Persuasive Essay On Asylum Seekers

Australia receives less asylum seekers annually than many first world and third world countries, yet we manage to process them less humanely than many other places around the world. Eighty per cent of the world’s asylum seekers are hosted in developing countries that cannot afford to lock people in detention, meaning that they have to find alternate ways of dealing with the matter in question, which Australia considers an inconvenient problem. But the problem is caused by just over 3 per cent of the world’s 1.1 million (UNHCR, 2014) asylum seekers who make their way to Australia each year, however our policies are extremely harsh and completely unnecessary, when compared to how other countries conduct the processing of claims. Taking into account this miniscule number, Australia is nevertheless the only country to impose mandatory detention for asylum seekers, despite the fact that eighty-eight

3-4), determine that the rate of acceptance is very high. Aside from this, Australia is in the top three countries in the world, along with the USA and Canada, for the highest amount of asylum seekers settled per capita, proving that there is no need for the type of mandatory detention in the way it is being applied at present. Sweden is a good example of a country implementing a sensible and humane course of action for processing claims; on arrival, asylum seekers are detained, although only until their identity has been proven, the process of which cannot exceed six months. If it does, they are released from detention on a humanitarian basis. While in detention they are not subject to barbed-wire fences and faulty medical aid as they are in Australia, but are given “full access to legal advice, counselling and have the right to appeal their being held in detention” (2013, p.