Asylum Seekers: Refugee Applications

Boat Journey Dept: But his wife and child have arrived since May 7, when the government announced that all new boat arrivals will be sent to Malaysia, Papua New Guinea or a third country for their refugee applications to be processed. Almost 300 asylum seekers who have arrived since that date are similarly in limbo, according to CTV. The aim is to deter asylum seekers from coming to Australia by sending them to Malaysia, the country where most started their boat journey. The deal, which has yet to be completed, is expected to require Malaysia to safeguard the 800 asylum seekers from the brutal treatment other refugees complain of and the Iraqi-born father, whose name has not been made public in the interests of protecting his family, arrived in Australia in November 2009 and has since been accepted as a refugee, said David Manne, executive director of the Melbourne-based Refugee and Immigration Legal Center. Australia wants to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia in return for Australia resettling 4,000 registered refugees from among the 93,000 languishing in that Southeast Asian nation, which has not signed the UN Convention on Refugees and has been criticized for treating refugees harshly. As reported in the news.
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