Topic > Essay on Detention of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

INTRODUCTION• Explain what the asylum procedure is• Introduction• HR RIGHT look at that shitWe as human beings have the right to be free from persecution. It is our obligation, if we can provide it, to protect human lives wherever possible (Allard 2013). According to Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948, everyone has the right to seek and enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries. When and why do we detain those seeking protection? Furthermore, because there has been an increase and expansion in the detention of immigrants and asylum seekers (Silverman, Massa 2012). The detention of asylum-seeking immigrants has become commonplace in high-income Western societies, and even in low-income societies, some fully funded by neighboring higher-income countries (Kotsioni et al. 2013; Silverman, Massa 2012). Detention facilities are used as a deterrent, • If detention is seen and used as a deterrent to combat illegal immigration, why do we continue to see the number of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers increase year after year? • My focus for this article is the marginalization of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in terms of the use of immigration detention centers as a method of deterrence, The marginality and exclusion experienced by immigrants and refugees is due to MARGINALIZATION AND EXCLUSION The traditional nation state is what gives society and its citizens their sense of cohesion. It is therefore the duty of the nation state to protect its citizens and their interests, while providing health and social services to its members. The question then becomes: without a state, who should protect your rights? When you escape...... middle of paper ......aised [insert something]• Through the underground economy• To• We need total transparency of what happens within these structures.• Ideally , dissolving immigration and detention facilities overall would allow asylum seekers full inclusion in society. This would be a step in the right direction in terms of human rights. . We have learned that detention centers are profit centers, some of which are publicly traded, most of which are privately owned and operated.• We lose sight of the real reason these immigrants came here, in turn.• There must be accountability for human rights violations when the violators are actual sovereign states. While human rights are an ethical issue, • RESPONSIBILITY – WHO DO WE BLAME, WHAT KIND OF PUNISHMENTS ARE APPLIED TO THOSE WHO CHALLENGE/INTERRUPT/VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS