scholarly journals Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Refugees in Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Anthea Vogl ◽  
Elyse Methven
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
State Power ◽  
Legal Authority ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Australian State ◽  
State Surveillance ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
And Control

This article critically examines techniques employed by the Australian state to expand its control of refugees and asylum seekers living in Australia. In particular, it analyses the operation of Australia’s unique Asylum Seeker Code of Behaviour, which asylum seekers who arrive by boat must sign in order to be released from mandatory immigration detention, with reference to an original dataset of allegations made under the Code. We argue that the Code and the regime of visa cancellation and re-detention powers of which it forms a part are manifestations of what Beckett and Murakawa call the ‘shadow carceral state’, whereby punitive state power is extended beyond prison walls through the blurring of civil, administrative and criminal legal authority. The Code contributes to Australia’s apparatus of refugee deterrence by adding to it a brutal system of surveillance, visa cancellation and denial of services for asylum seekers living in the community.

scholarly journals Protocol of a feasibility trial for an online group parenting intervention with an integrated mental health component for parent refugees and asylum-seekers in the United Kingdom: (LTP + EMDR G-TEP)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 205031212110678
Author(s):  
Safa Kemal Kaptan ◽  
Filippo Varese ◽  
Betul Yilmaz ◽  
Panoraia Andriopoulou ◽  
Nusrat Husain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Parenting Intervention ◽  
Feasibility Trial ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Parental Mental Health ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Poor Growth ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Objectives: Conflicts expose families to a range of factors that could have a negative impact upon parental mental health which in turn leads to poor growth and development of children. Early support can improve parental mental health and parenting behaviours but currently, there is a lack of evidence on parenting interventions for forcibly displaced populations. This study aims to deliver an online parenting intervention with a mental health component for refugee and asylum-seeker parents to evaluate its feasibility and acceptability. Methods: This is a single-arm trial without a control group. The trial aims to recruit 14 refugee and asylum-seeker parents into an Online Learning Through Play and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (LTP + EMDR G-TEP). The intervention will be delivered by trained research team members using online platforms. Results: The participants’ sense of parenting competence, symptoms of traumatic stress, anxiety and depression will be measured at baseline and post-intervention. Semi-structured interviews at post-intervention will also be conducted. Discussion: This study will assess the feasibility and inform the design of a future randomized controlled trial which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of LTP + EMDR G-TEP intervention for parent refugees and asylum-seekers with young children.

scholarly journals Migration, Refugees, and Racism in South Africa

Refuge ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 40-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Handmaker ◽  
Jennifer Parsley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
General Public ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Social Separation ◽  
The Impact

The paper looks at South Africa’s complex history and policies of racism, social separation and control and the impact that this has had on the nature of migration and refugee policy. The paper argues that this legacy has resulted in policy and implementation that is highly racialized, coupled with a society expressing growing levels of xenophobia. Some causes and manifestations of xenophobia in South Africa are explored. It further examines how actions of police and civil servants can mirror the sentiments of the general public, further disadvantaging refugees and migrants. The outcomes of the WCAR are discussed with acknowledgment of the positive gains made for refugees and asylum seekers. The implications for implementation are debated in light of the attacks on the USA. In conclusion, a number of recommendations are made including the need for ongoing public awareness strategies, the value of the WCAR Declarations as lobbying tools, a pragmatic and democratic policy process and the need to highlight development concerns in approaches to address these issues.

Refugees and Asylum Seekers as Victims: The Australian Case

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Jupp
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Safe Haven ◽  
Permanent Residence ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
Australian Case ◽  
The Right ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Australia has had two centuries of state planned and controlled immigration, with official policies excluding those felt undesirable for racial, social or economic reasons, Visa controls have been tightened in recent years even against the previously welcomed British. Australia has also accepted refugees for permanent settlement under the 1951 UN Convention. Since the 1990s this approach has been steadily modified, making it increasingly difficult to achieve settlement as an asylum seeker. Detention in prison-like camps, limitation of the right to permanent residence, and policies designed to expedite homeland return have all led to victimisation of the relatively small numbers seeking asylum outside the universal visa system. This has been accompanied by forcible removal to locations outside Australian territory and attempts to limit rights of appeal. Official demonisation of asylum seekers has damaged public acceptance of refugees, while draconian policies towards them have undermined Australia’s previous reputation as a safe haven.

