Posts tagged with Manus Island

  1. Behrouz Boochani Social Justice Award. The nightmare continues—disturbing new developments in Offshore imprisonment.

    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 …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/18/behrouz-boochani-social-justice-award-the-nightmare-continues-disturbing-new-developments-in-offshore-imprisonment

  2. Manus Island Crisis

    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 …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/10/10/manus-island-crisis

  3. Two types of refugees and asylum seekers: The worthy and the unworthy

    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 …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/09/07/two-types-of-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-the-worthy-and-the-unworthy

  4. Trapped in a prison with little hope of release

    It is a prison. Literally enclosed in a cage – surrounded by steel-grille security fences. The logo on the door is of the Australian Border Force. It …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/mrsp/2016/08/02/trapped-in-a-prison-with-little-hope-of-release