Preventive detention: the ethical ground where politics and health meet. Focus on asylum seekers in Australia

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Preventive detention: the ethical ground where politics and health meet. Focus on asylum seekers in Australia

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 rig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Sheikh, M., Macintyre, C., Perera, Suvendrini
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	British Medical Journal Group 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35710

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