scholarly journals Seeking Asylum—Holding Patterns: The 2020 Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize

Coolabah ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Bill Boyd ◽  
Emma Doolan ◽  
Ruth Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Poetry provides valuable and insightful ways to explore and record social and political experiences and engagements. The plight of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia is well known. Community groups such as the Ballina Region for Refugees provide support to refugees and asylum seekers both in Australia and offshore. To help raise awareness and validate the experience of refugees and asylum seekers, the Ballina Region for Refugees runs an annual Poetry Prize. The 2020 Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize theme was Seeking Asylum—Holding Patterns. This article presents the winning and highly commended poems, along with poems by refugee and asylum seeker poets. Poems from both insider witnesses – refugees and asylum seekers – and outsider witnesses – poets who seek to express an empathy with the plight of refugees and asylum seekers – have contributed to this collection. From haunting statements of human dissolution that should strike fear into anyone’s heart, through glimpses of hope, the poems explore the trails of asylum seeking and the dysfunctionality of the aftermath. 

A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Baker ◽  
Tony McEnery
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

A corpus-based analysis of discourses of refugees and asylum seekers was carried out on data taken from a range of British newspapers and texts from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees website, both published in 2003. Concordances of the terms refugee(s) and asylum seeker(s) were examined and grouped along patterns which revealed linguistic traces of discourses. Discourses which framed refugees as packages, invaders, pests or water were found in newspaper texts, although there were also cases of negative discourses found in the UNHCR texts, revealing how difficult it is to disregard dominant discourses. Lexical choice was found to be an essential aspect of maintaining discourses of asylum seekers — collocational analyses of terms like failed vs. rejected revealed the underlying attitudes of the writers towards the subject.

scholarly journals Health System Responses to the Health Needs of Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Malaysia: A Qualitative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 1584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Leh Hoon Chuah ◽  
Sok Teng Tan ◽  
Jason Yeo ◽  
Helena Legido-Quigley
Keyword(s):  
Health Systems ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
National Level ◽  
Refugee Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Comprehensive Health ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Background: This study was conducted to examine the responses and challenges in addressing the health needs of refugees and asylum-seekers in Malaysia from a health systems and policy perspective. Methods: Twenty semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants comprising experts, healthcare professionals and program personnel with professional experience in refugee health issues. Deductive and inductive analyses were conducted to identify themes. Results: Our study identified a broad range of actors involved in the response to refugee health locally, of which a greater alignment of interests, collaboration and sharing of responsibility is needed. From a health systems and policy perspective, financial constraints are among the key challenges in addressing the health needs of the refugee and asylum-seeker population in Malaysia. While participants reported high quality healthcare being present in Malaysia, this was not affordable to refugees and asylum seekers. Cultural and language discordance are also key challenges faced by healthcare workers in the delivery of services; accentuating the need for greater cultural competence and language support. Improved access to medication is needed for those with chronic illnesses in order to effectively address the comprehensive health needs of the refugee and asylum-seeker population. Conclusions: Suggested ways forward include adopting a comprehensive health advocacy strategy grounded in the right to healthcare for all; adopting a multi-sectoral approach; tackling the social determinants of health; seeking diversified funding at the global and national level; and improving coordination and collaboration between the various actors.

