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Detention of asylum seekers in Australia

The Lancet, 2002
Australia places many asylum seekers who have broken no law in open-ended terms of detention. Reports indicate that compromises are being made in the provision of ethical health care offered by the private company Australasian Correctional Management which is responsible for operating the detention centers in Australia on behalf of the federal ...
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Medical Evaluation of Asylum Seekers [PDF]

, 2014
An asylum seeker is a refugee who enters the United States without legal status, fleeing persecution or torture. Asylums seekers have suffered physical and/or emotional trauma due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion in their native country.
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Guardianship of Child Asylum-Seekers

Federal Law Review, 2006
In 1994, the Commonwealth Parliament passed an amendment to the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946 (Cth) (the ‘Immigration (GOC) Act’), which provided that the Minister is guardian of ‘every non-citizen child who arrives in Australia’. Although the Immigration (GOC) Act was originally enacted with respect to children who entered Australia ...
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Non-Refoulement and the New Asylum Seekers *

1988
The flight across frontiers by those in fear for their lives or freedom1 raises critical issues in the field of international protection. The legal protection of such individuals is often exclusively identified with the application of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees,2 particularly with articles 1 (defining refugees3) and 33 ...
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The Asylum-Seeker

2014
This chapter discusses the principle of asylum. The Greek word asulia, which is somewhat misleadingly translated as “asylum,” literally means “not plundering” or in the case of an individual “the condition of not being plundered or abducted [viz from a sanctuary].” In theory at least asulia offered refuge for all, irrespective of a person's political ...
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Asylum Seekers

2015
Abstract not available.
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Antenatal care for asylum seekers

Medical Journal of Australia, 2015
Mark Parrish, Paul J Bretz, William J Milford, Anthony Renshaw, Gregory J Duncombe   +4 more
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Asylum seekers in British prisons

The Lancet, 1991
Derek Summerfield, Caroline Gorst-Unsworth   +1 more
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‘Between heaven and hell’: Subjective well‐being of asylum seekers

International Journal of Social Welfare, 2021
Pertti Väisänen, Sinikka Pöllänen, Ville R Hartonen   +2 more
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A Systematic Review of Factors Affecting Mental Health and Well-Being of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Germany

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
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