Australian Media and Islamophobia: Representations of Asylum Seeker Children

Australia's treatment of refugee and asylum seeker children: the views of Australian paediatricians.

OBJECTIVE Australia's response to refugees and people seeking asylum is a matter of national debate. We sought to determine the knowledge and attitudes of paediatricians about refugee and asylum seeker issues (both onshore and offshore). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In November 2013, we emailed a questionnaire web link to all Australian general and community paediatricians registered with...

‘Too Prosperous?’ Indonesian Responses to Australian Asylum-seeker Policies

Foreign citizens without legal documents or awaiting deportation are held in the Karantina Imigrasi or Immigration Quarantine supposedly a place of temporary detention. There is, however, no effective time limit on detention and no working formal method of case review. There is also a lack of clear and routinely-followed guidelines as to how asylum-seekers should be dealt with. Indonesia has no...

The need for a rights-based public health approach to Australian asylum seeker health

Public health professionals have a responsibility to protect and promote the right to health amongst populations, especially vulnerable and disenfranchised groups, such as people seeking asylum and whose health care is frequently compromised. As at 31 March 2016, there was a total of 3707 people (including 384 children) in immigration detention facilities or community detention in Australia, wi...

Nursing of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Families: An Integrative Review

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...