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    The document discusses Australia's policies toward boat people seeking asylum over several decades. It describes how Vietnam War refugees were initially welcomed in the late 1970s and 1980s, but attitudes hardened over time. By the early 2000s, both major political parties adopted tough stances against unauthorized boat arrivals. The government instituted policies of mandatory detention in offshore camps to deter irregular migration and assert control over borders. However, these policies have been condemned by human rights groups as inhumane and a violation of international law.

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    The document discusses Australia's policies toward boat people seeking asylum over several decades. It describes how Vietnam War refugees were initially welcomed in the late 1970s and 1980s, but attitudes hardened over time. By the early 2000s, both major political parties adopted tough stances against unauthorized boat arrivals. The government instituted policies of mandatory detention in offshore camps to deter irregular migration and assert control over borders. However, these policies have been condemned by human rights groups as inhumane and a violation of international law.

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    The document discusses Australia's policies toward boat people seeking asylum over several decades. It describes how Vietnam War refugees were initially welcomed in the late 1970s and 1980s, but attitudes hardened over time. By the early 2000s, both major political parties adopted tough stances against unauthorized boat arrivals. The government instituted policies of mandatory detention in offshore camps to deter irregular migration and assert control over borders. However, these policies have been condemned by human rights groups as inhumane and a violation of international law.

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    BOAT

    PEOPLE:
    1975 - 2015

    THE ISSUE OF BOAT PEOPLE


    -

    Migration is not new to Australia. One third of Australians


    were born overseas and over half have at least one parent
    born overseas.

    However, in Australia is has become a hot political issue


    in the 21st century and political parties being seen as
    being Anti-Immigration can be good for polling figures.

    In 2013 Australias conservative coalition government,


    boasted the election promise: Stop the boats.

    In early 2014 Scott Morrison, the immigration minister,


    said no boats had reached Australia for more than eight
    weeks.

    The most common argument to justify the policies against


    accepting boat people is it saves lives by deterring
    people from undertaking the dangerous journey.

    BOAT PEOPLE IN THE


    20TH CENTURY
    -

    The term Boat People first came about during the Vietnamese
    War, after the communists gained control and refugees started
    leaving the country in the millions.

    Vietnamese made traitorous journeys towards Malaysia,


    Indonesia and Australia on boats to escape persecution.

    At the time they were welcomed by a collection of Western


    governments that had promised to help clean up the mess left by
    the Vietnamese War.

    This was also extended to the peoples fleeing the Cambodian


    genocide.

    With Australia the closest Westernised country many made their


    way towards Australia.

    In the late 1970s and 1980s Australia took in 25000 asylum


    seekers a year without any discernable social problems.

    CHANGING POLICIES
    -

    The media and both main political parties now benefit from
    a hard stance to detaining refugees who try to reach
    Australia by boat.

    The government under Abbott continually boasted that no


    (or few) asylum-seeker carrying boats reach Australian
    shores and Abbott made it a key policy for his successive
    election campaigns.

    In 1992 the Keating government introduced mandatory


    detention for refugees and immigrants arriving by boat.

    Sent to detention camps on Manus and Nauru were they


    are processed purposely slowly, with poor living
    conditions.

    Meant to act as a deterrent.

    ATTITUDES TOWARDS
    BOAT PEOPLE
    -

    The image painted by the media and politicians of


    refugees who arrive by boat differs widely to the mostly
    ignored issue of those who arrive by air.

    Respected columnists and politicians in Australia being


    lured into easy scapegoating of this group of people.

    Last year the Sunday Morning Herald published an article


    accusing the government of not taking productivity
    seriously, as a result of their lax attitude to refugees.

    Asylum-seekers are painted, at best, as economic


    migrants and at worst, criminals and delinquents.

    Smugglers are demonised by not as exploiters but just to


    further justify the inhumane action taken against refugees.

    ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF
    TOLERANCE
    -

    Widely agreed that with appropriate integration efforts


    that migrants have proved to add to prosperity of
    countries they arrive in.
    Research conducted in the UK [reported in The
    Economist] suggests that those who have had contact
    with immigrant populations are the least anti-immigration.
    Vietnamese Boat People in Australia are now earning, on
    average, well over the nation average wage after one
    generation.
    It is expensive to detain immigrants in these detention
    camps much more so than to process them
    humanitarianly.

    INTERNATIONAL
    INTERVENTION
    -

    In 2014 the UN refugee agency condemned the


    immigration policies in place in Australia and specifically
    the actions of Scott Morrison, immigration minister.

    In 2012 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that


    boat people must be given a fair chance to apply for
    asylum and may not automatically be sent back even if
    rescued in international waters.

    Australian governments have been continually


    embarrassed by the policies yet they prevail.

    Amnesty International said in a report that it had evidence


    showing that Australian officials paid people smugglers to
    turn back boats and threatened asylum seekers.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    http://www.ohchr.org/HRC/Pages/redirect.aspx
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-28189608
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTviKM9Mx0
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/07/australias-asylum-seekers
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/06/australias-asylum-seeker-problem
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/02/australias-asylum-policy
    http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21636365-new-law-gives-immigration-minister-unprecedented-power
    -full-steam-ahead
    http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21608798-court-challenges-hardline-policy-towards-boat-people-sea
    http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21651249-plan-deal-boat-people-ambitious-outcome-will-bewoefully
    http
    ://www.economist.com/news/asia/21644010-prime-minister-dismisses-damning-report-australias-detention
    -children-seeking-asylumsuffer
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/were-not-taking-productivity-seriously-20150315-144efr.html
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-21/carvalho-why-migrants-may-be-our-greatest-economic-asset/6409
    042
    http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/humanitarian-economic-changing-face-vietnamese-migration
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-23/coleman-vietnamese-refugees-are-still-coming/6412418
    http://thebigsmoke.com.au/2014/04/07/reality-boat-people-solution-asylum-seeker-problem/
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2014/05/malcolm-fraser-australian-foreign-policy
    http://gqtrippin.com/asia/vietnam/parents-immigrant-story/

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