Asylum Seeker Analysis

For the vast majority of Australians asylum seekers are an issue of concern, where most people disregard and do not accept the idea. In 2001 sociologist Katherine Betts analysed opinion poll date on the issue of boat arrivals. She analysed the date from the past 25 years and it showed that in the late 1970’s 60% of Australians wanted to let a limited number of asylum seekers to stay and 30% wanted to stop them from staying. In 1993, 45% wanted to send asylum seeker straight back without assessing any claims, where only 7% believed that they have a right to stay and 48% approved the idea of holding asylum seekers in detention. Finally, in 2001 77% of Australia supported the Howard government decision to refuse entry to asylum seekers. Most attitudes

Sadly, that's the harsh reality for many asylum seekers, seeking refuge in Australia as they are arbitrarily detained. Good morning or afternoon. It has been a profound honour to be invited to address you about the eloquently breach of basic human rights asylum seeker face while being detained in our shores. Mandatory detention should be abolished as it causes indiscriminate health risk. Instead, the Australia government should allow asylum seekers to settle into the community. We should be viewing asylum seekers as a humanitarian issue instead of a political one.

Political unrest and local war happens around the world all the time. Many people live in a dangerous situation and suffered from violence. Hence, large amount of asylum seeker undertakes a huge perilous, try to cross the ocean and arrive Australia. To deal with this issue, Australian government enacted mandatory detention policy and offshore processing policy, these policies become highly contentious in the community with many arguments and criticisms. This report will focus on the nature and purpose of these immigration policies and the impact towards the asylum seeker as well as the criticism form international. To propose some advice about how the future policies should be framed.

Another important stakeholder in this issue is the children themselves. Almost all of the children present in detention centres are asylum seekers whom arrived in Australia by boat, and are classified as ‘unauthorised maritime arrivals’ (Humanrights.gov.au, 2015). These asylum seeker children all held the same responses to some degree. Their responses were all surrounded by the main aspect of ‘Wanting to be free and safe’.

Over the last few years there have been major changes in the polices against immigrant that have sparked chaos all over the world. Same people believe that asylum seekers and refugees should be welcomed into Australia with or without a visa, I think different. I think asylum seekers that come to Australia without a visa expecting asylum, should be taken back to where they came from. At the moment hundreds of people are kept in detention centres because they don’t belong in our community. This is ok, but the government still pays a lot of money to run the centres. Asylum seekers and refugees should not be allowed into Australia without a visa.

This topic of this essay will be about Asylum seekers in Australia. Detention centres are meant to be a safe place, while Australian officials try find documents and I.D. However, 27 humane, innocent citizens have died in these so called “safe” detention centres. Yet the Government has done zilch to improve the status and condition of the Asylum Seekers and Detention Centres. This is why Australia must allow Asylum Seekers to enter the Australian community. If the government allowed Asylum Seekers to enter the community, then their rights will improve immensely, they will be educated while in situated Australia, and finally the government will be able to reduce funding for detention centres.

Asylum Seeker policy has become key political battleground in recent times. This stems from the end of Australia’s ‘White Australia’ policy in the 1970s; a policy which saw restrictions placed on non-European migration for over 70 years (Crock & Berg, 2011). Following the conclusion of the Vietnam war, a myriad of boats arrived in Australia, carrying asylum seekers from south east Asia. This lead to a stark increase in public concern over the arrivals and consequently, the term ‘boat people’ was born and spread through the media and public/political discourses alike (Grewcock, 2009).

One Australian Catholic organisation that works with refugees and asylum seekers is Catholic Care. This particular organisation helps refugees and asylum seekers in several ways such as the asylum seeker support program and the refugee settlement program. The asylum seeker support program offers hope to all the asylum seekers, whether there in a family or by themselves. Upon receiving hope the asylums can do anything they want, because “you can achieve anything you set your mind to”. They also help move asylum seekers from immigration detention centres to community detention centres. Community detention centres have a more constructive and progressive outcome to help asylums reach their potential. Furthermore the refugee settlement program

