This thesis interrogates immigration detention as a space of intricate ambivalence - one which seeks to exclude, but which is also entreated to protect. The focus is so-called ‘unauthorised’ asylum seekers detained both within Australia and offshore on the Pacific island of Nauru between 1999 and 2003 - when the numbers of detained asylum seekers reached its maximum and the government introduced offshore processing centres. Australia’s immigration detention regime sits awkwardly with the discourse of universal human rights and brings into sharp conflict two robust political values: the right of endangered people to seek refuge and the right of the nation to determine who will enter. Focusing on the experiences of detainees reveals immigration detention as a complex regime through which the state’s dominating power targets the stateless, non-white, male body. This targeting is intentional, serving to secure sovereign borders and to rearticulate the naturalised ties between the national population and the modern state. Immigration detention holds the seeker in a limbo that sets parameters for the seeker’s experience of ongoing and intensifying insecurity. It specifically and intentionally fractures the identity of detainees: masochistic actions and collective protests, from hunger strikes to breakouts, reflect the common currency of anxiety and violence. The creation of offshore camps was, in part, a response to ongoing protests within onshore detention and the failure of onshore detention to stop boat arrivals. My chief focus here is the largest Pacific camp, ‘Topside’, on the island of Nauru. Unlike the onshore detention centres where publicised protests and breakouts screamed of continuing detention of asylum seekers, those on Nauru were effectively silenced. The thesis explores purpose as inscribed within the body of the exile. To give up hope for asylum is to face the possibility of endless wandering and death. Mechanisms of resistance, whether explicit protest or more passive waiting, are parts of the continuing struggle by the detained against mechanisms of exclusion and exception. The detained carve out small openings to contest their exclusion and to reassert an identity as survivors. There is a complex and fluid interplay between such resistance and government policies aiming to silence protest and limit identity – and ultimately to deter all unauthorised boat arrivals.

Thesis (M. Med.)--University of Melbourne, 1996. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of History, 1999. / Author's name on cover: C. Day. Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 409-418).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Genève. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-324).

Thesis (LL. M.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-132). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-169). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR29547

Thesis--Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269) and index.

Miljontals människor i världen har tvingats fly från sina hemländer undan krig, förföljelser och förtryck för att söka skydd i andra länder. Dessa människor blir asylsökande i mottagarlandet och som asylsökande är tillgången till sjukvård begränsad av lagstiftning. Asylsökande personer har dock ett komplext vårdbehov och många av dem kommer i kontakt med sjukvården. Syftet med studien var att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att möta asylsökande personer. Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie där nio vetenskapliga artiklar grundlade resultatet. Efter analys av artiklarna kunde två kategorier urskiljas: Organisationens påverkan i mötet med asylsökande och Samspelet mellan sjuksköterskor och asylsökande. Resultatet visade att sjuksköterskor upplevde att asylsökande personer hade svårt att förstå mottagarlandets hälso- och sjukvårdssystem och att det var viktigt att förklara hälso- och sjukvårdssystemet. Sjuksköterskor upplevde sig sakna tillräcklig kunskap om asylsökande personers vårdbehov och om olika kulturer. Sjuksköterskor upplevde kommunikationsproblem och svårigheter med att skapa en god vårdrelation med asylsökande personer. Ytterligare forskning behövs för att bättre kunna möta asylsökande personers vårdbehov och kunna överbrygga de svårigheter sjuksköterskor upplevde i mötet med asylsökande personer. / Millions of people have been forced to flee their native countries in order to seek protection from war, persecution and oppression. These people become asylum seekers in the host country and as asylum seekers they are only entitled to limited healthcare that is regulated by law. In fact, asylum seekers have a complex need of healthcare and many of them get in contact with the healthcare. The aim of this study was to describe nurses’ experiences of meeting asylum seekers. A literature review was conducted and nine scientific research articles were included in the study. After analyzing the articles two categories emerged: Organizational influence in the meeting with asylum seekers and Interaction between nurses and asylum seekers. The result showed that nurses experienced asylum seekers having a hard time understanding the healthcare system in the host country and that it was important to explain it to them. Nurses reported a lack of knowledge concerning the need of healthcare regarding asylum seekers and concerning different cultures. Nurses experienced difficulties in communicating and in building a good relationship with asylum seekers. The field is in need of further research in order to better meet the need of healthcare regarding asylum seekers and to overcome the difficulties experienced by nurses.

Invandring eller migration är ett hett politiskt ämne som ofta belyses i media, då det ofta målas upp som något negativt och fullt av problem. Studien syftar till att undersöka hur en del av asylprocessen kan se ut i Sverige. Till hjälp för detta har data insamlats med utgångspunkt från tre övergripande begrepp: åldersbedömning, sjukdomsdiagnostik och uppföljning. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med hjälp av en systematisk litteraturstudie. Resultatet tyder på att asylprocessen är en ytterst komplicerad process. Det är dock ett faktum att det finns problemområden exempelvis tillförlitligheten till radiologiska åldersbedömningar, men även konkreta exempel på förslag till förändringar.