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dc.contributor.authorFleay, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorHartley, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:34:36Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:34:36Z
dc.date.created2015-12-10T04:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationFleay, C. and Hartley, L. 2016. ‘I Feel Like a Beggar’: Asylum Seekers Living in the Australian Community Without the Right to Work. Journal of International Migration and Integration. 17 (4): pp. 1031-1048.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22942
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12134-015-0453-x
dc.description.abstract

While numbers of asylum seekers received by Australia are small compared to global figures, a range of deterrence measures have been implemented in response to increasing numbers arriving by boat in recent years. One of the more recent measures was denying asylum seekers who arrived by boat after 13 August 2012 the right to work upon their release from immigration detention into the community. There are around 26,000 asylum seekers who have been subject to this policy with most still waiting for their initial interview for refugee status and none have had their refugee claims resolved. This paper examines the findings of a study that explored the implications of this policy for asylum seekers. It draws on 29 semi-structured interviews with asylum seekers and highlights the distress and fear that many are enduring, caused by the denial of the right to work and ongoing uncertainty about their refugee claims. The study’s findings provide support for the conclusions of earlier research that highlight the importance of the right to work and securing employment for the mental health of asylum seekers, as well as studies that found there were negative mental health consequences of forcing asylum seekers to live for long periods with uncertainty around their protection claims.

dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers
dc.title‘I Feel Like a Beggar’: Asylum Seekers Living in the Australian Community Without the Right to Work
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.issn1488-3473
dcterms.source.titleJournal of International Migration and Integration
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The final publication is available at Springer via http://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-015-0453-x

curtin.departmentCentre for Human Rights Education
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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