scholarly journals Traffic Policy towards the Current of Refugees and Subscribers Movement in Reforming State Sovereignty

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Lisda Syamsumardian ◽  
Abdul Rachmad Budiono ◽  
Moh. Fadli ◽  
Dhiana Puspitawati
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Monitoring Mechanism ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Countries like Indonesia that have immigration routes will look at every foreigner’s problem from an immigration point of view. Foreigners who enter Indonesia without travel documents are considered illegal. When referring to concrete cases, generally refugees or asylum seekers may not have complete travel documents. Because it is impossible for them to be forced to leave their country, by first obtaining a visa, passport, or other correspondence. In most cases that occur, refugees or asylum seekers do not have complete travel documents. So, in order to maintain sovereignty in the authority of immigration supervision, it is very important to research related Immigration traffic. The problem raised in this paper is how the monitoring mechanism of immigration traffic, in order to reinforce the concept of sovereignty. In writing this journal the author uses a statutory approach, a case approach, and a sociological approach. The method used in this paper is a normative juridical method so that answers will be found in the form of a descriptive perspective. The conclusion in this paper is that the policy on the flow of refugee movements into Indonesia is not in accordance with the concept of sovereignty, where the regulation of the flow of refugee movements is very vulnerable to the aspects of crime (trafficking in persons, narcotics, prostitution, etc.), in fact the sovereignty of the state become a protector for refugees who come to Indonesia, from international and national crime systems, and that is often misunderstood. So, the suggestion from this research is that immigration should be given space in the framework of supervision for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, which have been under the authority of the Immigration Detention Center (RUDENIM).

scholarly journals The May 2015 boat crisis: the Rohingya in Aceh

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Thom
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
Aceh Province ◽  
Bangladeshi Migrants ◽  
East Asia Region ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
National Approach

The 2015 discovery of mass graves in Thailand’s Sadao district, on the border with Malaysia, led to a crack-down on people smugglers by the Thai and Malaysian authorities. Thousands of Rohingya (as well as Bangladeshi migrants) were left stranded in the Andaman Sea as smugglers abandoned their human cargo. Initially pushed back by the Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian navies, it was only after Indonesian fishermen rescued three boats that approximately 1,800 people were permitted to disembark in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The crisis in the Andaman Sea brought into sharp relief the fact that the South East Asia region lacks even the most basic regional protection (or cooperation) framework. While some states are still reticent, there have been attempts to improve government collaboration as demonstrated recently in the March 2016 Bali Declaration on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons, and Related Transnational Crime. This paper examines, however, how the ad hoc approach by Indonesia’s regions, in particular Aceh, to the treatment of the Rohingya who arrived in Aceh in May 2015, works against a comprehensive, national, rights-based approach to protect those seeking asylum in Indonesia. The paper explores the reasons why Aceh chose not to engage with the established practices for the treatment of asylum seekers in Indonesia and the human rights impacts this has had on those rescued. It concludes that the current situation in Aceh is not sustainable. The treatment of refugees in Aceh should be included in a broader national approach, commensurate with the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers throughout Indonesia, particularly if Indonesia is to develop a structured, rights-based approach to those seeking protection. This would then play a significant role in any future regional protection framework. 

scholarly journals Biopolitics, borders, and refugee camps: exercising sovereign power over nonmembers of the state†

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Zeveleva
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
Treat All ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Relationship

This article addresses the relationship between the concepts of national identity and biopolitics by examining a border-transit camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers in Germany. Current studies of detention spaces for migrants have drawn heavily on Agamben's reflection on the “camp” and “homo sacer,” where the camp is analyzed as a space in a permanent state of exception, in which the government exercises sovereign power over the refugee as the ultimate biopolitical subject. But what groups of people can end up at a camp, and does the government treat all groups in the same way? This article examines the German camp for repatriates, refugees, and asylum seekers as a space where the state's borders are demarcated and controlled through practices of bureaucratic and narrative differentiation among various groups of people. The author uses the concept of detention space to draw a theoretical link between national identity and biopolitics, and demonstrates how the sovereign's practices of control and differentiation at the camp construct German national identity through defining “nonmembers” of the state. The study draws on ethnographic fieldwork at the Friedland border transit camp and on a discourse analysis of texts produced at the camp or for the camp.

