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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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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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Support to asylum seeker policies
2020The project investigated the relationships between ideologically conservative attitudes (social dominance orientation, SDO; right-wing authoritarianism, RWA), legitimizing myths (false belief in asylum seekers as bogus; perception of in-group threats), and citizens’ support for restricted reception and rejection of asylum policies in a sample of 539 ...
Mancini, Tiziana, Caricati, Luca
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The Treatment of Asylum Seekers in the UK
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2007Immigration and asylum policy has been one of the most politically and publicly divisive issues in the United Kingdom and other liberal democracies in the last 20 years.
Iain McDonald, Peter Billings
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Detention of asylum seekers in Australia
The Lancet, 2002Australia 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, 2006In 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 *
1988The 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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