Asylum Seeker
Resources
Online resources
This page lists a range of publications and online tools which you
can use to find Australian and international statistics on refugee and asylum
seeker issues.
Department
of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC)
Annual reports
www.immi.gov.au/about/reports/annual
DIAC's annual reports contain statistical data on migration to
Australia, refugee resettlement and processing of asylum applications.
Immigration detention
www.immi.gov.au/managing-australias-borders/detention/facilities/statistics
DIAC regularly publishes statistics on the numbers of people in
immigration detention, including information such country of origin, gender,
age, length of detention and where they are currently detained.
Statistical publications
www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/statistics
DIAC publishes a range of statistical publications on migration
flows and settlement in Australia. These include:
Asylum trends: an annual publication which provides statistics on
asylum applications, processing outcomes and the demographics of people seeking
asylum.
Immigration update: a biannual publication containing a summary of
immigration statistics including permanent additions, settler arrivals,
permanent departures, visitors, students and business visas.
Ministerial intervention statistics: a biannual publication which
contains an overview of Ministerial Intervention requests and outcomes.
Settler arrivals: an annual publication containing settler
arrivals statistics by birthplace, state of intended residence and eligibility
category.
Settlement Reporting Facility
The Settlement Reporting Facility is an online tool which provides
statistical data on permanent arrivals to Australia. You can use the tool to
sort and filter statistics by categories such as visa subclass, migration
stream, age, gender, religion, language spoken, country
of origin, area of residence and year of arrival in Australia.
Australian
Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Census data
www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/censushome.nsf/home/data?opendocument#from-banner=LN
The ABS website provides access to census data from 1911. The
website also features a range of tools which you can use to sort and filter
census data on particular topics.
Migrant and Ethnicity statistics
www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/c311215.nsf/web/migrant+and+ethnicity
The National Migrant Statistics Unit provides access to a range of
statistical information and publications on migrants to Australia and their
descendants.
Population clock
www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Web+Pages/Population+Clock?opendocument#from-banner=LN
The population clock provides a real-time projection of the
estimated resident population of Australia.
Australian
Parliamentary Library
Boat arrivals in Australia since 1976
This regularly-updated fact sheet includes statistics on boat
arrivals to Australia from 1976, by financial year and calendar year.
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Statistical Online Population Database
www.unhcr.org/pages/4a013eb06.html
This online statistical tool contains standardised
data on UNHCR's population of concern at country, regional and global levels.
Statistical publications
www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c4d6.html
Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialised
Countries
Global Trends Statistical Yearbooks - Projected Global
Resettlement Needs
Reports
Amnesty International report on Guantanamo Bay,
13 May 2005
An
important report from the Edmund Rice Centre: Deported to Danger
describing the danger to which failed asylum seekers have been returned by
Australia, sometimes because Australia provides those people with false papers
in order to remove them from the country. This report adds to the record
of Australia’s failure to adhere to basic humanitarian standards.
Comrie Report on the detention and unlawful removal of
Vivian Alvarez Solon
HREOC
report into Children in Detention: our “family friendly” nation
Human
Rights Commission report on Australia's detention camps: our national
disgrace
Human Rights Watch have just produced a damning report on Australia:
depressing reading
Palmer
Report on the detention of Cornelia Rau (1.2Mb pdf
file – may take a couple of minutes to load)
UN Working Group
report on arbitrary detention in Australia
Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre: Report on Nauru, the
blighted home of Australia’s “Pacific Solution”
Court Decisions
Full Federal Court requires Government to prove
removal safe: QAAH v
Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs
Federal
Court judge exposes DIMIA’s inadequate care for mental health of detainees: S v
Secretary of DIMIA
Detention
of children constitutional: re Woolley
8th October 2004
Indefinite
detention– al
Khateb, al Khafaji 6th August 2004
Inhumane
conditions in detention constitutionally valid: Behrooz 6th August 2004
Failed
refugee applicants can be removed regardless of the risk that they will
self-harm or suicide: Federal Court decision in WAJZ,
decided 14 October 2004
Recent
case on the rights of people held in custody: Re Rigoli [2005] VSCA 325
Memos
Baxter:
Legality of
Immigration Detention
Other
A letter to the Australian public from the Sri Lankan
asylum seekers on Nauru
A
layperson’s guide
to aspects of refugee law
Artists
helping refugees: visit Kate Durham’s website
Emmanuel
Ortiz: a poem for
September 11
From Nothing to Zero: letters from asylum
seekers in Australia’s detention centres, published by Lonely Planet.
Justice for Asylum Seekers publish A Better Way to treat
refugees
Letter writing
campaign: getting politicians to come clean about our refugee policy
Malcolm Fraser’s on-line petition:
End Australia’s Detention of Children (now closed)
News
Overboard: a fascinating and timely book by Iain Lygo
RAR: Myths and Facts
about mandatory detention and Petro Georgiou’s private member’s bill
Response
to deportation of Asylum Seekers: 20 November 2002, St Mary's cathedral
Schools
resource kit: finding
out about human rights in Australia
Speech:
Justice Marcus Einfeld: "Wake
up Australia: the new world order - the human dimension"
Submission
to HREOC enquiry into Children in Detention
Use of language analysis
in assessing refugee claims; compare with the guidelines for
proper use of language analysis.
Aust
Lawyers for Human Rights site
University of Minnesota Human Rights
Library
Conventions &
Treaties
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
Convention on the Rights
of the Child
Geneva Convention on
treatment of prisoners of war