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Australia’s Immigration Policy Part 2: Mandatory detention for refugees who arrive by boat
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 13:57
- Length: 4:33 minutes (4.17 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Yesterday, in the first part of our series on immigration policy in Australia, we examined the controversial deal signed last week by Australia and Malaysia that allows the two countries to exchange asylum seekers. Today, we’re going to look at Australia’s policy of mandatory detention for refugees who arrive by boat. We turn again to Ian Rintoul spokesperson for Sydney’s Refugee Action Coalition. I started by asking him how this policy of mandatory detention, that goes against international law, came about?
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I've listened to some of the reports on immigrant detention in Australia (Danny Wood, I believe, is Australian?) and, of course found it interesting (FSRN does good work).
I think it would be interesting also to put together a report containing a group, comparative view of all countries, or at least a sizable number of countries, that have this practice of jailing migrants. I am fairly sure the U.S. would be in that group given its especially notorious detention of immigrants in the U.S. Southwest.
I expect human rights organizations have done some work on this but FSRN could take a different angle and do an update.
I also think there's an important story to be told about the connection between war and migration; the backlash against immigrants in countries that are themselves the causers of “forced” mass migration: countries (France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany) waging wars and exacerbating conflict, creating destabilization and failed states as the causers of mass suffering and hemorrhaging migration.
What do you think?