Refugee Update
Oct. 12th, 2017 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easySome analysis. Some of these items date back a couple of years. Horribly, they're still relevant.
What's Driving the Merciless Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia? (Truth Out, 17 March 2015)
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Why We Torture Asylum Seekers, But Were Too Afraid To Ask (New Matilda, 27 May 2015)
'Queue jumpers' and 'boat people': the way we talk about refugees began in 1977 (GA, 5 June 2015)
Neither helpless nor silent (Overland, 20 August 2015). About the Behind the Wire project, which collects the personal accounts of people in, or survivors of, mandatory detention.
These are the people Australia didn't want — the controversial Tampa refugees reveal life now (news.com.au, 12 June 2016)
Northern Territory abuse reflects Australia's detention culture, says Gillian Triggs (GA, 26 July 2016) | Into the dark heart of the Don Dale Detention Centre, focus of NT abuse claims (SMH, 29 July 2016) Discusses abuse on the part of youth detention centre guards, with obvious parallels to immigration detention. | Spit masks used against asylum seekers in Australian detention centres (SMH, 4 August 2016) The hoods are used in all kinds of institutions, including immigration detention.
The plight of the Hazara: we can't bear any more tragedy (GA, 5 August 2016)
'Non-people', the bounds of humanity, and one person's story of survival (GA, 10 February 2017). "In another era this refugee – with his work ethic, his skills, his excellent English and his bravery – would have made Australia proud."
We can stop the boats and also act decently, fairly and transparently (GA, 14 February 2017)
Asylum seeker boat turnbacks illegal and don't deter people, report finds (GA, 2 May 2017)
25 years of mandatory detention – from 'interim measure' to immovable policy (GA, 25 May 2017)
Asio head tells Pauline Hanson there is 'no evidence' of link between refugees and terrorism (GA, 26 May 2017)
Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Program 2017-18: Community views on current challenges and future direction. Refugee Council of Australia report, June 2017.
ETA: How Europe's far right fell in love with Australia's immigration policy (GA, 12 October 2017). "European nativist parties have embraced Australia’s hardline tactics for managing asylum seekers and refugees – but their true agenda is to keep Muslims out."
Yearning for the end of the world (GA, 25 August 2017). A remarkable piece by an Iranian refugee, a Christian who eventually escaped to the US. "The Rapture story offers a known future that you don't have to build yourself. It happens in an instant: before you're done with one life, you're whisked into another. And that is everything – skipping that in-between space, the country of purgatory where the refugee lingers. 'If you've ever been a refugee,' my mother says, 'you know how much that matters.'"
Finally, Autopsy, a poem by Sherman Alexie. It's about President Trump's immigration ban, but it resonates painfully.
What's Driving the Merciless Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia? (Truth Out, 17 March 2015)
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Why We Torture Asylum Seekers, But Were Too Afraid To Ask (New Matilda, 27 May 2015)
'Queue jumpers' and 'boat people': the way we talk about refugees began in 1977 (GA, 5 June 2015)
Neither helpless nor silent (Overland, 20 August 2015). About the Behind the Wire project, which collects the personal accounts of people in, or survivors of, mandatory detention.
These are the people Australia didn't want — the controversial Tampa refugees reveal life now (news.com.au, 12 June 2016)
Northern Territory abuse reflects Australia's detention culture, says Gillian Triggs (GA, 26 July 2016) | Into the dark heart of the Don Dale Detention Centre, focus of NT abuse claims (SMH, 29 July 2016) Discusses abuse on the part of youth detention centre guards, with obvious parallels to immigration detention. | Spit masks used against asylum seekers in Australian detention centres (SMH, 4 August 2016) The hoods are used in all kinds of institutions, including immigration detention.
The plight of the Hazara: we can't bear any more tragedy (GA, 5 August 2016)
'Non-people', the bounds of humanity, and one person's story of survival (GA, 10 February 2017). "In another era this refugee – with his work ethic, his skills, his excellent English and his bravery – would have made Australia proud."
We can stop the boats and also act decently, fairly and transparently (GA, 14 February 2017)
Asylum seeker boat turnbacks illegal and don't deter people, report finds (GA, 2 May 2017)
25 years of mandatory detention – from 'interim measure' to immovable policy (GA, 25 May 2017)
Asio head tells Pauline Hanson there is 'no evidence' of link between refugees and terrorism (GA, 26 May 2017)
Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Program 2017-18: Community views on current challenges and future direction. Refugee Council of Australia report, June 2017.
ETA: How Europe's far right fell in love with Australia's immigration policy (GA, 12 October 2017). "European nativist parties have embraced Australia’s hardline tactics for managing asylum seekers and refugees – but their true agenda is to keep Muslims out."
Yearning for the end of the world (GA, 25 August 2017). A remarkable piece by an Iranian refugee, a Christian who eventually escaped to the US. "The Rapture story offers a known future that you don't have to build yourself. It happens in an instant: before you're done with one life, you're whisked into another. And that is everything – skipping that in-between space, the country of purgatory where the refugee lingers. 'If you've ever been a refugee,' my mother says, 'you know how much that matters.'"
Finally, Autopsy, a poem by Sherman Alexie. It's about President Trump's immigration ban, but it resonates painfully.
