Literature Review On Asylum Seekers

This chapter discusses the issue of insufficient health services available to asylum seekers and the ethical challenges faced by medical practitioners. The main focus of this chapter is to illustrate how medical resources supplied by the Australian government are inadequate in meeting the medical needs of asylum seekers in offshore detention centres and medical practitioners’ inability to authorise additional supplies. The authors argue that due to the reduced budget for medical supplies, health care practitioners are unable to provide appropriate medical assistance to asylum seekers. Subsequently, this causes symptoms to go untreated and diseases to further deteriorate. This chapter was important in establishing the level of health care available

This report focuses on Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, and whether mandatory detention leads to international law breaches. The AHRC argues that, although detention may be appropriate in some instances, the length of time and living conditions endured by asylum seekers currently in detention is cruel, inhuman and degrading. AHRC support this argument explaining offshore detentions are mandatory, provide no time limit for detainment and are refused the access to the legal system. This article is important to my role as a United Nations representative in my scenario (ten) as it illustrates the treatment endured by asylum seekers in detention centres and links this to international human rights violations. Additionally, this report provides recommendations on how to help manage this situation, which would be useful for my role to consider when investigating what previous changes have done to improve the

This book focuses on the modern day use of detention centres, with a key focus on the policies governing it. Wilsher argues that detention centres need a defined set of standards in regards to time limits and the evaluation of immigrants, to avoid the risk of human right breaches. The author notes the current detention system has failed to do so because policies are largely driven by political priorities and aimed at epitomising the government’s initiative to solving the immigration dilemma. This book is highly important in my role as a United Nations Representative in my scenario (ten) as it provides me with a clear overview of the development of immigration detention centres in Australian history. This book also provided me with an understanding of the political issues surrounding detention centres, which would be useful to consider in my