Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia

This article describes the impact of immigration detention on the health of asylum seekers. Drawing on specific examples, it explores the roles of professional staff working within the detention system and/or challenging the practices as advocates. Using oral testimony from a citizen-initiated campa...

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Main Authors: Briskman, Linda, Zion, D., Loff, B.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5143
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description This article describes the impact of immigration detention on the health of asylum seekers. Drawing on specific examples, it explores the roles of professional staff working within the detention system and/or challenging the practices as advocates. Using oral testimony from a citizen-initiated campaign, The People's Inquiry into Detention, we interrogate the harmful experiences of force-feeding, deportation practices and the incarceration of children, including the role of the health professionals who sometimes betrayed their duty of care. Discussed are the paradoxes of dual loyalty and professional ethics.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-51432017-09-13T16:02:57Z Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia Briskman, Linda Zion, D. Loff, B. advocacy ethics asylum seekers health detention This article describes the impact of immigration detention on the health of asylum seekers. Drawing on specific examples, it explores the roles of professional staff working within the detention system and/or challenging the practices as advocates. Using oral testimony from a citizen-initiated campaign, The People's Inquiry into Detention, we interrogate the harmful experiences of force-feeding, deportation practices and the incarceration of children, including the role of the health professionals who sometimes betrayed their duty of care. Discussed are the paradoxes of dual loyalty and professional ethics. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5143 10.1080/13642980903007649 Routledge restricted
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ethics
asylum seekers
health
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Briskman, Linda
Zion, D.
Loff, B.
Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
title Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
title_full Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
title_fullStr Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
title_full_unstemmed Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
title_short Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
title_sort challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in australia
topic advocacy
ethics
asylum seekers
health
detention
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5143