Sentences with phrase «asylum policies of»

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In Jarrod's home country, immigration and asylum has long been a source of political debate, and the pastor has made a name for himself by opposing the draconian detention policies of the Australian government.

«Government policy is to use a carrot and stick approach of making rejected asylum seekers destitute while offering very basic support if applicants say they will «voluntarily» return to the place they fled,» reads the CAP website.

Sweden's Migration Agency has received backlash due to its policy of testing Christian asylum seekers... More

When asked about the Rudd Government policy of not allowing any asylum seekers to settle in Australia if they come by boat, less than half (42 %) of Australians agree.

The government should allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants living in the UK to become British citizens, Boris Johnson has insisted, as he launched a stinging attack on the government's immigration and asylum policies.

But Farron says he picked the asylum seekers policy because «it's a measure of Nick Clegg's integrity and determination».

There is a big difference, of course, between imposing tougher asylum and migration policies and xenophobic violence.

The majority of today's nation states have adopted largely restrictive asylum policies whereby not everyone with a «well - founded fear of prosecution» and on sturdy legal grounds are granted asylum.

He argued the «EU has failed us all» through its common asylum policy and said «within a few years all of these people will have EU passports».

He was on a sabbatical studying International Journalism in Cardiff University and recently finished a journalistic dissertation on «Economic Integration of Asylum Seekers and Refugees: Challenges and Fallout of Policy Approach in the UK».

The Home Office and accommodation providers should work more effectively together to identify and meet the needs of vulnerable asylum seekers, such as torture survivors, and correctly apply the torture concessions within the «allocation of accommodation» policy.

Spurred by fear of Trump's immigration policies, there's been a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking asylum and crossing illegally from upstate New York into Canada.

Europe has to make up its mind: Managing migration through asylum policies alone ignores the mixed motives of people on the move.

The free movement of persons within the Schengen space has not been completed by a fully fledged common asylum and immigration policy and management of external borders.

In 2008, the European Union finally decided to give a new impetus to the development of a common immigration and asylum policy.

We believe that there are policy changes which could play a role in supporting asylum - seeking torture survivors and refugees in coping with the reality of loneliness.

In the Lords, Ashdown also condemned the policy of deporting refugee children when they are 18, if they are not granted asylum.

According to Søren Jessen - Petersen, former Assistant UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the EU, in the absence of a common migration policy, has for years attempted to manage migration through asylum policies.

Today's confirmation that Labour will end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers means the Conservatives are the only major party still supporting the policy.

«My colleagues choose their own language, but these are human beings who are in desperate peril and in Europe we've always been proud of our policy of asylum, that we are a safe haven for those who are caught in this peril and I think it's very important to remember that.»

Probably the party will increase the requirements for asylum seekers to check in with authorities in the community in order to placate concerns about the effect of the policy.

The government has already been accused of deserting its promise to end the detention of children in immigration centres — a change that would have signaled one of the Lib Dem's few influences on policy and demonstrated that the government was at last sympathetic to the cause of asylum seekers.

Another change of policy which smacks of too much Tory influence, is the announcement last week that a ban on sending more than 10,000 failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe is to be lifted.

The policy of returning gay asylum seekers back to their country of origin has been dealt a double blow with a supreme court defeat and condemnation from the United Nations (UN).

Barnardo's, which has previously been extremely critical of the Labour government's immigration policy, is being drafted in to ensure welfare standards once families have their lost asylum appeal.

A stormy session of Prime Minister's Question Time this lunchtime saw Tony Blair attack the Conservative Party's asylum and immigration policy.

«Some of the practices employed at the Dungavel detention centre in Scotland, including the detention of children, have been absolutely shameful and show why we need a new direction when it comes to asylum and immigration policy.»

The government has been urged to review its policy of housing failed asylum seekers with foreign prisoners in the wake of the latest immigration mishap.

There are four pillars of an effective asylum and refugee policy: enabling people toreach the UK legally, making sure they receive a fair and quick hearing, providing them with the security of decent housing and income during that process, and finally in some cases helping them to return home with dignity if they choose and are able to do so.

