These Countries are Sending Refugees to Prison

The Nauru Australian Immigration Detention Center is Australia's dirty little secret. This is a secret prison, and it’s where Australia sends it migrants for processing. Anyone who is intercepted by boat traveling to Australia to claim asylum is sent here. Their asylum claims aren’t processed on the mainland, instead they are sent to this far flung island nation that has been paid off by the Australian government. And this isn’t the only deal they made.
Australia has another refugee prison on Christmas Island, and once had another on the island of Manus. This is what Australian policymakers have referred to as “the Pacific Solution”; their way of dealing with refugees without taking responsibility. The Pacific Solution has these refugees stuck in a kind of legal limbo, trapped in open air prisons, abandoned by the Australian government for years on end, where they often face abuse and human rights violations.
Australia has been at this for years. This process is called “border externalization”. And what it means is there are secret borders. Borders that prevent people from ever reaching their shores It’s a policy meant to push back enforcement of territory, to place the responsibility to protect and process refugees on other countries, usually developing countries. And it’s part of a broader attack on asylum seekers led by western nations.
Because Australia isn’t alone.
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The Pacific Solution:
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Remain in Mexico:
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EU/Frontex:
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UK Rwanda:
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UN Treaty:
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General Resources on Forms of Border Externalization:
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