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Torture, healthcare and Australian immigration detention [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016
Australia has arguably led the developed world in implementing the most damaging and regressive measures aimed at deterring asylum seekers and refugees. The harms of this system have long been documented and only re-enforced more recently in a number of investigations that have detailed riots, violence and widespread physical and sexual abuse in ...
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Immigration Detention

2015
Introduction: Understanding immigration detention and its human impact Stephanie J. Silverman and Amy Nethery 1. 'A Proud Tradition'? Immigration detention in the United Kingdom Melanie Griffiths 2. 'Guarding the External Border': Immigration detention in the Netherlands Galina Cornelisse 3.
Stephanie J. Silverman, Amy Nethery
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Visiting Immigration Detention

2022
Visiting Immigration Detention documents the experiences of friends, loved ones and supporters who visit detainees in Australian immigration detention facilities. In doing so, it makes three main contributions to knowledge. First, the book provides a rare qualitative account of how harm is enacted through carceral practices in Australia’s onshore ...
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Immigration Detention and Faith-based Organizations

Social Work, 2015
Immigration detention is a hot contemporary issue in the United States, with over 33,000 individuals held in detention facilities daily and reports of poor conditions and human rights abuses. Building on a growing body of theory exploring the role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in social services provision, and seeking to address a gap in the ...
Susanna Snyder, Noël Busch-Armendariz, Holly Bell   +2 more
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Children and young people in immigration detention

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 2012
This article reviews evidence about the impact of immigration detention and other restrictive immigration policies on the mental health of children, young people and the adults who care for them. We review the implications of this for clinicians attempting to assess or work with incarcerated child and adult refugees and asylum seekers.There are ...
Zachery Steel, Sarah Mares, Louise Newman, Michael Dudley   +3 more
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The Ethics of Australian Immigration Detention

2020
In this chapter I will consider the ethics of Australian immigration detention. I will first outline the literature that has discussed the ethics of migration more generally and then will apply this to consider the circumstances in Australia. I start from a point that attempts to strike a balance between what is ethical and what is feasible in the ...
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Immigration Detention Globally

2016
This chapter provides an overview of the use of immigration detention globally. It outlines the rising use of detention in North America, Europe and Australia and describes a range of detention environments, problematic practices and policy frameworks.
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Prolonged immigration detention, complicity and boycotts

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017
Australia’s punitive policy towards people seeking asylum deliberately causes severe psychological harm and meets recognised definitions of torture. Consequently, there is a tension between doctors’ obligation not to be complicit in torture and doctors’ obligation to provide best possible care to their patients, including those seeking asylum.
Melanie Jansen, David Isaacs, David Isaacs, Alanna Sue Tin   +3 more
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Reforming Australian Immigration Detention

2020
In this chapter I will outline the change that the healthcare community should demand from the Australian government, the constraints on achieving said change and some fundamental reasons why present approaches to healthcare are not enough to challenge these constraints. First, I will outline an alternate vision for future policy.
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Healthcare and complicity in Australian immigration detention

Monash Bioethics Review, 2016
Australian immigration detention has received persistent criticism since its introduction almost 25 years ago. With the recent introduction of offshore processing, these criticisms have intensified. Riots, violence, self-harm, abuse and devastating mental health outcomes are all now well documented, along with a number of deaths. Clinicians have played
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