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dc.contributor.authorSheikh, M.
dc.contributor.authorMacintyre, C.
dc.contributor.authorPerera, Suvendrini
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:51:15Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:51:15Z
dc.date.created2015-03-03T20:15:43Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationSheikh, M. and MacIntyre, C. and Perera, S. 2008. Preventive detention: the ethical ground where politics and health meet. Focus on asylum seekers in Australia. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 62: pp. 480-483.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35710
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/jech.2007.061028
dc.description.abstract

Australia has a history of migration, especially during the wars in Europe, but many have forgotten the difficulties underlying asylum and wars endured by their forefathers. Preventive, indefinite detention of asylum seekers, most of whom are found to be genuine refugees, impinges on their human rights. The mental and physical health consequences of detention in this already traumatised group are significant, particularly in children. There are abundant studies to support this but, even as these studies continue to be done, asylum seekers languish in detention centres. To be fully addressed, the health implications of detention cannot be considered in isolation, but must be considered frankly and openly by health professionals in the broader historical and political context within which they occur. If we do not do this, we risk turning a blind eye to, or even condoning, human rights abuses.

dc.publisherBritish Medical Journal Group
dc.titlePreventive detention: the ethical ground where politics and health meet. Focus on asylum seekers in Australia
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume62
dcterms.source.startPage480
dcterms.source.endPage483
dcterms.source.issn0143-005X
dcterms.source.titleJournal of Epidemiology & Community Health
curtin.departmentDepartment of Communication and Cultural Studies
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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