[Commpsych] FW: Open letter from academics regarding asylum seekers and refugees

[Heather Gridley]

Dear colleagues - please consider signing the open letter below if it accords with your understanding of asylum-seeker policy. It will go to the Expert Panel which is taking submissions until next Thursday, but this one (primarily from academics) needs to be signed by 5pm WA timTODAy, ie 7pm EST.

...just a pity we still need to be saying this stuff  :(

Heather

From: Anne Pedersen
Sent: Monday, 9 July 2012 12:32 PM
To: Anne Pedersen
Subject: Open letter from academics regarding asylum seekers and refugees

We are refugee advocates and academics working in the field of asylum seekers.  We are becoming increasingly alarmed about the politics which are playing out about asylum seekers.  As you may know, there is an Expert Panel led by Angus Houston that the government has tasked with providing a report about the best way forward in dealing with asylum seeker issues; public submissions are being called for.  There are also a number of concerned MPs who are meeting over the winter parliamentary recess to discuss this issue.

We would like to contribute to these deliberations and, to this end, we have put together an open letter outlining our concerns about issues such as turning back the boats, Nauru, the Malaysian Solution and temporary protection visas.  We have also included recommendations that are focused on the needs of asylum seekers.  As well as giving to the letter to the Expert Panel, we will also send it to some politicians.


If you agree with the content of the letter, and would like to put your name to it as an academic working in this field, please do so. You can do this by going to the web link: http://scored.murdoch.edu.au:8008/survey/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=8232982
Could you please note your professional title, name and affiliation?  For example
Associate Professor Anne Pedersen, Murdoch University.

 We don’t have much time so we will shut down this web site at 5pm, Perth time, on Thursday, 12th July.

We would also be very grateful if you could forward the link to any other academics working in the asylum-seeker field who may be interested.

Thanks very much

Anne Pedersen and Caroline Fleay

A/Professor Anne Pedersen
School of Psychology
Murdoch University
South Street
Perth, Western Australia 6150
Tel  61 (08) 9360 6488
Fax 61 (08) 9360 6492
http://www.psychology.murdoch.edu.au/staff/pedersen.html



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