United Nations refugee agency warns Australia its asylum policy may breach international law

Explainer: the legality of turning or towing back asylum boats

►http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-legality-of-turning-or-towing-back-asylum-boats-16201

Explainer: Australia’s obligations under the UN Refugee Convention

▻http://theconversation.com/explainer-australias-obligations-under-the-un-refugee-convention-16

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►http://sydney.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/07/20/le-premier-bateau

▻http://seenthis.net/messages/158257 :)

Is Australia’s new asylum policy the harshest in its history?

Following Kevin Rudd’s announcement, asylum seekers who arrive in Australian waters by boat will no longer have the chance to be settled in Australia. Three experts react

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▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/19/australia-asylum-policy-harshest-policy

Explainer: the legality of turning or towing back asylum boats

The Coalition promises it will “turn back” asylum seeker boats in Australian waters where it is safe to do so if it wins the next election. With Australian border patrols said to be at “breaking point” with the numbers of boat arrivals, the asylum debate has reached a heightened pitch in intensity…

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►http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-legality-of-turning-or-towing-back-asylum-boats-16201

A Unique Look at the Boat People ‘Problem’ in Australia

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▻http://theantibogan.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/a-unique-look-at-the-boat-people-problem-in-australia

#infographie

The Australia-Papua New Guinea Refugee Resettlement Agreement

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has just announced a unique agreement with the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in which boat people interdicted on the high seas headed for Australia to seek asylum will instead be shunted to processing camps in PNG. If determined to be legitimate refugees, they will be resettled there, instead of Australia. Already the hue-and-cry against Rudd’s policy has begun by immigrant advocacy groups in Australia.

▻http://www.cis.org/reasoner/australia-papua-new-guinea-refugee-resettlement-agreement

#accord_Australie_Papou_nouvelle_Guinée

Migranti, l’accordo tra Canberra e Port Moresby. L’indignazione della Chiesa : ’L’isola di Manus come Lampedusa’

–-> l’Eglise dénonce l’accord entre Australie et Papou Nouvelle Guinée

L’isola di Manus sarà luogo di accoglienza temporanea per tutti i richiedenti asilo in Australia, che poi li smisterà tra le isole. La Chiesa condanna l’accordo raggiunto tra Australia e Papua Nuova Guinea. P. McDonough, della Congregazione dei Passionisti, lancia un appello alle Conferenze episcopali dei rispettivi Paesi: “Richiamate i governi a quel senso di giustizia sul quale sono fondate le nostre società e le nostre nazioni”.

▻http://www.asianews.it/notizie-it/Migranti,-l%E2%80%99accordo-tra-Canberra-e-Port-Moresby.-L%E2%80%99indignaz

#Manus_island #île_de_Manus

Un blog: Hazara Asylum Seekers

#Hazara Asylum Seekers is a news blog which aims to provide updates regarding Hazara asylum seekers around the globe in general and about those en-route to Australia in particular.

▻http://hazaraasylumseekers.wordpress.com

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L’Australie ferme ses frontières aux migrants clandestins

L’Australie a annoncé, vendredi 19 juillet, qu’elle fermait ses frontières aux migrants clandestins, qui, s’ils parviennent à mettre le pied sur l’île, seront expulsés vers la #Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.

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▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2013/07/19/l-australie-ferme-ses-frontieres-aux-migrants-clandestins_3450315_3216.html

J’ai essayé de faire une synthèse sur les site www.asile.ch :

►http://www.asile.ch/vivre-ensemble/2013/07/25/le-monde-laustralie-ferme-ses-frontieres-aux-migrants-clandestins

Australia’s ’stop the boats’ policy is cynical and lawless

From Aborigines to refugees, bashing the vulnerable wins votes in what is still a crudely racist country

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▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/29/australia-gulag-votes-aboriginal-concentration-camps

How to break the people smugglers’ real business model

Both the government and the opposition are focusing on the wrong problem, writes Anne McNevin

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▻http://inside.org.au/how-to-break-the-people-smugglers-real-business-model

U.N. ‘Troubled’ by Australia’s New Policy on Asylum Seekers

SYDNEY, Australia — The United Nations said Friday that it was “troubled” by Australia’s new policy to stem the tide of people undertaking dangerous boat journeys to seek asylum there, the latest in a series of public criticisms of the government’s tough new deterrence-based approach.

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/world/asia/un-troubled-by-australias-new-policy-on-asylum-seekers.html?_r=1&

United Nations refugee agency warns Australia its asylum policy may breach international law

The United Nations refugee agency has warned Australia that its decision to send asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea could breach international law and its human rights obligations.

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▻http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-26/unhcr-australia-png-refugees-asylum/4845628

#UN #nations_unies

First transfer to Manus Island under the Regional Settlement Arrangement

The first group of 40 people have arrived in Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, on August 1, formally bringing into effect the Regional Settlement Arrangement agreed on July 19. 
Refugee claims from the single adult men, who were transferred from Christmas Island, will be assessed under PNG law and, if found to be refugees, the men will be settled in PNG.
This demonstrates that if you come to Australia by boat without a visa, you will not be settled here.
Transfers to the Manus Island Regional Processing Centre will continue regularly.

