scholarly journals Detention attention: Framing a Manus Island riot

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Ellis ◽  
Janet Fulton ◽  
Paul Scott
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Research Project ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Processing Centre ◽  
The Guardian

This article reports on a research project that investigated the framing of asylum seekers in the Australian news publicationsThe Australian and The Guardian Australia Edition, during their coverage of a riot that occurred in an asylum seeker processing centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, in February 2014. Analysis found themes of asylum seekers represented as threats to national identity, State sovereignty, and as victims. The research discusses the potential impacts framing may have on the way asylum seekers are perceived by readers of these publications. Its findings showed that the process of framing in news reports can both privilege and exclude aspects of an event being reported.

Irregular Maritime Migration and the Pacific Solution Mark II: Back to the Future for Refugee Law and Policy in Australia?

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Billings
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Legal Challenges

Following a rise in the number of irregular maritime arrivals seeking refugee protection in Australia, and two successful legal challenges to their refugee processing policies, the Labor Government has resuscitated notorious aspects of the ‘Pacific Solution’ as part of a ‘no advantage’ policy. This strategy seeks to deter ‘irregular’ asylum seekers by treating them no more favourably than refugees seeking protection from overseas awaiting entry to Australia through regular refugee/humanitarian channels. In furtherance of this ‘no advantage’ policy, extra-territorial processing on Nauru and Papua New Guinea has been re-introduced and ‘excision’ provisions are to be extended to mainland Australia placing the continent outside of its ‘migration zone’ and, therefore, asylum seekers beyond the regular laws and processes for protection seekers. This article analyses the seismic shifts in asylum seeker policy that have occurred in Australia over the recent past and the politics underpinning them.

scholarly journals ‘What better excuse for a real adventure’: History, Memory and Tourism on the Kokoda Track

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Military History ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methodology ◽  
Battlefield Tourism

Rapidly growing numbers of Australian tourists visiting overseas battle sites associated with Australian military history have been met with enthusiastic academic interest by historians, yet the vast majority of studies focus on Gallipoli, rather than the Kokoda Track. Prior to 2001, few tourists had undertaken a journey along the narrow jungle pathway, which winds 96km through the Owen Stanley Ranges in Papua New Guinea. Just over a decade later, the track supports a competitive tourism industry, dominated by Australian companies, and attracts thousands of trekkers each year. This paper applies an interdisciplinary methodology to better understand the duality of locations of battlefield tourism as sites of commemoration and, unavoidably, sites of commerce. A survey of 107 trekkers suggests that, in addition to an expression of national identity, the mythology associated with the Kokoda Track has been appropriated by Australian tourists to represent individualistic goals of personal development and transformation: meanings that originate from the site’s history but extend beyond it.

scholarly journals The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre: A Legal Taxonomy

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-451
Author(s):  
Nikolas Feith Tan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Processing Centre ◽  
Migration Control

Abstract This article considers the controversial cooperative migration control approach of extraterritorial asylum through a case study of the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre (RPC), in operation between 2012 and 2017. Rather than operating in a ‘legal black hole’, the RPC was the site of legal contestation, as refugees and their lawyers turned to various legal fora in an attempt to hold Australia, Papua New Guinea and private contractors responsible for violations of human rights law. The recent closure of the RPC, as a result of litigation in the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court, shows that just as States employ a broad range of deterrence policies, refugee lawyers have an emerging ‘toolbox’ at their disposal to challenge extraterritorial asylum policies. The Manus Island RPC experience holds lessons for future litigation on policies of extraterritorial asylum, presenting both opportunities and risks for policymakers and refugee lawyers alike.

Measuring Attitudes to National Identity and Nation-building in Papua New Guinea

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Feeny ◽  
Michael Leach ◽  
James Scambary
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
New Guinea

scholarly journals Analisis Kebijakan Kevin Rudd terkait Pencari Suaka di Australia dalam PNG Solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-125
Author(s):  
Nurlaily Helmiyana
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
The Difference

Papua New Guinea Solution is a bilateral relationship between Australia under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Papua New Guinea regarding anti-resettlement conducted by people who want to access Australia and obtain refugee status by boat. This solution was taken after Kevin Rudd who came from the Australian Labor Party sent Pacific Solutions which had been used during Prime Minister Howard's administration. The difference in efforts to overcome the arrival of aid can be seen by using the Bureaucratic Model in its analysis. This effort was carried out with the aim of securing Australia. The problem is that Australia ratified the 1951 Refugees conference. The essence of PNG Solutions is individuals or groups who come to Australia who can pass Australia, and without a visa and a clear identity are not allowed into Australia and will be sent in Papua New Guinea. Australia's national interests can hurt ratified conventions. This study uses a qualitative method using secondary resources, and analysis uses the concept of securitization and uses Barry Buzan's research in his book People, State, and Fear. Then the policy analysis is taken by Prime Minister Rudd by using the Bureaucratic Model due to bargaining in Australia's domestic politics. Keywords: PNG Solutions, Asylum Seeker, Australia’s Foreign Policy

scholarly journals Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers – Is Australia Complying With Its International Legal Obligations

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Jane Archbold
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The People ◽  
Strong Deterrent ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

<em>Australia has a number of international legal obligations in relation to asylum seekers and refugees. In the scheme of things, the number of asylum seekers and refugees who attempt to reach Australia by sea without a valid visa is relatively small. Since 2012, Australia has restored its legal framework of processing asylum seekers and refugees who arrive by sea offshore in Papua New Guinea and Nauru. There are a number of concerns with the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees at these offshore processing centres, highlighting concerns Australia is not complying with its international legal obligations. The primary justification of the current policies has been that a strong deterrent is required to deter the people-smuggling trade. However, the deterrent justification lacks evidence to support it, and is unable to justify breaches of some of the most fundamental obligations owed to refugees and asylum seekers.</em>

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