering as One’ reform has been implemented‚ there are a number of outcomes that could signifcantly enhance refugee protection. The creation of national asylum systems‚ efective returnee monitoring mechanisms and prevention of new refugee movements are felds where the One UN reform has signifcant potential. In protracted refugee situations such as Rwanda the
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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 Minister Julia Gillard’s asylum seeker policy aims to tackle people smuggling. The Government is stepping up efforts to process asylum seekers offshore‚ and has recently negotiated a refugee swap deal with Malaysia. Opposition Leader
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Refugees According to the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees‚ a refugee as a person residing outside his or her country of nationality‚ who is unable or unwilling to return because of a ‘well-founded fear of persecution on account of race‚ religion‚ nationality‚ membership in a political social group‚ or political opinion’(UN General Assembly‚ 1951) 145 UN member states have signed the 1951 convention (UNHCR 2015). However‚ most of the forced migrants in the world do
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The Worlds Most Forgotten People Bangladesh and Burma ‚ two of Asia ’s poorest nations ‚ displaced and stateless people of Rohingya suffer in silence at the hands of the military government in Burma ’s Orwellian new capital of Naypyidaw Bangladesh. This is not the first time that Rohingya Muslims were persecuted in Myanmar. In their history‚ such mass killings have happened several times. People of Rohingya are being crashed to death. Their children are starving in the darkness of dawn in this
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refugees seeking asylum in Australia. The basis for all legislation regarding refugees in Australia is the Migration Act 1958‚ which outlines powers such as being able to cap the number of refugees accepted into Australia each year‚ and defines a refugee as somebody “being persecuted for reasons of race‚ religion‚ nationality‚ membership of a particular social group or political opinion”‚ which is written according to the United Nation’s definition.12 Since then a number of amendments and additions
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Refugees are all over the world and are forced to flee their homes leaving everything behind having to start their new lives in a safer place. It is a struggle for survival everyday. The novel: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai‚ is a fictionalization of the real life issues of refugees with the main character Kim Ha and her family having to leave their home in Saigon in order to escape the war that plagues them. The family‚ although reluctant‚ decides to flee to America looking for a new place
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