Asylum Seekers Analysis

Every human being is created in the image and likeness of God and therefore should be treated accordingly. Equality and social justice are additional factors that contribute to the response of Australian society in welcoming refugees throughout history. The vietnamese refugees of the 1970’s were welcomed by society in an attempt to shift away from the ‘White Australia Policy’. Charities and church organisations such as the Australian Red Cross also provided assistance with clothing, housing and other required adjustments for example education. These positive elements created fairness and equal opportunities for the refugees. However, some individuals remained loyal to the White Australia policy and were racist and discriminatory towards the easily identifiable refugees. Even members of the Catholic church persisted to be intolerant of refugees. Nevertheless, in present day, the Church is significantly more accepting of refugees by supporting charities, increasing awareness, working alongside refugees and providing aid to asylum seekers. Within the general society, some groups and individuals are still unfortunately racially prejudiced because of their lack of knowledge. However, a large percentage of the population are accepting of refugees; often indulging in foreign cuisines and continually strengthening or creating international relationships. The fair treatment and equality for all human beings has a notable impact on both the Church's and Australia’s perspective regarding

The Australian Catholics Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO) is an organisation that contributes to public discussion of crucial issues, using their religious beliefs as a basis for its contributions. The ACMRO was established by the Australian Catholics Bishops Conference on 1st July 1995. It is designed to advise and serve the Australian Catholics Bishops Conference at both a national and international level on migrant and refugee issues. To act as an official Church voice relating to migrants and refugees. To make appropriate representation to Government and other bodies on matters relating to migrants and refugees. According to the Church teaching on the issue, Pope Francis states “Violence, exploitation, discrimination, marginalisation, restrictive approaches to fundamental freedoms, whether of individuals or of groups: these are some of the chief elements of poverty which need to be overcome.” It is through this organisation that agencies can be run. They come under the ACMRO umbrella, such as the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project (BASP), Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) and the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC).

Pedersen’s article is quite confrontational outlining the major issues that Australian individuals portray today, through their beliefs and thoughts about asylum seekers and Indigenous Australians. The sample group taken in Perth, is used as a representation of the wider population of Australia, with majority of Australians revealing a strong negative view against both groups. “It was found that people are becoming increasingly hostile” (Pedersen, A. Clarke, S. Dudgeon, P & Griffiths, B 2005) and are becoming ignorant and unsympathetic about the current situations that the two groups face today. This is mainly due to the general aspect of racism, being misinformed and uneducated about the events that these cultures have faced or are still dealing

The Australian Human Rights Commission headed an inquiry into the children living conditions in detention centres and through this inquiry accumulated evidence of human rights breaches, breached by to Australian Government in relation to children. One such area they documented was concerning the provision of clothing and footwear provided to children. After conducting this inquiry they found that the delivery of essential goods was inadequate for many children in detention centres. A 13 year-old girl living on Nauru explained her struggles living with little clothing,

However, by challenging the simplistic accounts transmitted by the Government and the media in regards to Australia’s attitude towards asylum seekers, this essay seeks to explore whether current communication practices can be justified, as well as how society can improve on its transmission of information in regards to moral panics and social issues.

Many flee as a result of faith based persecution, others for their race, sexual category, or maybe ethnicity while a few precede due to their politics stances, faith based affiliations or maybe social rank. This kind of exploration will probably focus on problems faced by simply Asylum seekers in addition to whether or not they need to be permitted within formulated international locations (Australia) along with the honest factor of the Australian federal government insurance policy in asylum seekers. The following paragraphs shed light on the ethical discussion for this circumstance.

Media outlets often inflate or speculate about either the numbers of asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants. Hence causing the public to feel threatened by these numbers. Not only does the media scrutinise numbers but newspapers and television images and videos play “dominant stereotype of the young dangerous man breaking into Australia and threatening ‘our’ communities 7”. Unsurprisingly “31 precent of headlines and 53 precent of text about asylum across all newspapers has negative connotations. The media has had a detrimental affect on the outcome of the Australian security border protection by continually asking the question “What is being done to prevent these terrorist acts from the public? 7”

Asylum Seekers: The Comparison of Two Sides · The points of view that the suns newspaper report are trying to express are that the immigrants are entering the country under false pretences “falsely claming benefits” which angers there readers because they were lead to believe that they were entering the country to flee from poverty and war. From the instance that the audience picks up the paper the headlines for the article is “Read this article and get angry” with a picture of 4 illegal immigrants taking a leap of freedom over a barbed wire fence. So by analysing the headline the intention of this article is to anger the reader. · The Guardians report is based more on making you fell sympathetic

The three texts, Stained, Outsider, and Freedom Stories: what I’ve learned from filming Australia’s asylum seekers, are all concerned with the topic of asylum seekers. Stained and Outsider, focuses on the struggle that asylum seekers go through once they have reached a ‘safe place’, while Freedom Stories: what I’ve learned from filming Australia’s asylum seekers focuses on what the author has learned from the asylum seekers struggle. All the texts are in 1st person but they are not all autobiographical.

Denmark's Plan to take assets from asylum seekers is not only degrading to those who are trying to get into the country, and for those people inside of the country. As an immigrant myself, I surely know the struggle of leaving one's country to go to another one. I reject, and oppose Denmark's Plan to take the assets of migrants. For the people who are trying to get into Denmark their struggle is even more real. The Wall Street Journal also reports that thousands of hundreds of migrants will try to reach Denmark But how many of those migrants will reach Denmark? The Danish government have set up a new plan quoting " Danish police would be given the power to take cash and valuables at more than 10,000 kroner (1,450 U.S) although with the exception

Asylum seekers are defined as someone who has fled their own country and seek international protection. They pursue safety and cannot return unless the situation that forced them to leave improves. Each Asylum seeker has different experiences and reasons for moving to another country. Many asylum seekers flee their own country because there is war, tortured for own religious or political beliefs or because their human rights are not being respected. The term ‘boat people’ is a racist remark and has become intertwined into society since the 1970’s with the first arrival of boats carrying people seeking asylum from the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The first onset of asylum seekers arrived in April of 1976 in Darwin which was the first of

I was a volunteer at the Emergency Relief Department at Lentara Uniting Care, I had a variety of roles and I frequently interacted with co-workers and clients that were from very different cultures, religions and social statuses.

Ha and other refugees Struggle, Face, Worry and Challenges. The challenge they both have in common is that they had to face challenges along they way. Their challenges were hard to face because, Ha go bullied and didn’t like the food, doesn’t want to being a different religion and trying to know her land. In “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” they had to face the same challenges, but not all that are the same. The “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” tells who were the people that were refugees, and where the refugees are going also why they decided to flee their home. “Today our cowboy brings a paper bucket of chicken, skin crispy and golden, smelling of perfection.” (Lai 119). Connecting to the new life in Alabama and how hard it is for Ha and her family

One of the most contentious discourses to ever exist in the Australian news media is that which concerns asylum seekers. Discourse is defined as an organisation of socially constructed knowledge about an aspect of reality (Foucault 1977; Hall 1997; van Leeuwen 2005), and racism is a system of oppression targeting members of ethnic groups who share bodily phenotypes such as skin pigmentation (Erikson 2010, Luke and Carrington 2000, Scholte 2000). This essay will firstly argue that Australia’s dominant discourse portrays asylum seekers in a racist manner. Then, it will determine this discourse to be largely constructed by the news media: the mass communication channels (such as newspapers, television, and the Internet) that report recent events

Asylum Seekers People who flee their homes in the face of persecution, or threats to