Australia’s Offshore Immigration Policy

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THE AUSTRALIAN OFFSHORE IMMIGRATION POLICIES: A LOOK AT THE PLIGHT
OF PEOPLE WITH OFFSHORE ASYLUM SEEKERS IN AUSTRALIA AS A CASE STUDY
FOR FAILURE OF AUSTRALIAN LAW AND POLICY TO PROTECT SPECIAL GROUPS
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Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Discussion 3
Conclusion 6
Bibliography 7

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Introduction
Australia has in recent times come under unusual criticism over its immigration policy. A recent
report on a visit by Amnesty International’s Anna Neistat in Nauru, one of the islands which
hold camps for offshore immigrants into Australia, however, proved otherwise. Neistat describes
the conditions she witnessed in the camps as befitting the term “torture”. In fact, she reports that
what she witnessed left her ‘furious and desperate.’ In this island, and in Papua New Guinea and
other offshore camps used by Australia, men, women, and children suffer inhumane conditions
as they wait for their applications for asylum in Australia to be processed. The immigration
process takes long, sometimes months. Having been considered for a long time as one of the
favorite destinations for foreigners in the world, Australia is surprisingly falling out of favor as a
result of the policies its government is using to regulate immigration into the country (Human
Rights Watch, 2019).
This study seeks to demonstrate that Australia's migration policy for offshore arrivals has failed,
due to its violation of human rights. In using the immigration policies case the paper intends to
demonstrate that multiple Australian law are biased and discriminative, and that the government
‘sleeps’ while most of these laws and policy actually need changing.
Discussion
● To begin with, and which is the most unfortunate, is the murder of asylum seekers in the
offshore refugee detention camps. An example has been given in the media of an Iranian
citizen by the name of Reza Barati who sought asylum on Manus Island and who was
killed through lethal violence. This story received wide attention. A number of other
reports of the murder of refugees have surfaced through Australian and foreign media. In