Refugee Update
Jul. 10th, 2018 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyThe US press have access to the children separated from their families by the government, and to the detention centres where they're held. If the Australian press had similar access, I'd like to think the outcry here would be similar. The New Yorker has some harrowing reporting on... what noun is correct? Can I call this an "atrocity", a form of "genocide"? Well. An E.R. Physician on What It’s Like to Treat Toddlers Who Have Been Separated from Their Parents at the Border (28 June 2018). Links to more at the end, if you can bear it.
Thai cave rescue: Why do we care so much about these trapped boys? (ABC, 9 July 2018). "Why does this tragedy capture the world's attention, when more long-term issues such as children in detention don't to the same extent? ... A key reason is simply that we can see the Thai soccer team. We're watching the rescue effort play out, and we can see the emotions of the boys and their families."
I wanted to mention some of the things I've learned while discussing refugee stuff on Reddit. Here's one:
Q: Why did so few refugees on Manus and Nauru choose to go to Cambodia?
A: They were terrified to go to an unknown, poor, and dangerous country, where they could not speak the language, and might not be allowed to settle permanently, or reunite with their families. (At least one refugee who did go to Cambodia warned others on Nauru not to follow suit.)
"I think Cambodia is not a safe place, it's a very poor country. I don't understand their language, there is lots of crime in Cambodia. I don't feel safe in Cambodia, I have no future in Cambodia." -- an Iranian refugee on Nauru
Outsourcing refugees: 'How will I survive' in Cambodia? (Al Jazeera, 5 April 2016)
The Cambodia agreement (factsheet from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, 30 January 2017)
(Some good news I found: Mohammed Rashid, a Rohingya refugee who was one of the few to accept the Cambodia offer, is currently doing OK.)
Thai cave rescue: Why do we care so much about these trapped boys? (ABC, 9 July 2018). "Why does this tragedy capture the world's attention, when more long-term issues such as children in detention don't to the same extent? ... A key reason is simply that we can see the Thai soccer team. We're watching the rescue effort play out, and we can see the emotions of the boys and their families."
I wanted to mention some of the things I've learned while discussing refugee stuff on Reddit. Here's one:
Q: Why did so few refugees on Manus and Nauru choose to go to Cambodia?
A: They were terrified to go to an unknown, poor, and dangerous country, where they could not speak the language, and might not be allowed to settle permanently, or reunite with their families. (At least one refugee who did go to Cambodia warned others on Nauru not to follow suit.)
"I think Cambodia is not a safe place, it's a very poor country. I don't understand their language, there is lots of crime in Cambodia. I don't feel safe in Cambodia, I have no future in Cambodia." -- an Iranian refugee on Nauru
Outsourcing refugees: 'How will I survive' in Cambodia? (Al Jazeera, 5 April 2016)
The Cambodia agreement (factsheet from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, 30 January 2017)
(Some good news I found: Mohammed Rashid, a Rohingya refugee who was one of the few to accept the Cambodia offer, is currently doing OK.)
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Date: 2018-07-14 06:16 am (UTC)