Melbourne Refugee Studies Program
To hear the radio interview, click on http://www.rrr.org.au/whats-going-on/news/asylum-seeker-amnesty/
To read the transcript, please scroll down. Continue reading “Harry Minas discussing the Amnesty International Report on Nauru on 3RRR, Melbourne Independent Radio 20/10/16” →
On Tuesday October 11 I attended the ‘Diaspora Symposium Refugee and Asylum Seeker Discourse’ held in the NSW parliament house. Behrouz Boochani was honoured with a Social Justice Award for his courageous work as a journalist, writer and advocate on Manus Island. Behrouz Boochani has been incarcerated there since mid 2013. In that time, he has continued to post stories, written opinion pieces, posted photos taken inside the camp, and continued work on a book documenting his imprisonment on Manus Island. His pieces have been published in Australia and overseas, and have appeared in the Saturday Paper, the Guardian, The Age, and Huffington Post and other outlets. Continue reading “Behrouz Boochani Social Justice Award. The nightmare continues—disturbing new developments in Offshore imprisonment.” →
Horrifying though it has been, something darker still is being acted out on Manus Island. The ABC’s Pacific Beat reports that despite the fact that in April, PNG’s Supreme Court, ruled the Regional Processing Centre was unconstitutional and ordered its closure, the PNG Government now says it will close Australia’s offshore detention centre on Manus Island but keep the asylum seeker facility in Lorangau open. This is, indeed confirmed by this alarming message from Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani. Continue reading “Manus Island Crisis” →
We contacted the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre over a week in advance to set up a visit but, despite follow up calls, we didn’t know whether we would be allowed in through the steel grills and the forbidding wall of barbed wire. We were assigned a time slot for Friday evening.
As I make my way by train to the last stop on the line, I feel I am moving far away from what has been billed as ‘the most liveable city in the world’. Continue reading “A journey from and back to the free world” →
Over the past decade, a disturbing distinction has taken root, in our public discourse, between two categories of refugees and asylum seekers. There are worthy and there are the unworthy. The worthy include those who wait patiently and politely in refugee camps for their turn in legendary queues, and the unworthy are those who have the temerity to actively seek refuge, embarking on perilous journeys in search of new lives. Continue reading “Two types of refugees and asylum seekers: The worthy and the unworthy” →
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