‘everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries, asylum from persecution.’...
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‘Everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries, asylum from persecution.’
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) Article 14
WHO ARE THEY?
‘Refugee’: a person with a “well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion...”
Convention, article 1a (2)
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1976 –1982: ~2000 Vietnamese ‘boat people’ + 15,000 Vietnamese refugees settled directly from refugee camps
1989 –1993: ~3,000 asylum seekers, mostly from China, Vietnam and Cambodia
1999 –2001: ~12,000 from Afghanistan and Iraq (Tampa August 2001 then Sept 11 …)
2008 –present: 18,000 + from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka
IN WAVES:
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ALLOCATION OF PLACES:
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WHO ARE WE?
Recent study (585 responses to survey of 3,000; skewed toward older adults, av. 58 yo; 72% born in Australia:
Attitudes on how asylum seekers should be treated on arrival:1) With caution, but respect (n = 207); 2) With humanitarian values (n = 161); or 3) That they should be ‘sent back’ (n = 158).
… e.g. of 3):‘Turn the boat around and tell them to go back to where they come from—should they fail to respond—fire shots across the bow—should they fail to respond fire shoot at the ship.’
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‘Let them come’
human rights
compassion
‘asylum seekers’ ‘refugees’
Greens
Fairfax/ABC
‘Turn them back’
border protection
security
‘illegal immigrants,’ ‘queue jumpers’ Act: ‘unauthorized maritime arrivals’
Liberal/NP
NewsCorp
‘LEFT’ VS. ‘RIGHT’:
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http://expertpanelonasylumseekers.dpmc.gov.au
AngusHouston
ParisAristotle
Michael L’Estrange
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EXPERT PANEL:
IMAs irregularmaritime arrivals
‘The common and principal focus of activity … must be to shift the balance of risk, predictability and incentive in favour of the use of regular pathways of international protection and migration, and against the need to resort to irregular and dangerous boat voyages to Australia for those purposes.’ (3.1 p. 37)
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Address root causesHelp countries of first asylum
Regional cooperationand capacity building
Disrupt smugglers
Excisemainland
Quicker RSD, but using regional processing
&
Raise to 20,000Allow some skilledIMAs: no SHP families
Distributeresettlement
Removals and returns
More research
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CHRISTIAN RESPONSE (PART 1):1. Conflict of goods → peacemaking
2. Truth telling admits complexity
3. Truth telling acknowledges falleness
4. Christian alert for government failure: ‘an avenger .. on the wrongdoer’ (Rom. 13:4)
… can’t also be the wrongdoer.‘punish those who do evil’ (1 Pet. 2:14)
.. can’t also do evil. … ‘best friends’ of government
5. Truth telling acknowledges government expertise
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• 4000+ people• Australia
50/yr• Expert Panel:
‘substantial increase in additional places from Indonesia’
• $$$$
UNHCR JAKARTA
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EXCISION AND REGIONAL PROCESSING
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NAURU
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human rights standards (including no arbitrary detention);
appropriate accommodation;
appropriate physical and mental health services;
access to educational and vocational training programs;
application assistance during asylum claims;
an appeal mechanism
monitoring of care and protection arrangements
NAURU: PANEL EXPECTS/REQUIRES --
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2. freedom of movement : ‘anticipated, but not legally required, that they will ordinarily return to their accommodation by sunset’.
8. more permanent accommodation within 6 months
4. education of children
15. training courses
18. church participation
19. minibuses around country.
NAURU: MINISTER BOWEN REPORTS --
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God’sCharacter
‘The people of the land … oppress
the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice. ... So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger …’ [Ezek. 22:29,31].
TOWARD A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE (PART 2):
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God’sCharacter
Creation
Peter: ‘I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.’ (Act 10:34–35)
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New future
God’sCharacter
Creation
John: ‘After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb …’ (Rev. 7:9)
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New future
Community‘in Christ’
God’sCharacter
Creation
Jew vs. Gentile: ‘he is our peace… [he] has broken down the dividing
wall, that is, the hostility between us.’ (Eph. 2:14)
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New future
Community‘in Christ’
God’sCharacter
Israel: ‘when an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treatedas one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt” (Leviticus 19:33-34).
Fall / ‘Flesh’ :disordered
desires false belonging
Creation
Commands
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Fall / ‘Flesh’ :disordered
desires false belonging
Christ’s Spirit:reordered desires,
true inclusion (‘love’)
New future
Community‘in Christ’
God’sCharacter
Creation
Commands
‘Xenophilia is commanded of us: the neighbour whom we are to love is the foreigner whom we en-counter on the road.’ [Oliver O’Donovan]
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A CONSERVATIVE RESPONSE FOR CHRISTIANSAsk the government to do what it says
- regional money- good conditions on Nauru- increased places- faster RSD- more places from Indonesia- good SAR
… etc
Requires more openness to press
Letters to MP www.sie.org.au
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A MORE RADICAL RESPONSE
Question ‘deterrence’: unlikely that it works, and a bit wrong.
Train yourself in love: smile at ‘foreigners’
Question your neighbour’s fears about scarcity
Push for generosity … e.g.:
Ask for 3000+ places p.a. direct from Indonesia, separate from other humanitarian
Ask for increase in foreign aid (to 0.7 % GDP) to be spent on DIPLOMACY then REGIONAL TEAMWORK then MORE UNHCR
‘Community sponsorship’: consider it & stay tuned …