Asylum, detention, and mental health in Australia

Title: Asylum, detention, and mental health in Australia
Creator: Newman, Louise K.; Dudley, Michael; Steel, Zachary
Relation: Refugee Survey Quarterly Vol. 27, Issue 3, p. 110-127
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdn034
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: Seeking asylum in the face of persecution is a fundamental human right. The system of arbitrary mandatory detention operating under Australian immigration law since 1992 has impacted on more than 15,000 adults and children, many with traumatic experiences in their country of origin. Restrictions on entry to the mainland, policies of "deterrence", including prolonged detention in remote camps, and inadequate responses to trauma and mental health needs have contributed to mental deterioration and suffering of asylum-seekers. The responses of mental health professionals, lawyers, human rights advocates, and community groups to the detention system have focused on the need to protect the right to seek asylum and the need for a humane response to asylum-seekers.
Subject: immigration law; Australia; asylum-seekers; mental health; detention
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43325
Identifier: uon:5445
Identifier: ISSN:1020-4067
Language: eng
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