The Asylum

recent times as the issue of asylum seekers. An asylum-seeker ‘is an individual who has sought international protection and whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined’. In contrast, a refugee is an individual whose protection has been deemed necessary by the UNHCR or a State who is a signatory to the Refugee Convention. 
The issues surrounding asylum seeker has divide opinions and evoke strong emotional responses across the community. We are aware that asylum seekers are often vulnerable

Mental asylums. The first thing that usually comes to mind is dark, prison-like buildings with dangerous people locked up in rooms by themselves. Characters such as the Joker from the Batman comics come to mind, he had severe and dangerous mental problems that make him extremely dangerous to both himself and others. This mentally ill man is kept locked away, so that he cannot hurt other people, which makes sense that he is in prison. Although not every mentally ill person is as sick as the Joker

The debate about asylum seekers in Australia is contentious and politically charged, but research commissioned by Amnesty International has found that anti-asylum seekers sentiments are not actually fuelled by racism. Australia pride itself on its strong human rights record and its standing as a good global citizen. However deeper analysis and according to recent situation that how boat people are being treated shows that Australia has failed to fulfill with its international human rights obligations

closest name under which the terms illegal and legal immigrants can be put under is “unlawful citizens”. This term is only classified under Australian Law but due to the reasons that they are seeking asylum, it is their international given right to seek this protection under the listing of an asylum seeker, therefore they cannot be penalized for pursing protection under the legal law of the Australian government. The reason these refugees do not obtain a visa and enter the country under a passport

Primary, it was made compulsory viewing. By means of assisting with teachers’ understanding of the circumstances of an asylum seeker. In essence, this film was beneficial; especially as a great proportion of the students at her primary school are refugees. Respectively, the film was produced by refugees advocate Jessie Taylor. Taylor travelled to Indonesia, where she met with asylum seekers. A collection of the stories she heard were shaped into a documentary named, ‘Between the Devil and the Deep

with the County Asylums Act also regulated asylum construction and compelled counties to provide asylum for lunatics, provided a salary for “the medical and legal Commissioners…created a more detailed medical certification procedure, and establishments had to keep…detailed records of admission, discharge or death, escape or transfer, restraint, seclusion, and injury of those placed in the asylum” (German E. Berrios, Hugh Freeman 92, 93). The significance of the Lunatics/County Asylums Act of 1845 in

ASYLUM can be categorised under the genre of Science fiction commonly known as Sci-fi which encompasses hypothetical, science based issues and complexes that often take place in a futuristic adaption of the current world. Theodore Sturgeon, the well known author of the science fiction phenomenon 'more than human' (1953) which is deemed his most notable piece, depicts the genre of science fiction as 'A story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have

the Sublime in John Harwoods “The Asylum” Fear and trauma are two significant emotions shown throughout gothic novels. In “The Asylum” by John Harwood, Georgina finds herself in Tregannon Asylum where she discovers the dark secrets of her family and the Asylum. Harwood uses terror to evoke the sublime by foreshadowing the coming of danger in the reader. Furthermore, Harwood uses terror to evoke the sublime by portraying fear of the powerful. In the novel “The Asylum” by John Harwood, the author captures

incapable or different were sent to lunatic asylums to protect the rest of society. They were scrutinized by their peers and stigmatized as a “lunatic”. The fact they were separated and incarcerated from the public established a negative outlook on mental illness. However, within the asylums, these individuals were the subjects of new health reforms and public health policies towards mental health. As the British started to invest in the development of mental asylums, they made renovations to the sanitation

mental delusion. Insane asylums not only held patients captive in confined rooms for months on end, but would only be taken out to perform lobotomies, electroshock therapy, and other extremely painful methods to cure their disability. Psychiatric wards were an embarrassing and horrible part of history. The previous solution for curing mental illness was inhuman, because of the way patients were used as test subjects to experiment with mental health. Since the end of asylums, our understanding of the