Human rights overboard : seeking asylum in Australia /

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Author / Creator:	Briskman, Linda.
Imprint:	Carlton North, Vic. : Scribe, 2008.
Description:	448 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia. Detention of persons -- Australia. Refugee children -- Government policy -- Australia. Asylum, Right of -- Government policy -- Australia. Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- Australia. Detention of persons. Illegal aliens -- Government policy. Refugee children -- Government policy. Refugees. Australia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7299719

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Other authors / contributors:	Goddard, Chris (Christopher) Latham, Susie.
ISBN:	9781921372407 (pbk.) 1921372400 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Table of 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.

Human rights overboard : seeking asylum in Australia /

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