The religious and societal point of views differ quite a lot, which is why this contemporary issue is causing a lot of controversy. The religious approach is that Australia should give aid to asylum seekers and show hospitality as well as compassion. Whereas, most of Australians disregard asylum seekers and think that the government should stop giving them aid. Religious communities take on the gospel teachings and implement them into their views and how they practice it in society. While, societal views are based on selfish beliefs and the uncertainty that society has on asylum seekers. Societal views portray how asylum seekers are gaining more benefits than the general public, which is not true. Though, religious parishes put aside the asylum

Asylum seekers are the world's number one problem and debate going on right now in most countries, Australia right now does not allow most asylum seekers in and turns them away bringing up one of the bigger questions in our time yet are asylum seekers people as well? Should we let them in? And do they pose a threat to Australia's economy? I think we should let them in

Born out of patriotism, xenophobia and a desire to “mark the moral boundaries of society” (Critcher, 2003, p.5), uncertainty over immigrants “resonates with deep-rooted anxieties about Australia’s national identity and way of life” (Martin, 2015, p.1). Following the ‘Signification Spiral’ model (Poynting & Morgan, 2007, pp.3-4), the issue of refugees intensified after September 11 2001, whereby inextricable links were produced between terrorism and Muslim boat people, eventually leading to the identification of refugees as fearful invaders. The Federal Elections that year took the emphasis away from domestic topics, and stressed national security and border protection (Mares, 2002, p.1); forming a moral panic that has remained up to the present day. Further, these groups as an entirety were associated with other problems occurring at the same time – embodying the concept of ‘convergence’ by linking refugees to increased violence, terrorism, wastage of the taxpayer’s money on ‘foreigners’ and the straining of resources and

A recent analysis of The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald’s coverage of the issue found only 2% of all images to depict visually recognisable facial features of asylum seekers (Bleiker, Campbell, Hutchison and Nicholson 2013). This is a notable finding because audiences are most likely to feel compassionate and sympathetic towards subjects when close-up framing is used (Bleiker, Campbell, Hutchison and Nicholson 2013). Since the vast majority of images have a long social distance and focus on larger groups of people on boats, asylum seekers are dehumanised and portrayed to be threatening and invasive, rather than as victims of humanitarian crises. These representations feed the misconception that asylum seekers are opportunistic ‘economic migrants’, despite the fact that the vast majority of them are genuine refugees (Gilchrist 2013). Moreover, when large groups of Asian or Middle Eastern asylum seekers are primarily depicted alongside military or police personnel, the media perpetuates the racist notion that individuals of these cultural backgrounds are criminal threats to national security and incongruent with Australian culture (Croston and Pedersen 2013; Ellis, Fulton, and Scott 2016). In these ways, the media contributes to racist discourse through its visual representation of asylum

Asylum seekers are defined as someone who has fled their own country and seek international protection. They pursue safety and cannot return unless the situation that forced them to leave improves. Each Asylum seeker has different experiences and reasons for moving to another country. Many asylum seekers flee their own country because there is war, tortured for own religious or political beliefs or because their human rights are not being respected. The term ‘boat people’ is a racist remark and has become intertwined into society since the 1970’s with the first arrival of boats carrying people seeking asylum from the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The first onset of asylum seekers arrived in April of 1976 in Darwin which was the first of

Australian detention centres have been known to violate the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s (UNHRC) human rights obligations, which has resulted in detrimental repercussions for the refugees and asylum seekers accommodated there. With respect to the UNHRC human rights obligations, individuals that are detained must be respected of their humanity and dignity (Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), 2013, pp.7). In December 2012, however, the UNHRC had uncovered overly strict and unsatisfactory living circumstances, for instance overcrowding, which had been known to promote depression and alternate mental illnesses among asylum seekers and refugees (AHRC, 2013, pp.17). Similarly, Burnside (2014) stated that refugees were refused to

Denmark's Plan to take assets from asylum seekers is not only degrading to those who are trying to get into the country, and for those people inside of the country. As an immigrant myself, I surely know the struggle of leaving one's country to go to another one. I reject, and oppose Denmark's Plan to take the assets of migrants. For the people who are trying to get into Denmark their struggle is even more real. The Wall Street Journal also reports that thousands of hundreds of migrants will try to reach Denmark But how many of those migrants will reach Denmark? The Danish government have set up a new plan quoting " Danish police would be given the power to take cash and valuables at more than 10,000 kroner (1,450 U.S) although with the exception