scholarly journals States of mind – political theatre at the age of nomadism

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 531-538
Author(s):  
Michal Lachman
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
German Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Potential Failure ◽  
Creative Artists ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract The review article comments on major themes and ideas analysed by S.E. Wilmer’s Performing Statelessness in Europe (Palgrave 2018). Wilmer’s analysis offers an overview of most recent as well as historical approaches to the concept of citizenship and the state which have been developed by avant-garde artists and theatre makers. The overall aim of Wilmer’s survey of political art is to “assess strategies by creative artists to address matters relating to social justice”. He also gives a significant amount of attention to various projects carried by German theatres which attempt to integrate resident immigrants into German society. The central thrust of his argument falls on a variety of contemporary theatrical initiatives directly concerned with the life of refugees and asylum seekers. The review highlights those aspects of Wilmer’s argument which directly concern the concept of modern society, nation state and identity. Wilmer shows precisely these aspects of modern state as most destructive. The review questions that assumption, arguing that the criticism of modern society should be more subtle and nuanced and that the potential failure of responding properly to the crisis does not necessarily lie entirely on the side of the state

scholarly journals FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PENYALAHGUNAAN DOKUMEN KEIMIGRASIAN PENCARI SUAKA DI KOTA MAKASSAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Andi Fikri Fauzi Alimuddin ◽  
Ruslan Renggong ◽  
Baso Madiong
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Limited Budget ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Government ◽  
Specific Regulation ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nation

Kota Makassar sebagai salah satu tempat favorit bagi para pengungsi dan pencari suaka sebagai tempat transit sementara sebelum berangkat ke negara tujuan.  Fenomena kemunculan pengungsi dan pencari suaka di kota Makassar  seringkali dianggap membawa efek negatif bagi negara transit terkhusus Kota Makassar, dimana para pengungsi berpotensi melakukan tindakan-tindakan Penyalahgunaan Izin Keimigrasian serta dari aspek ekonomi akan membebankan Pemerintah karena harus menyediakan fasilitas yang diambil dari pajak masyarakat.. Pemerintah Indonesia tidak mempunyai aturan khusus yang mengatur mengenai perlindungan penanganan dan pengawasan pengungsi dan pencari suaka yang jelas. Hal ini kadang membuat penanganan dan pengawasan pengungsi dan pencari suaka di Kota Makassar tidak berjalan secara maksimal.  Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah Penelitian Lapangan (Field Research) dikombinasikan dengan Penelitian Kepustakaan (Library Research). Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah United Nation High Comission for Refugees (UNHCR) perwakilan Makassar, Kantor Imigrasi kota Makassar, Rumah Detensi Imigrasi kota Makassar dan pengungsi dan pencari suaka yang berada di rumah rumah penampungan sementara di Kota Makassar. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah wawancara dan dokumentasi yang kemudian dianalisis secara kualitatif dan dituangkan dalam bentuk deksriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya penanganan dan pengawasan pengungsi dan pencari suaka yang berada di kota Makassar yang belum maksimal di karenakan beberapa faktor antaran lain, ketidakjelasan payung hukum pelaksanaan tugas, terbatasnya anggran dalam pemenuhan sarana dan prasarana penanaganan dan pengawasan  pengungsi dan pencari suaka di Kota Makassar. Makassar City is one of favorite places for refugees and asylum seekers as a temporary transit point before leaving for the destination country. Phenomenon of the emergence of refugees and asylum seekers in Makassar is often considered to have negative effects on transit countries, especially in Makassar City, where the refugees have the potential to commit the acts of abuse of immigration permits, and in economic aspect this will burden the Government to provide facilities taken from public taxes. The Indonesian government does not have a specific regulation to set the protection of handling and supervision of refugees and asylum seekers clearly. It sometimes makes the handling and supervision of refugees and asylum seekers in Makassar City not running optimally.  The research method used is Field Research combined with Library Research. The population of the study were the United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representatives in Makassar, Immigration Office of Makassar, Immigration Detention Center of Makassar, refugees and asylum seekers residing in temporary shelters in Makassar City. Techniques of data collection are interviews and documentation which are then analyzed qualitatively and set forth in a descriptive form. The results showed that the handling and supervision of refugees and asylum seekers in Makassar City was not optimal due to several factors, such as the unclear, legal basis for the implementation of duties, limited budget in fulfilling the facilities and infrastructure for handling and supervision as well as limited officers in handling and supervision of refugees and asylum seekers in Makassar City.

Rescuing the State?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Agius
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Middle Powers ◽  
Gender Lens

This chapter explores how two middle powers, Sweden and Australia, deploy the politics of protection in different ways. Sweden’s efforts to remake the state is viewed through a gender lens as part of efforts to disentangle its former neutral profile through more robust military applications, whilst embodying a peaceful self-narrative linked to military non-alignment, active internationalism and a ‘feminist foreign policy’. The second case explores efforts to reclaim a bounded concept of the sovereign state in Australia's masculinist and militarized approach to securing its borders with respect to asylum seekers. Australia seeks to reclaim a more traditional imagining of the state, or a return to ‘restoring’ state sovereignty perceived to be under threat by globalising forces. Both case studies explore the inherently gendered and securitized reworking and revisioning of the state, and the tensions and contradictions that emerge in questions of security, sovereignty and identity.

scholarly journals Asylum seekers and refugees in Austria: public policy and attitudes

