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How Do Asylum Seekers And Refugees Affect Australia

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Throughout Australia's history, asylum seekers and refugees have had a significantly important and positive effect on the nation and its society. They both have had fundamentally important impacts on Australia. Refugees and asylum seekers have two distinct meanings, an asylum seeker is an individual who is seeking protection in another country but their claims have not yet been accepted and are in a review phase they will not be allowed in the country and are denied work rights. While a refugee is a person who has fled their country of origin due to many internal problems and is unable to return, their claims have been accepted by the country that they have sought asylum for and is been let in the country. Some of the important and crucial …show more content…

More than 10 million people have migrated to Australia. The migrations were motivated due to there being events like the 1850s gold rush and a never-ending desire for skilled labour. Migrants from all around the world have also moved to Australia to peruse a better life not only for themselves but for their family as well. Immigration increased dramatically after World War 2 when much of Europe was destroyed and people migrated to countries that were not affected by the war, for example, Australia and United States of America. According to Museums Victoria Collections during 1947 to 1981 over a million people from Briton immigrated to Australia majority of whom travelled under the ten pound assisted passage scheme which allowed for more of an affordable travel to Australia …show more content…

This is because they are being kept in to offshore detention centres for vast amounts of time and are not given any details of when they will arrive in Australia and are also denied work rights while their claims are being investigated. The people put inside these camps have been enduring horrible condition and have limited human rights while they are kept there. When asylum seekers try and come to Australia by boat they are transferred to two offshore detention centres which are located on two islands in the Pacific Ocean. These islands are called Manus and Nauru. Both offshore detention centres where opened in 2001 by then Prime Minister John Howards government as a part of his Pacific Solution. The Pacific Solution was implemented to stop people from making a treacherous voyage from their countries by boat to Australia. This worked as the number of people that travelled to Australia by boat after the implement drastically decreased. It went from 5516 people in 2001 below 150 annually until 2008 according to Wikipedia (reference). Due to an election promise by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd both detention centres where suspended. In August 2012 former Prime Minister Julia Gillard reopened both of the offshore detention facilities this was due to a drastic increase in the number of asylum seekers that were arriving in Australia by boat. In 2013 it was stated by the Australian government that any

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