Analyzing Moral Panic: Australian Perspectives on Asylum Seekers

This assignment delves into the concept of moral panic in Australia, specifically focusing on the anxieties surrounding the increasing number of asylum seekers. It presents an interview with a graduate in food operations and management who shares her perspectives on the issue, highlighting concerns related to Asian invasion, multiculturalism, and the perceived rise in crime rates. The interviewee suggests that government intervention is necessary through stricter policies to control the flow of refugees. The assignment connects these concerns to criminological concepts such as criminalization, where asylum seekers are stigmatized and associated with negative social impacts due to their lack of legal employment opportunities and the strain on resources. The analysis also references research indicating a correlation between asylum seeker populations and increased criminal activities and social problems, fueling public worries and the desire for stricter immigration controls. Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments for students.

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Part 1
The interviewee for this exercise was a female graduate in the field of food operations and
management aged 24. She has had number of things to share in relation to the moral panic
situation currently in Australia.
Summary to Response of the first Question
Stop the boats! Moral panic in Australia over asylum seekers was the topic that she brought up
and it captured my attention, most of the Australians are increasingly getting worried over the
increase in numbers of the people coming in the country seeking asylum. The society at large has
attached different theoretical assumptions as to why the increase in the number of these asylum
seekers should be controlled. Some of these concerns have been on fears on Asian invasion,
multiculturalism among other fears.
Summary to Response of the second Question
She felt that the government has to intervene in the problem by developing more strict policies
that control the flow of refugees in the country among other legislations to control the social
issue facing the country.

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Part 2
In relation to the first response, the interviewee’s take on the moral panic case borrows ideas
form concepts studied in class such as criminalization, this can be seen where the public
stigmatizes the asylum seekers with negative social impact in the country especially in relation to
the rise in the crime rates in the country among other social evils such as drug abuse and
prostitution among other evils that promote the rise of crimes in the country. Different shows that
there re a number of possible reasons behind the hypothesis. The asylum seekers in most cases
lack the legal documents that re required for legal employment in the country which pushes them
to get entangled in criminal acts so as to get means of survival. As more asylum seekers get in
the country, the more in numbers the country welcomes but does not set up strategies to provide
them with the basic needs that they ay need so a to avoid such cases of criminalization (Patel, T
2012). From the different research carried out, it shows that most of the asylum seekers have
been associated with the rise of criminal activities within the areas they occupy (White, R,
Haines, F and Asquith, N, 2017). There has also been the rise of social evils within the areas and
most of the Australian have ended up associating these patterns with the rise of asylum seekers
(Morgan, G and Poynting, S 2012). With this being the case the Australian public starts getting
worried on what probably may happen if the intake of more asylum seekers is not controlled.

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References
Morgan, G and Poynting, S 2012, ‘Introduction: The transnational folk devil’, in G Morgan and
S Poynting (eds.), Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West, Routledge,
London, pp. 1-14.
Patel, T 2012, ‘Surveillance, suspicion and stigma: brown bodies in a terror-panic climate’,
Surveillance and Society, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 215-234.
White, R, Haines, F and Asquith, N, 2017. ‘Labelling perspectives’, in Crime and Criminology,
6th Edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 95-112