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Infiltrators or Asylum Seekers? Framing and Attitudes Toward Asylum Seekers in Israel [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 2015
This study asks whether framing asylum seekers in Israel as “infiltrators” posing threats to the country amplifies exclusion toward them. The term “infiltrators” associates asylum seekers with the anti-infiltration law passed in the 1950s to fight terrorists and dissociates asylum seekers from their unique position as holders of special rights.
Oshrat Hochman
exaly   +3 more sources

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
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Emotions

2021
Abstract The issue of asylum seekers and refugees is one of the most contested political issues in Australia. This chapter examines ensuing debates, focusing closely on how refugees and asylum seekers are perceived and responded to in relation to the spatial and emotional dynamics that prevail in Australian society and politics ...
Bleiker, Roland   +2 more
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The Treatment of Asylum Seekers in the UK

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2007
Immigration 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, 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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Consistency of Autobiographical Memories in Asylum Seekers

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2008
: When applying for asylum in a new country,refugees are interviewed by immigration authorities aboutevents they experienced prior to emigrating. Since there isusually no documentary evidence regarding past traumaticevents experienced in the country of origin, legal decisionpertaining to status may rest on the credibility of the appli-cant’s narrative.
Eytan, Ariel   +3 more
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Australia’s torture of asylum seekers

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 removal of undesirable asylum seekers

2019
In 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.
van Wijk, J., Bolhuis, Maarten
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Asylum Seekers and Methodology of Ascertainment

2017
The 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.
Visentin, Sindi   +3 more
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