Corrosive places, inhuman spaces: Mental health in Australian immigration detention

McLoughlin, Pauline; Warin, Megan

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.06.008

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“…Children in long term immigration detention are at risk of serious mental harm (Jureidini and Burnside [56]; Mares et al [64]; Procter [89]). McLoughlin et al [70]) argue that it is not only asylum seekers' traumatic experiences in their home countries that create mental and physical sickness, but also the conditions of detention and the places of detention. Asylum seekers are "taken away from their homelands and stripped of personhood, they occupy an indeterminate space in which they are rendered structurally invisible.…”

Section: The Pacific Solutionmentioning

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The Pacific Solution – A Catastrophe for the Pacific!?

Weber¹

2015

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Weber¹

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“…Many scholars (Coffey et al, 2010;Hall, 2010;Wilder, 2007) call attention to the poor food, limited health care, sporadic or infrequent access to legal assistance, cold temperatures, and dehumanized nature of detention facilities. Detention facilities are psychologically destructive as well (McLoughlin& Warin, 2008). In just one of many examples of the psychological destruction that occurs within detention facilities, Oxfam Australia (Bem et al, 2007) documented conditions in facilities on Nauru in the mid-2000s, which included:…”

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Countering isolation with the use of technology: how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their confinement

Coddington

Mountz

2014

Journal of the Indian Ocean Region

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. (2014) 'Countering isolation with use of technology : how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their con nement.', Journal of the Indian Ocean region., 10 (1). pp. 97-112. Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Governments detain asylum seekers on islands across the Indian Ocean region, including Australia's Christmas, Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, Nauru, and across the Indonesian archipelago. Scholars and advocates alike have shown that the ambiguous jurisdiction and complex legal migration statuses that emerge in these areas, as well as their remote location and isolation, contribute to their popularity as sites of migrant detention. The negative effects of isolation and remoteness on migrants' physical and mental health, as well as their legal outcomes, have been well documented (e.g. Coffey et al. 2010). We argue, however, that detainees and others are countering the effects of isolation with the use of technology. Ethnographic research conducted on the islands within Australian and Indonesian migrant detention networks suggests that asylum seekers detained in remote sites across the region are combating the isolation of detention with use of mobile phones, internet access, and social media networks. They communicate with friends, relatives, legal representatives, advocates, activists, and members of the public beyond prison walls to transmit information, facilitate advocacy inside and outside of detention facilities, and construct transnational support networks. In turn, punitive policies to discipline asylum seekers by limiting methods of communication threaten these efforts.

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“…In Australia, for example, there has been considerable public concern about the conditions in privately run detention facilities and particularly the ability of private security firms to provide for the physical and mental health of detainees. 15 While it may be tempting to view the involvement of private enterprise in migration regulation as a sign of the state's failure to manage its borders, these developments can equally be seen as constituting a shift in modes of regulation rather than a fundamental change in state function. 16 Migration control is a politically fraught arena.…”

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Outsourcing Border Security: NGO Involvement in the Monitoring, Processing and Assistance of Indonesian Nationals Returning Illegally by Sea

Ford¹,

Lyons²

2013

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Since the signing of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, the Straits of Malacca have been identified as a "hot spot" for whole range of maritime security threats, including human trafficking and people smuggling. As a consequence, Indonesia's national and local authorities have been under immense pressure from the international community to develop and implement programmes that address these concerns. Multilateral agencies and other donor organizations have also pumped millions of dollars into counter-trafficking and anti-smuggling programmes in the Riau Islands. Much of the groundwork for both government and international initiatives is done by NGOs, most of which work to identify and assist repatriated migrant workers or victims of trafficking. In one case, however, a Batam-based NGO has gone far beyond this well-trodden path, developing a system to apprehend undocumented labour migrants who use the services of people smugglers to return to Indonesia without passing through immigration. This article examines the case of Gerakan Anti-Trafficking (Anti-Trafficking Movement, GAT) and its implications for our understanding of emerging modes of non-state involvement in border regulation.

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Corrosive places, inhuman spaces: Mental health in Australian immigration detention

Cited by 30 publications

References 18 publications

The Pacific Solution – A Catastrophe for the Pacific!?

The Pacific Solution – A Catastrophe for the Pacific!?

Countering isolation with the use of technology: how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their confinement

Outsourcing Border Security: NGO Involvement in the Monitoring, Processing and Assistance of Indonesian Nationals Returning Illegally by Sea

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