UNCC300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Collaborative Partnerships, Australian Immigration Detention Facilities, Katherine Paterson
28 May 2018
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Katherine Paterson
UNCC300 Justice & Change
Week 8
-Refugees > can not prove their identity without papers, people doing labouring jobs who
are qualified for higher paid jobs but australia doesn’t recognise their qualifications
-Middle East + North Africa takes 39% of displaced people / Oceana + Asia takes %14. /
America %12 / Europe 6%
-Since 1992 all non-citizens without legal visa are detained
-Medical records and medication for 3 year old with seizures taken away & regular
common reports of children self-harm
-How do you think australia should respond to children in immigration detention? >
Should have families as top priority to transfer them through assessment in order to
keep children with family support system and get them settled with the tools and
resources to assimilate into Australian culture within 3-6 months. High safety
precautions and care for children while in the transitionary period. Give them some
education and English classes in particular.
-Write essay now!
- As of Nov 2015:
174 children in closed immigration detention facilities:
104 are held in closed immigration detention facilities in Australia and 70
children are detained in the Regional Processing Centre in Nauru
331 children in community detention in Australia.
- Australia ratied the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1990.
One of the basic principles of the CRC is that the best interests of the child
should be a primary consideration in all decisions that aect them.
- The CRC sets out specic requirements to protect the liberty of children,
including the requirements that:
children must only be detained as a measure of last resort
children must only be detained for the shortest appropriate period of time
children should not be detained unlawfully or arbitrarily
children in detention have the right to challenge the legality of their detention
before a court or another independent body.
Document Summary
Refugees > can not prove their identity without papers, people doing labouring jobs who are quali ed for higher paid jobs but australia doesn"t recognise their quali cations. Middle east + north africa takes 39% of displaced people / oceana + asia takes %14. Since 1992 all non-citizens without legal visa are detained. Medical records and medication for 3 year old with seizures taken away & regular common reports of children self-harm. Should have families as top priority to transfer them through assessment in order to keep children with family support system and get them settled with the tools and resources to assimilate into australian culture within 3-6 months. High safety precautions and care for children while in the transitionary period. Give them some education and english classes in particular. 104 are held in closed immigration detention facilities in australia and 70 children are detained in the regional processing centre in nauru.