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (35) ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Andrej PŘÍVARA
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Oil Shocks ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Inclusive Policy ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Austria continues to be one of the most attractive countries for asylum seekers among all EU countries. The main objective of this paper is to identify how the current political status of refugees and asylum seekers influences the Austrian economy. This study has shown that oil shocks had highly negative consequences for migrants in Austria. When accessing the Austrian labor market, some of the most striking features that affect the participation of migrants are discrimination based on restricted accessibility to high-wage sectors and pay gaps and discrimination in recruitment. However, the econometric analysis shows that immigration flows have a positive effect on the economic growth of the country. On the other hand, the results showed that there was prejudice and incorrect reporting, which increased the illegalization of asylum seekers. All of these factors create obstacles for immigrants to properly integrate into the labor market. However, the results of the panel data analysis among European countries has shown that the immigration flow has had a positive impact on GDP growth. Labor market conditions for immigrants become crucial from this point of view. It can be concluded that the national asylum policy in Austria was progressively limiting and outweighed Austrian humanitarian interests. A more inclusive policy could contribute to the economic growth of the country.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTERS IN THE PROTECTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Andreas Agustinus Simamora ◽  
Surya Pranata
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Food Needs

The mobility of foreigners in Indonesia is very numerous and varied. One of them is an asylum seeker who entered Indonesia without immigration documents. In handling immigration violations and to accommodate the asylum seekers, an Immigration Detention Center was formed to provide them with the fulfillment of human rights. This study aims to identify and analyze the Semarang Immigration Detention Center in fulfilling human rights for asylum seekers and to identify and analyze the supporting and inhibiting factors faced. This type of research uses sociological juridical and data analysis using a qualitative approach method. The research data were obtained through interviews and documentation. Meanwhile, the data processing is done through data collection, data presentation, data analysis, and conclusions. The Semarang Immigration Detention Center itself in fulfilling human rights for asylum seekers is carried out by providing structured programs, namely health check services, providing food needs and providing access to education for asylum seekers. Supporting factors are the Semarang Immigration Detention Center in collaboration with related parties, namely PKBI and the Hospital to provide human rights fulfillment for asylum seekers and the enthusiasm of asylum seekers who always participate in the programs and activities given. The inhibiting factors are the absence of medical personnel who are on standby 24 hours, the unavailability of a warehouse for storing medicines, and the language used in communication as well as the different tastes of the food menu for each detainee there.

scholarly journals Penanggulangan Orang Asing Yang Menjadi Korban Perdagangan Orang dan Penyeludupan Manusia di Bidang Keimigrasian

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1011
Author(s):  
Zeleta Feba Haprifanyuna ◽  
Mohammad Iqbal ◽  
Raditya Pandya Kusuma
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Laws And Regulations ◽  
Administrative Actions ◽  
State Representatives

Indonesia is a country that attracts the attention of foreigners to visit Indonesia. The number of foreign enthusiasts to visit the territory of Indonesia makes immigration a gateway for a country that is very picky in allowing foreigners to enter Indonesia. procedures that are deemed too difficult, individuals appear who can make it easier for foreigners to enter Indonesian territory. because of this, many people take advantage of it to gain profits by committing crimes in the form of human trafficking and people smuggling. This study describes the handling of foreigners who are victims of human trafficking and people smuggling in accordance with existing laws and regulations. In addition, the implementation of statutory regulations in terms of handling foreigners who become victims of trafficking in persons and people smuggling has been carried out by the Immigration Office in the form of placing foreigners in the Immigration Detention Center or other designated places without being subject to Immigration Administrative Actions and also different handling with detainees for other cases, as well as managing files and data from victims of trafficking in persons and people smuggling so that they can be immediately repatriated to their countries of origin. In repatriating victims to their countries of origin, immigration cooperates with the ministry of foreign affairs to coordinate with state representatives in Indonesia.

Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the State of Israel

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tally Kritzman-Amir ◽  
Yvette Shumacher
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The State ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
State Of Israel

scholarly journals Overload in Immigration Detention Houses

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
M. Ridwan Ari Hermawan ◽  
Devina Yuka Utami
Keyword(s):  
Operating Procedure ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Standard Operating Procedures ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Effective Supervision

Implementation of Standard Operating Procedure for Immigration Detention Center (Rudenim) is still not running smoothly or less effective. This is due to the confusion and contradictions in the statement of basic measures and policy objectives which have resulted in disciplinary regulations that intersect with Standard Operating Procedures regarding temporary exit permits for Deteni without escort. The level of supervision carried out by Rudenim is not optimal. The existing regulations have not been able to provide effective supervision so that violations may occur. If there is no current supervision of asylum seekers outside the shelter, it is possible that other bad things will happen, so there is a need for a good formulation of the Code of Conduct. And also the lack of rudenim at the Immigration Office in Indonesia which causes overload, resulting in unwanted cases.

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