https://padlet.com/jbalint/oc90z6qz4p98 At what point/decision is debate usually focused? Where else could we place our focus? en-us 2019-07-19 11:18:46 UTC 2025-09-26 10:38:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jbalint/oc90z6qz4p98/wish/371850847 Not about conditions of life in the "home country"

Debate is about legitimacy of the claims (i.e. "how do we know that these people are really refuges)

Focused on people smugglers, the one's that provide boats/avenues for passage to Australia.

Debate about what do we do with refugees...the idea of refugees settled in Australia is foreclosed.

The focus is on refugee choices (e.g. you could have sought asylum in indonesia/malysia instead of engaging people smugglers)

Where else could we place our focus?

"There shouldn't be refugees in the first place"...what does this entail? 

Addressing economic, political, ethnic etc. instability and conflict...

Address the inability of the UNHCR(?) to enforce the refugee convention 

Focusing on the needs of refugees (i.e. safety and security of people seeking asylum, rather than adherence to a vague notion of "national security") 

Focus on effective policies for settlement and "integration" of people seeking asylum (options for housing, employment, education etc.) 


]]> 2019-07-22 04:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jbalint/oc90z6qz4p98/wish/371850847 https://padlet.com/jbalint/oc90z6qz4p98/wish/371850965 -raising the age
-rehabilitation 
-conditions in current youth detentions 
-the labelling of children and young people after being incarcerated 


-should focus on broader societal issues
-unemployment
-poverty
-access to education
-easy access to the right social services 
-sense of community support and belonging  
-marginalisation of indigenous youth in society 
-placing youth in detention in the first place 
-effective rehabilitative practices
-social construction of criminality 
-the location
-social norm of 'naming and shaming'




]]> 2019-07-22 04:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jbalint/oc90z6qz4p98/wish/371850965 https://padlet.com/jbalint/oc90z6qz4p98/wish/371851680 - difficulty in recognising conditions as slavery
- labelled as "poor working conditions" and seen as necessary part of the global production/consumption enterprise
- capitalist focus on shifting individual consumption habits (e.g. buying more 'ethical products') rather than on addressing structural conditions
- where it occurs (e.g. focus on the global south in terms of garment production, but ignores the presence of slavery in most countries)

Alternative focus
- reducing consumption/challenging the need for cheaper, high-volume production


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