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Human rights overboard : seeking asylum in Australia / Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, Chris Goddard.
- Title
- Human rights overboard : seeking asylum in Australia / Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, Chris Goddard.
- Author
- Briskman, Linda
- Publication
- Carlton North, Vic. : Scribe, 2008.
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- Description
- 448 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a broad-ranging investigation into immigration detention in Australia, and the operations within detention centres had been largely shrouded in official secrecy. The People's Inquiry into Detention (as it came to be called) heard heartbreaking evidence about asylum-seekers journeys to Australia, their detention process, life in detention, and life after detention. In total, around 200 people testified to the inquiry, and a similar number of written submissions were received. Human Rights Overboard draws together, for the first time, the oral testimony and written submissions from the inquiry in a powerful and vital book that stands as an indelible record of one of Australias bleakest legacies. Clearly and comprehensively presented, the book is a haunting journey guided by voices from every side of the fence: former immigration detainees, refugee advocates, lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, and former detention and immigration staff. Together, their stories bear testimony to a humanitarian disaster that Australia caused, and that must be remembered so that it never happens again. With a foreword by prominent humanitarian lawyer Julian Burnside, Human Rights Overboard is an essential book that will resonate with the Australian public and, indeed, the world, for years to come."--Provided by publisher
- Subject
- Refugees > Australia
- Detention of persons > Australia
- Refugee children > Government policy > Australia
- Asylum, Right of > Government policy > Australia
- Noncitizens > Government policy > Australia
- Illegal immigration > Government policy > Australia
- Réfugiés > Australie
- Enfants réfugiés > Politique gouvernementale > Australie
- Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > Australie
- Illegal immigration
- Detention of persons
- Noncitizens > Government policy
- Refugee children > Government policy
- Refugees
- Asylrecht
- Asylpolitik
- Asylbewerber
- Unterbringung
- Australia
- Australien
- Civil & human rights (Australia)
- Refugees
- Policy making
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-448).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Journey into detention -- pt. 2. Processing of refugee claims -- Flaws in the refugee determination process -- Psychological effects of the process -- 'Pacific solution' -- pt. 3. Detention -- Physical conditions -- Mental health conditions -- Violence and self-harm -- Assaults -- Children -- Deportations -- Deaths in detention -- Accountability -- Government inaction -- Refugee advocacy -- Other pathways into detention -- Costs of detention -- pt. 4. Life after detention -- Mental health -- Children -- Debts -- Refugee advocacy -- pt. 5. Post-Cornelia changes -- pt. 6. Fresh start -- Removing racism -- Restoring human rights -- Reinstating accountability -- Righting the wrongs.
- ISBN
- 9781921372407
- 1921372400
- LCCN
- 2009286227
- OCLC
- 271845595
- SCSB-12606217
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library