Gove will use his speech to warn that the European court of justice will decide whether prisoners can vote, intervene on how intelligence services monitor suspected terrorists, and control asylum and refugee policy.

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In this Policy Forum, Randall Hansen and Shalini Randeria discuss the different ideological viewpoints of liberals and conservatives in Europe with respect to accepting refugees, highlighting why — even though the continent is not bearing the «brunt» of the refugee crisis — it remains «in the center of a political and social storm» related to refugees asylum.

What makes it worse is that South Africa is adopting the developed countries stance, most precisely European Union policies, towards treatment of refugees and asylum - seekers.

The ANC Policy Discussion Document of 2012 explains the motives behind curbing economic migrants, refugees and asylum - seekers.

This article will illustrate political attitudes of the government of South Africa towards refugees and asylum - seekers that influences adoption of national policies, which do not promote favourable access to tertiary education.

In addition to national policies, South Africans» anti-foreigner or xenophobic attitudes challenge the Government of South Africa to defend refugees», asylum - seekers, and economic migrants» rights to access South Africa resources.3

Lubbers observed that the issues of an asylum - seeking have henceforth been approached with prudence and led to close scrutiny of both refugee and immigration regulations.37 Refugees and asylum - seekers are the most victims of the growing climate of fear of terrorism and other transnational crimes and thus being treated with suspicion, and sometimes, arbitrary detained and, actually, deported.38 The states are changing their refugee - immigration related policies because of concern that the terrorists may gain entry to the territory through the channel of asylum system.39

Their special personal situation, as asylum seekers, as pregnant women, as victims of torture and trauma or as children, is not a subject of concecrn because the rules applied in these centers are first of all those of migration policy.

South Africa's asylum law is an asylum policy based on self - settlement / integration and self - sufficiency.9 It has been praised by the UNHCR as one of the most progressive in the world.

Like many Western countries, South Africa has adopted an urban asylum policy, which is based on the temporary protection of refugees.1 To that end, refugees and asylum - seekers are treated as «temporary residents,» a legal position that implicitly subjects them to restrictive immigration principles, namely exclusivity and self - sufficiency.2 Such treatment is inimical to the purpose and principles of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugees in Africa.

Dog, a twin - channel video, takes the tragic death of Aleksandr Dolmatov as a starting point in conversations on European policies of refugees and asylum.

In the Howard government Philip Ruddock, the small - l Liberal who served as immigration minister, prosecuted a policy of systematic cruelty towards asylum seekers.

In the same week, Turnbull labelled Labor's proposal to double the intake of refugees as a «gesture to the Greens» on the back of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's attack on the Greens» asylum - seeker policy.

At this particular time of political and social turmoil, a little more coherence, clarity, and if the author may add, circumscription in the EU asylum policy is essential.

However, considering the recent developments in Belgian asylum policy and the country's record with regard to the assessment of asylum applications, it is doubtful whether this should be considered as a reason to hope for a decision that would allow X and X to enter Belgium.

It is difficult to understand why the Court shies away from ruling for the applicability of the Charter, for extending the protection of the Charter to those so obviously in need of protection, especially in a time that the EU's asylum policy and actions have raised so many doubts about the EU's self - professed dedication to human rights.

Coming at a time in which migration and asylum are topics often used to manipulate the political opinion of the electorate both in Europe and in the world, the opinion could serve as a wake - up call as it recalibrates the EU's migration and asylum policy on the fundamental values it is constructed on: respect for human rights and obligations stemming from international treaties.

She advocates, speaks and writes regularly on issues relating to the human rights of refugees and migrants, including legal representation, detention, U.S. asylum law and policy, and protection from xenophobic and bias - motivated violence.

This policy position would force thousands of gay asylum seekers back to their countries of origin and having to not only lie about their true selves, but more importantly to engage with «proving» a straight identity which is completely alien to their true selves.