Infectious-disease Screening and Vaccination for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Entering Europe in 2015–16: A Scoping Study of Six European Union Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (Special_Issue_1) ◽  
pp. i92-i104
Author(s):  
Pierluca Piselli ◽  
Mariya Samuilova ◽  
Kayvan Bozorgmehr ◽  
Giuseppe Ippolito ◽  
Roumyana Petrova-Benedict ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Intestinal Parasites ◽  
Virus Infections ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
Adult Vaccination ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
And Control

Abstract In 2015, more than 1 million asylum seekers and refugees arrived in Europe. Information on how European countries addressed the prevention and control of infectious diseases among these populations during and after this period is limited. This study is based on 27 semi-structured interviews conducted with first-line staff and health officials in May–June 2016 in first-entry countries (Greece/Italy), transit countries (Croatia/Slovenia) and destination countries (Austria/Sweden). Characteristics of health-service provision for infectious diseases at each stage of reception, with a focus on tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, intestinal parasites and human immunodeficiency virus infections, were investigated. No major differences in the provision of services in accordance with migration status (asylum seekers vs refugees) were reported. At arrival, interventions were focused on addressing emerging health needs and no major barriers to accessing acute hospital care for infectious diseases were reported. There were shortcomings in interventions to tackle medium- to long-term needs with respect to infectious diseases, including screening for chronic treatable infections and adult vaccination. European evidence-based guidance highlighting the most relevant interventions for infectious diseases during the reception process is needed.

Attitudes Towards Refugees & Immigrants in Greece: a national-local comparative analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Paschalis Arvanitidis ◽  
◽  
George Papagiannitsis1 ◽  
Athina Zoi Desli ◽  
Penelope Vergou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Political Costs ◽  
Nation Wide Survey ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Eu

Over the past decade, Greece has received a significant number of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who, due to specific decisions taken at both the EU and the national levels, have been “trapped” in Greece for an indefinite period. Dealing with this situation was, and still is, a hot issue, with state policies remaining focused on reception and control rather than on integration. Moreover, the spatial allocation of refugees in specific places throughout the country raised further debate, as they often provoked reactions (of substantial political costs), given that different localities tend to exhibit different attitudes and views towards refugees and immigrants. Since these perceptions seem to exert a significant effect on the direction of public debate and state policy there have been a number of nationwide surveys that have sought to shed light on them. These studies certainly advance our understanding on how Greeks in totality perceive those issues, but they also suffer from serious limitations regarding the specificities that different localities exhibit. On their grounds, the current works seek to provide a comparative analysis between the results of a nation-wide survey and a locally contacted one, contrasting perceptions between people living in Athens metropolitan area and in three small-medium size cities in central Greece (Trikala, Larisa, and Volos), in order to identify similarities and differences in views between the different spatial scales.

scholarly journals Stuck and Exploited Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Exclusion Processes ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
Reception System ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
And Control

This volume analyses exclusion processes, segregation dynamics and the forms of discrimination of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy, where the reception system is marked by opaqueness and arbitrariness and is becoming increasingly similar to the model of “camps”. The numerous vibrant contributions present a fully-fledged system of inferiorization, characterised by labour exploitation, housing discomfort, meagre rights and control strategies, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a sharp worsening of the health, work, housing and administrative conditions. A framework that has found opposition in the daily resistance and in the struggles of asylum seekers.

scholarly journals Staff Perspectives of Safety Planning as a Suicide Prevention Intervention for People of Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Background

Crisis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Ferguson ◽  
Miriam Posselt ◽  
Heather McIntyre ◽  
Mark Loughhead ◽  
Mary-Anne Kenny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Suicide Prevention Training ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Abstract. Background: Safety planning involves the co-development of a personalized list of coping strategies to prevent a suicide crisis. Aims: We explored the perspectives of workers regarding safety planning as a suicide prevention strategy for people of refugee background and those seeking asylum in Australia. Method: Participants attended suicide prevention training, specific to refugees and asylum seekers, at which safety planning was a key component. Semistructured, posttraining interviews ( n = 12) were analyzed thematically. Results: Four key themes were identified: safety planning as a co-created, personalized activity for the client; therapeutic benefits of developing a safety plan; barriers to engaging in safety planning; strategies to enhance safety planning engagement. Limitations: First-hand refugee and asylum-seeker experiences were not included. Conclusion: As a relatively low-cost, flexible intervention, safety planning may be valuable and effective for these groups.

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