2018
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105153
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Should clinicians boycott Australian immigration detention?

Abstract: Australian immigration detention has been called state sanctioned abuse, cruel and degrading and likened to torture. Clinicians have long worked both within the system providing healthcare and outside of it advocating for broader social and political change. It has now been over 25 years and little, if anything, has changed. The government has continued to consolidate power to enforce these policies and has continued to attempt to silence dissent. It was in this context that a boycott was raised as a possible … Show more

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“…This is well established. This is not to say that Psychologists should not be involved (and the debate in relation to a boycott is beyond the scope of this article; e.g., Berger & Miles, 2016;Essex, 2018;Jansen, Tin, & Isaacs, 2017;Sanggaran, 2016); however, such involvement is unlikely to lead to justice or redress for the many and ongoing rights abuses. This is why it is encouraging that the APS has framed its position statement broadly, debates are needed, racism and xenophobia are a problem, and Psychologists should have a leading role in public discourse.…”
Section: The Need To For An Adversarial Approachmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…This is well established. This is not to say that Psychologists should not be involved (and the debate in relation to a boycott is beyond the scope of this article; e.g., Berger & Miles, 2016;Essex, 2018;Jansen, Tin, & Isaacs, 2017;Sanggaran, 2016); however, such involvement is unlikely to lead to justice or redress for the many and ongoing rights abuses. This is why it is encouraging that the APS has framed its position statement broadly, debates are needed, racism and xenophobia are a problem, and Psychologists should have a leading role in public discourse.…”
Section: The Need To For An Adversarial Approachmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…However, Nauru detention employment is via a private business in a foreign country, ‘which means geography, and several levels of agreements, contracts and operating procedures, stymie transparency and external oversight’ 17. The Australian government has deliberately ensured that Nauru as a country is a closed island, running an opaque system, which hides the suffering within the detention environment 43 50 51. Finally, there is an argument that positive change could occur through workers’ day-to-day acts that purposely undermining the system.…”
Section: Dual Loyalty or Moral Jeopardy?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While the healthcare community has debated a boycott [35] and engaged in broader efforts to bring about systemic change, clinicians continue to work in these environments and are likely to do so into the foreseeable future.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%