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Medical Journal of Australia, 2001
The medical profession can assist by reinforcing the principle of healthcare as a right, and opposing policies that contribute to poor health.
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The medical profession can assist by reinforcing the principle of healthcare as a right, and opposing policies that contribute to poor health.
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2021
The number of people displaced from their homes as the result of war, civil unrest, and persecution worldwide is now at the highest level on record. Around a fifth make it to affluent Western nations, prompting a marked rise in tension and in efforts to stem the tide by tightening quotas, clamping down on ‘illegals’, and erecting physical barriers ...
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The number of people displaced from their homes as the result of war, civil unrest, and persecution worldwide is now at the highest level on record. Around a fifth make it to affluent Western nations, prompting a marked rise in tension and in efforts to stem the tide by tightening quotas, clamping down on ‘illegals’, and erecting physical barriers ...
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BMJ, 1994
EDITOR, - In her news article Claudia Court states that 700 people are seeking asylum in Britain1; this is a considerable underestimate. The Home Office's latest figures show that 45 800 people were waiting for their applications to be processed at the end of 1993 (personal communication).
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EDITOR, - In her news article Claudia Court states that 700 people are seeking asylum in Britain1; this is a considerable underestimate. The Home Office's latest figures show that 45 800 people were waiting for their applications to be processed at the end of 1993 (personal communication).
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2001
The trauma stories of refugees are told in many different ways. Because of the complexity and difficulty of the experiences, the stories often are related as unstructured, and sometimes confusing, narratives. Some memories have been forgotten. Some are pronounced, intrusive, and painful.
J. David Kinzie, James M. Jaranson
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The trauma stories of refugees are told in many different ways. Because of the complexity and difficulty of the experiences, the stories often are related as unstructured, and sometimes confusing, narratives. Some memories have been forgotten. Some are pronounced, intrusive, and painful.
J. David Kinzie, James M. Jaranson
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2018
This chapter extends our use of the concept of social closure by examining both the strategies used by state officials and the counter-usurpation strategies employed by asylum seekers. The very obvious power differential means that it is the state that is always hegemonic in the processing system.
Steven Loyal, Stephen Quilley
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This chapter extends our use of the concept of social closure by examining both the strategies used by state officials and the counter-usurpation strategies employed by asylum seekers. The very obvious power differential means that it is the state that is always hegemonic in the processing system.
Steven Loyal, Stephen Quilley
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2017
Community development in Western countries is usually premised on the idea of a profession, occupation or as a component of social work and cognate disciplines. This chapter looks at “insider” community development without organizational links and examines attempts of an asylum seeker and refugee community in the West Java location of Cisarua to deal ...
Briskman, Linda (R18870), Fiske, Lucy
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Community development in Western countries is usually premised on the idea of a profession, occupation or as a component of social work and cognate disciplines. This chapter looks at “insider” community development without organizational links and examines attempts of an asylum seeker and refugee community in the West Java location of Cisarua to deal ...
Briskman, Linda (R18870), Fiske, Lucy
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Australia’s torture of asylum seekers [PDF]
BMJ, 2016 It’s time for doctors to march The Guardian newspaper’s publication of 8000 leaked pages alleging horrendous abuse and appalling conditions for detainees at Australia’s immigration detention centre on the Pacific island of Nauru has again brought Australia’s treatment of indefinitely imprisoned asylum seekers into sharp public focus.1 The so-called ...
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1988
The basic outlines of modern refugee law took shape in the years immediately after World War II, capped by the creation of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)2 and the adoption of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.3 This legal and organizational framework has proven remarkably durable, adapting even as the ...
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The basic outlines of modern refugee law took shape in the years immediately after World War II, capped by the creation of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)2 and the adoption of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.3 This legal and organizational framework has proven remarkably durable, adapting even as the ...
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Asylum Seekers and Methodology of Ascertainment
2017The protection of the right to seek asylum is one of the core functions of the United Nations, and a common International Asylum System is a constituent part of the United Nation’s objective. Forensic medicine plays an important role in this field, and in particular in the medical assessment of vulnerable asylum seekers.
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The removal of undesirable asylum seekers
2019In cases where a refugee status is denied or revoked, host states generally require asylum seekers to leave the country. The removal of failed asylum seekers has over the last decades been a major political issue in Europe, North America and Australia.
J. van Wijk, M.P. Bolhuis
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