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- Title: Transit to Connection: Aspirations and Identities of Asylum Seeking Young People (Report)
- Author : Women in Welfare Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 213 KB
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Introduction Australia has a longstanding history with fences. The rabbit and dingo fences for example, which lined our colonial state borders have served Australia well. Our latest fence building activity has been around asylum seekers, isolating them behind fences both physically and metaphorically. The processing of asylum seekers on Christmas Island effectively creates a 'moat' around this activity. The implications of this exclusion process for the mental health of asylum seekers have now emerged with research suggesting substantial mental health difficulties amongst asylum seekers and refugees (i) ( Steel , Silove, Brooks, Momartin, Alzuhairi & Susljik, 2006; Cardozo, Vergara, Agani & Gotway, 2000; Ellis, MacDonald, Lincoln &Cabral, 2008). Peak professional bodies pointed out to the Australian Government of the previous Prime Minister John Howard (under whose government many of the young people participating in this study were detained) the findings of such research and the trauma asylum seekers suffered through this method of processing. However, their correspondence remained unacknowledged (Higgins, 2003, p. 280). Whilst there have been research studies that have demonstrated that the detention process impacts on young asylum seekers' mental health (Mares, Newman, Dudley & Gale, 2002; Newman & Steel, 2008; Silove, Steel & Mollica, 2001; Silove, Steel & Watters, 2000; Silove , Austin, & Steel, 2007) questions remain around aspects of the transition from seeking asylum to building a life in Australia.
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