▻http://www.newsroom.immi.gov.au/videos/first-transfer-to-manus-island-under-the-regional-settlement-arran

#transfert

L’Australie renvoie son premier boat people par avion

Le gouvernement travailliste de Canberra a annoncé le 19 juillet que les boat people ne seraient plus tolérés en Australie mais renvoyés chez eux, ou en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, où ils resteront même si leur dossier est accepté.

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▻http://www.rue89.com/2013/08/01/laustralie-renvoie-les-boatpeople-avion-244672

En Australie, les premiers demandeurs d’asile renvoyés

L’Australie a renvoyé, jeudi 1er août, ses premiers demandeurs d’asile en vertu de la nouvelle loi sur l’immigration qui prévoit la fermeture des frontières aux migrants clandestins. Quarante demandeurs, en majorité des hommes afghans et iraniens, ont été envoyés par avion de l’île de Christmas Island, sous escorte policière et avec une assistance médicale, vers la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.

▻http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2013/08/01/australie-renvoi-des-premiers-refugies-apres-le-tour-de-vis-migratoire_34560

Asylum is a Crime - #Pataphysics

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7c4RkLv5zA

Site de l’artiste : ▻http://www.pataphysics.com/#!biopress/cjki

#musique #chanson #asile #crime

Les #boat_people, sur l’autel des élections

L’annonce, le 19 juillet, d’un durcissement sans précédent de la politique d’asile australienne continue de susciter un flot de critiques. Désormais, quiconque arrivant par mer sans visa ne pourra plus s’y installer comme réfugié. Ces demandeurs d’asile seront déportés dans des centres en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée et ceux qui seront reconnus comme réfugiés pourront s’établir dans ce pays, mais pas en Australie. En échange, celle-ci financera la rénovation des routes et des universités de sa voisine mélanésienne.

▻http://www.lecourrier.ch/112387/les_boat_people_sur_l_autel_des_elections

Dream of a new life lay dashed on Manus Island

First the people smugglers separated husband and wife. Now the PNG solution has made it final.

More than 3000 kilometres of ocean lies between Gita* in Brisbane and husband Behrad* on Manus Island.

Behrad had been among boat people who landed on Christmas Island 13 days ago – four months behind his wife and two days after the Rudd government’s July 19 cutoff for asylum seekers hoping to settle in Australia. On Friday morning the 36-year-old arrived at the detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, the country he may have to call home for the rest of his life. The Iranian couple have little to no prospect of being reunited.

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Ici le #photoreportage de #KATE_GERAGHTY:
▻http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/1681315/video-photos-asylum-seekers-arrive-on-manus-island/?cs=55

▻http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/dream-of-a-new-life-lay-dashed-on-manus-island-20130802-2r51r.html

#photo #photographie

#Contre-propagande...

In response to the multi million dollar Federal Government ad campaign aimed at frightening middle class Australians, a group of tax-paying, voting (middle class) Australians installed 3m posters on Sydney’s busiest street. The very low budget ad campaign aims to tell a different story and point out the hypocrisy, and mean-spirited asylum seeker policy.

You came here by boat without visa, you settled in Australia

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J’ai mis à jour les news concernant l’Australie dans le site de www.asile.ch :
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Australian ‘Outsourcing’ of Refugees Challenged

SYDNEY, Aug 5 2013 (IPS) - The Australian asylum policy of rejecting boat arrivals has been condemned by the United Nations Refugee Agency, Pacific island leaders, migration experts and human rights organisations.

▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/australian-outsourcing-of-refugees-challenged

Bogans and boat people (Pt1)

The failure of the pro-refugee movement

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▻http://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/richard-cooke/2013/07/25/1374721635/bogans-and-boat-people-pt1

Why Australia hates asylum seekers:

It is a few days after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced his “PNG solution” to his latest political crisis, whereby no asylum seeker arriving by boat will be settled in Australia. My friend and colleague Karapanagiotidis, the founder and CEO of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), shows a rare moment of doubt and confusion. But it doesn’t last long before he’s thumping the table, remarshalling his forces.

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▻http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2013/september/1377957600/christos-tsiolkas/why-australia-hates-asylum-seekers

Citation :

But bringing up the colonial past can also normalise or nativise settler colonisation, and erase Indigenous subjectivity and sovereignty in slogans like ‘we are all boat people’. A focus on the moment of invasion or on the colonial past positions colonisation as history. It makes colonialisation a done deal, to which the only sensible responses are regret and apology, or pride and forgetfulness – but Australia has a colonial present. The border is not a natural or inevitable thing and neither is colonisation.
Understanding colonisation as an ongoing and always incomplete process suggests a future that’s open to change. It shifts the onus of explanation to those who want to create and maintain borders rather than those who want to question them. It challenges the myth that refugees are a breach in an otherwise secure border. And it reaches through to a space where white Australia is and can only ever be a fiction that is made material through violence.

#colonialisme #invasion #néo-colonialisme
►http://www.anarchistaffinity.org/2014/07/border-violence-as-settler-nativism