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The deliberate slander of Sudanese Australians by our leaders and media has had the predictable effect of increasing racial incidents against them. Is this related to the exclusion of South Sudanese, Somalian, and Iranian refugees from one strand of our humanitarian intake?
ETA: The feared other: Peter Dutton's and Australia's pathology around race (GA, 7 January 2018). "Dutton wants to persuade us that those who are most disempowered in our society are our greatest threat." This is an idea I encountered when researching my article on Talons of Weng-Chiang -- that the Victorians were afraid of (a) servants and (b) colonised peoples.
Stateless in Australia: new centre to shine light on those incarcerated without hope (GA, 27 March 2018). In 2017 Australia reported to the UNHCR that there were no stateless people here. This was false: there are 37, all held in immigration detention, some of them potentially indefinitely.
Scott Morrison's delay tactics tore refugee families apart, advocates say (GA, 30 January 2018). "The minister’s legal obligation was to make a decision on refugee applications within 90 days, but most decisions took between three and five years, and some people are still waiting for a final outcome."
Australian citizens wrongfully detained because of immigration failures, report finds (GA, 2 February 2018) | Domestic violence victims on temporary visas left with no escape due to legal loophole (ABC, 23 March 2018) | Ten-year-old boy refused visa for not having ‘employment’ (SBS, 19 July 2018). These aren't refugee stories, but each one is another example of the dangerous combination of bureaucracy and human lives. (The SBS headline is misleading - the young boy can't join his father and stepmother in Australia during his school holidays in case he tries to stay here, and they can't visit him in India because of visa requirements.)
The deliberate slander of Sudanese Australians by our leaders and media has had the predictable effect of increasing racial incidents against them. Is this related to the exclusion of South Sudanese, Somalian, and Iranian refugees from one strand of our humanitarian intake?
ETA: The feared other: Peter Dutton's and Australia's pathology around race (GA, 7 January 2018). "Dutton wants to persuade us that those who are most disempowered in our society are our greatest threat." This is an idea I encountered when researching my article on Talons of Weng-Chiang -- that the Victorians were afraid of (a) servants and (b) colonised peoples.
Stateless in Australia: new centre to shine light on those incarcerated without hope (GA, 27 March 2018). In 2017 Australia reported to the UNHCR that there were no stateless people here. This was false: there are 37, all held in immigration detention, some of them potentially indefinitely.
Scott Morrison's delay tactics tore refugee families apart, advocates say (GA, 30 January 2018). "The minister’s legal obligation was to make a decision on refugee applications within 90 days, but most decisions took between three and five years, and some people are still waiting for a final outcome."
Australian citizens wrongfully detained because of immigration failures, report finds (GA, 2 February 2018) | Domestic violence victims on temporary visas left with no escape due to legal loophole (ABC, 23 March 2018) | Ten-year-old boy refused visa for not having ‘employment’ (SBS, 19 July 2018). These aren't refugee stories, but each one is another example of the dangerous combination of bureaucracy and human lives. (The SBS headline is misleading - the young boy can't join his father and stepmother in Australia during his school holidays in case he tries to stay here, and they can't visit him in India because of visa requirements.)
