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What next for the refugees and failed asylum seekers on Manus Island?
Publisher
Refugees
Right of asylum
Asylum seekers
Refugee settlement
Offshore detention
Manus Island
Description
The Australian-funded regional processing centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), is due to close on 31 October. This will bring to an end, after five years, the Australian Government practice of offshore processing of asylum seekers on Manus Island (the processing centre on Nauru remains open however). With less than a week until its closure, over 600 men remain in the processing centre. Most of these have been found to be refugees (141 have been found not to be refugees). Their options , according to Australian officials, are to resettle in PNG, transfer to Nauru and hope for resettlement in the USA, or return to the country from which they fled.
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Publication Details
Copyright:
Parliament of Australia 2017
License type:
CC BY-NC-ND
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
1 Nov 2017
