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Statelessness Working Paper Series No. 2017/06

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Children Born in Australia’s Asylum System

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Author: A. Hirsch

Journal / Publisher: Statelessness Working Paper Series

Volume / issue: 2017/06

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Description: This paper highlights the precarious situation for stateless children born in Australia’s asylum system. While they have a right to Australian citizenship under international law, the Australian Government has placed a range of hurdles in their path to delay and deny citizenship to certain groups within this cohort. Those whose parents arrived by boat after July 2013 face indefinite detention in Australia’s offshore processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. For those born in Australia, they are not granted neither a permanent visa nor citizenship. The only available option for this group is to apply for citizenship under Australian law. However, applicants have faced extensive delays, due in part to the difficulty in proving their identity.

Type of resource

Academic publication

Source

NGO : ISI

Region

Asia / Pacific

Country

Australia

Theme

Children

Framework

UN Statelessness Conventions

Date published: Dec 1, 2017

Source URL: Direct Link

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WP2017_06.pdf
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