Asylum Seekers Persuasive Speech Analysis

Giving a human rights issue an individual face often results in greater attention . British citizens living in resettlement communities are more likely to have interacted with a refugee or asylum seeker in a personal or professional capacity, and are therefore more likely to be sympathetic of their circumstances, making them ideal targets for the BRC’s communication campaign.

Commentary 1: Refugees areal deadly facing an awful life and a tough screening process, but even after it is all over their lives will still be far worse than ours. They will be disrespected and have trouble socially fitting into this new

In today’s society where most of us are sheltered physically and emotionally, have we ever stopped to think about the unfortunate ones who have been forced to live their lives differently? We are often carried away with basking in our riches that we forget to take a moment to think for those who aren’t as lucky as us. What else can we call those who have nowhere to go and nothing to do— no place to call home, no job to call an occupation, no purpose to speak of? With more people being forced out of their homelands to seek greener grass on the other side, refugee rates are on a constant rise.

Obviously we don’t seem to be much of a humanitarian, decent country if this is how we treat those who need our help. The government is so fixated on stopping the boats, when instead they could be stopping the incrimination of asylum seekers in the Australian community, caused by asylum seekers being seen as a political issue instead of a humanitarian one. Politicians use terms such as ‘deviant individuals’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ in the attempt to criminalise and demonise asylum seekers, scaring the country into believing that they are terrorists wanting to corrupt the Australian way of life. Footage of immigration minister Scott Morrison addressing asylum seekers detained on Manus Island and Nauru is frightening. He informs asylum seekers that they are where they are because “you entered Australia illegally”, that “you will be here for a very, very long time”, that “you will never enter Australia” and that “I urge you to think carefully about your next decision and to make a decision to get on with the rest of your life and to not remain here and take the option to go back to the country from which you’ve originally come.” Mr Morrison, they did not come here illegally. International law allows those fleeing persecution to right to

Asylum seekers and refugees have been left and deserted on Nauru and Manus Island following the act to shut down detentions centres by the government. These refugees are unable to contact the Australian public and they lack legal support as well as medical services. And although Australians are protesting the unjust and unfair treatment of these people who are in need, the Australian government has refused to help these people out of what the Government placed them in the first place, despite their knowledge of their terrible living conditions and treatment.

Marginalisation (Slide 1) Hello and welcome to my Year 11 marginalisation assignment. I hope it opens your eyes. The harsh reality refugees face (Slide 2)

This book is written by Brian Galligan. He is a professor of Political Science in the school of Social and Political Science in the University of Melbourne. Co-author of this book is Martina Boese and Melissa Phillips. Martina Boese is an Australian Research fellow at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and Melissa Philips is an Honorary Fellow in the school of Social and Political science at the University of Melbourne. Publisher of this book is Melbourne University and this book was published in 2014. This book has 246 pages and it has illustrations. In this book Brian tells the challenges of becoming Australian for asylum seekers and

The term “refugee” is value laden. It carries centuries of imagery, something connected to our own histories, whether personal or cultural, an image deserving charity or compassion. But by it's very neutrality, it's bureaucratic blandness, the term “asylum seeker” distances us from the natural reaction of wanting to offer refuge, to one of objectivity and lack of emotional engagement. What's ironic here is that the term was probably coined by a well meaning academic attempting to remove the stigma of those emotional, pejorative or inaccurate labels like “boat people” , “queue jumpers” or the particularly insidious “genuine refugee”. Unfortunately their efforts have been co-opted by the opinion makers to reduce the experience of afflicted people to what sounds like a category on a governmental form. The fact that this term is so bureaucratic means that it ties in well with the label “queue jumper” further reinforcing the image of refugees as importunate opportunists who just want a share of “the good life”, Aussie style.

Refugees are innocent human beings who have been forced to escape their homes. As they face mental, physical and emotional trauma, they face and confront astounding obstacles during their escape from their corrupted country.

As more migrants attempt to seek asylum in our country, more are detained in poor, unsanitary detention centres, some of them having worse conditions than the situation they were experiencing from where they originated from. The decision between allowing or stopping the boats is clouded between what is right for human beings and what is right for our country. If we allow the boats to arrive in our nation, our population may overflow, increasing unemployment and poverty due to lack of jobs however, if we stop the boats, asylum seekers will continue to live in poor conditions which is incredibly unjust. The nations surrounding Australia look upon our nation for help and guidance but if we don’t take in their refugees, what kind of a country are we? This is the hole we are trapped in.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (2013, p. 5) argues that releasing asylum seekers into the community while their claims are being processed is beneficial for their health and well-being. Although, little to no financial assistance is supplied. Asylum seekers that are released into the community on these visas are not entitled to claim any Centrelink or healthcare benefits, unless they can prove

I had learned early on that what I am told by asylum seekers may well be untrue – in all parts, some parts, or perhaps just one area. I managed this knowledge on different levels; I was paid to care for those that the social services deemed to be young people in need, and this was my first and principal role, regardless of my opinion or feelings about who they were or said they were. They are first and foremost young people in need of assistance. On another level, I accepted that the lies were not personal but about their need to achieve their understandable aims and the lies may well have been formulated long before I ever met them. I also had awareness of, and accepted that stories needed to be shaped to fit the stringent asylum requirements, and therefore it would be highly likely that there would be some lie or lies somewhere in their narrative; I have often been told by young people after having built relationships with them that this is indeed the case and that they had lied for this reason. This is the third lie, the lie to the Home

Refugees! Refugees! Refugees! This the only word we are hearing nowadays. The word ‘refugee’ echoes in society and particularly in the media nowadays, yet, many are ignorant of what it truly means. Whenever we hear the word ‘refugee’, our knee-jerk reaction is that we think of immigrants. A refugee, according to the Geneva Convention, is someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion1. People have fled their home country from the fear of unjustified persecution, but we do not call them innocent people; rather our deluded society deride

Imagine having to live in a constant war, where it's not safe to go outside for months at a time. Imagine having your friends and relatives killed by the endless conflicts. Imagine having to give everything up for a chance at a possible new life (Reeves). Every day, migrants attempt to achieve a new life for these very reasons. It's not an easy journey, approximately 560 reach the shores of Greece and Italy everyday, however 56 migrants drown trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea daily. 1,680 a month, 20,440 a year (Fleming). As soon as they begin their journey, these refugees are plagued with problems, from the dangerous of the Mediterranean to the culture shock when they reach their destination (Al Abdullah). The migrant crisis has become

Australia was becoming a truly multicultural society and it was all working towards success. However, since the 1990s, this number has not necessarily increased, and by 2009, Australia received only 0.6 per cent of the world’s asylum seekers. In 2010 Australia accepted 8,250 asylum claims, in comparison, in the same year the United States received 55,500 asylum claims, France received 47,800 claims and Germany 41,300 (Ross, 2011). In average, Australia receives only around 13,000 claims every year, sadly becoming an ignoring country, partly due to the foreign affairs policies that the governments have imposed during the last couple of decades in terms of refugee and asylum seeker acceptance, Saying that the only way to ‘stop the boats’ is by not assuming any responsibility and imposing numbers that do not represent the actual capacity of the country. This approach has started to reflect in today’s society,