Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, Power Relationships and Oppression in Relation to Social Work

The first part of the essay will draw upon knowledge gained from different legislations in Wales related to the case study. it will also include ASPIRE social work process model to interpret and demonstrate an understanding of Khalid's circumstances as an unaccompanied asylum seeker.

UK’s government passed an amendment to allow 3,000 child refugees into UK from Europe. Labour's Lord Dub, who came to UK as a child refugee says raising the number of child refugees that can enter the UK would save children from “Exploitation and abuse”. Opposers to the increase of child refugees state that by allowing the numbers to increase the refugee that

But children are a special case they cannot always stand up for themselves. They therefore need a special set of rights which take in to consideration their vulnerability and which ensures the adults that surround them take responsibly for their welfare, protection and development.

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’.

Asylum seekers or refugees have fled their countries’ due to volatile circumstances such as war, or fear of prosecution. Upon arrival in Australia they are moved to detention centres. Detention centres hold people who have come without a visa, any non-national and all unauthorised boat arrivals (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2014). These centres hold refugees for indefinite periods and in poor conditions. They are used as a spectacle to represent illegality and a threat to Australian society (Marfleet, 2007, p672).

The media coverage in the United Kingdom especially in the present climate can be described as anti migrant and asylum seekers. There is a suggested sense of being under siege with threats of invasion of being overwhelmed via Calais. With Headlines such as ` Migrants 'threaten EU standards' ` (BBC News, 2015), and reports from the government does little to show a different image as the recent comment from `British Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his policy of restricting immigration, arguing that illegal migrants are trying to "break into" the country`. Regardless of the fact that there are little other means in which they can gain asylum but to enter illegally. In considering this I am not suggesting that one should have no systems in place to control and monitor immigration but feel that this negativity does not address that people have the right to claim asylum nor does it show positive images or outcomes of those that have made lives

Media outlets often inflate or speculate about either the numbers of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants. Hence causing the public to feel threatened by these numbers. Not only does the media scrutinise numbers but newspapers and television images and videos play “dominant stereotype of the young dangerous man breaking into Australia and threatening ‘our’ communities 7”. Unsurprisingly “31 precent of headlines and 53 precent of text about asylum across all newspapers has negative connotations. The media has had a detrimental affect on the outcome of the Australian security border protection by continually asking the question “What is being done to prevent these terrorist acts from the public? 7”

In this assignment I will underpin how the multi agency team can help safeguarding children’s rights linking in to practise, with past, present and future legislation including policies and procedures which have protected children and families and also safeguarding incidents that have changed our practice. The assignment will discuss safeguarding across the board from settings, local and national policies and procedures, what they

This assignment will address how children’s rights are being breached within the UK. Focusing mainly on (The Crime and Disorder Act, 1998) which is an Act currently used within the UK’s society. . (The Crime and Disorder Act, 1998) covers almost all aspects of children’s rights, however the main provisions of the Act are; Antisocial Behaviour order (ASBO), parenting orders and sex offender’s orders. (The United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child, 1990) became part of the UK’s Law in 1992, it has 54 articles that cover child welfare and safeguarding under ever circumstance. The aim of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child aim is to keep children’s rights intact and do their best to ensure these rights are not

Today, it is nearly impossible for URMs to receive any government papers from EU states and they are often forgotten and left in detention centers for weeks or even months. In addition to prolonged periods of detention, Human Rights Watch reported that in detention centers “children face unsanitary and degrading conditions and abusive treatment, including detention with adults and ill-treatment by police. Under European and international standards, in the exceptional cases that an unaccompanied child is detained for his or her protection, conditions should be governed by the best interest of the child” (HRW, “Why Are You”). These conditions, however, are far from being in “the best interest of the child.” In fact, detention and refugee centers are extremely ineffective in protecting vulnerable children. These children are blatantly disregarded and left defenseless against abuse and sex-trafficking. This completely violates EU laws since children are supposed to be under the State’s protection. EU members can start alleviating the burden URMs by cutting down holding periods and by following the guidelines of international human rights instruments as well as domestic laws. Otherwise, if minors are left in the same inhospitable conditions and circumstances in Europe, are their human rights any more realized than under the oppressive regimes they left

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of "discrimination" is the act of making or perceiving a difference. Immigration to the United States can be very hard due to people who enter a country lack of access to legal documents and the expensive nature of entering into a country. The United States

The study emphasized on the encounters and experiences of irregular migrant children who, via a number of different routes and circumstances, to live in the United Kingdom short of legal dwelling status and inhabitant youngsters who stay with a minimum of one unauthorized parent. The study reveals the numerous techniques in which inadequate legal status influence the well-being of child migrants directly as well as through their parentages, influential their social worlds, and most significantly, their likelihoods for the future (Sigona, & Hughes, 2010).

From perusing this part, we were astounded at how constrained a discourse group truly could be. The conclusion was impossible at first, however these six confinements support in keeping up her proposal and enhancing it as she advances in her paper. It is for sure genuine that the discourse groups maintain the standards in light of the predominant gatherings in each, and along these lines ignoring the minorities. Practically like remembering the Civil Rights period where the minorities had no say. These discourse groups were working as a unified gathering with no recompense of adjusting the standard. We discovered her technique amazingly successful and persuading enough for myself to reexamine the legitimacy of the discourse group.

In this reflection I respond to the article “Asylum abuse: Is it overwhelming our borders?: Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary” which was published in (Judiciary.house.gov) on December 12th , 2013. The article reveals many important topics, the one topic I found most relevant and interesting to talk about is “Credible fear”. United States is well known to protect refugees who have fear in returning to their homeland under any circumstances.

To understand the concept of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it is necessary to see how CDA defines discourse. Discourse is not simply an isolated textual or dialogical structure (van Dijk, 1988). It is seen as socially constructed ways that do not only shape but also enable (social) reality (Foucault, 1977; Paltridge, 2006). It involves “a dialectical relationship between a particular discursive event and the situation(s), institution(s), and social structure(s) which frame it” (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997, p. 258). It also helps to establish power relations between social classes, gender, or majorities and minorities groups (Wodak & Meyer, 2009).