Australian camp for asylum seekers

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This list contains current and closed Australian camps for asylum seekers . These camps are actually immigration detention centers. Because there the so-called boat people are being held in immigration custody, where they are being held without legal entitlement. You cannot raise or sue your asylum request in Australian courts.

With the Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) Act 2001 , the Australian Parliament removed the outlying areas of Ashmore and Cartier Islands , Cocos Islands and Christmas Island , although Australian territories , from its migration zone . This means that boat people who land there cannot apply for asylum and are committing a crime under Australian law. You can be deported or taken into immigration detention at any time. According to the MIGRATION ACT 1958 , this zone could be expanded at any time by a further legal act.

There are two camps outside Australian territory for the so-called boat people, the Nauru Regional Processing Center in the small island state of Nauru and the Manus Regional Processing Center in Papua New Guinea . The internment camp on the island of Manus has to be closed until October 31, 2017 according to a supreme judgment of the Constitutional Court of Papua Newquinea.

In January 2014, Scott Morrison , the Australian Minister for Immigration under Prime Minister Tony Abbott , announced the closure of three detention centers. At the end of February 2014, the Scherger camps in Queensland , Port Augusta in South Australia and Leonora in Western Australia were to be closed. Asylum seekers from these camps were distributed to the other Australian internment camps. The Ponteville camp in Tasmania was closed in September 2013.

The current Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton from the Liberal Party of Australia announced at the end of April 2016 that he would close the internment camps Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Center near Melbourne , Villawood Immigration Detention Center in Sydney and Perth Immigration Residential Housing Facility in Perth in the foreseeable future, provided that the occupancy numbers continue to decrease. This is a success of the stop the boats policy .

See also

Australian camp for asylum seekers
camp status Classification operator in operation closed Capacity
nominal ;
[Increasing tendency] 		location
Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Center closed maximum Australasian Correctional Management September 2002 August 2007 660; [220] Port Augusta , South Australia
Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Center in operation maximum Serco Australia Pty Limited 2001–2008 (temporarily) , 2008- 800 [688] Christmas Island
Cocos Island Contingency Reception Center closed maximum Australasian Correctional Management September 2001 March 2002 West Island , Cocos Islands
Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Center in operation maximum Serco Australia Pty Limited April 2010 (reopened) 1500 RAAF Curtin , Western Australia
Darwin Alternative Place of Detention closed medium Department of Immigration and Border Protection June 2014 585 Darwin Airport , Northern Territory
Inverbrackie Alternative Place of Detention in operation medium Serco Australia Pty Limited December 18, 2010 400 Woodside , South Australia
Leonora Alternative Place of Detention closed medium Serco Australia Pty Limited 2010 2014 210 Leonora , Western Australia
Manus Regional Processing Center in operation maximum Transfield Services 2001–2004, 2012– 1100 Manus , Manus Province , Papua New Guinea
Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Center in operation maximum Global Solutions Limited 1983 75; [5] Maidstone , Victoria
Nauru Regional Processing Center in operation maximum Transfield Services 2001–2008, 2012– 1200 Nauru
Northern Immigration Detention Center closed maximum Department of Immigration and Border Protection August 2001 June 2014 382; [164] Berrimah , Northern Territory
Perth Immigration Detention Center in operation maximum Department of Immigration and Border Protection 1981 55; [9] Perth Airport , Western Australia
Pontville Immigration Detention Center closed medium Serco Australia Pty Limited August 2011 September 2013 400 Brighton Army Camp, Pontville, Tasmania
Port Augusta Immigration Residential Housing closed medium Serco Australia Pty Limited 2010 2014 64 Port Augusta , South Australia
Port Hedland Immigration Reception and Processing Center closed maximum Australasian Correctional Management 1991 April 2003 600 Port Hedland , Western Australia
Scherger Immigration Detention Center closed maximum Serco Australia Pty Limited 2010 2014 596 RAAF Scherger , Queensland
Sydney Immigration Residential Housing in operation medium Serco Australia Pty Limited 2006 48 Villawood , New South Wales
Villawood Immigration Detention Center in operation maximum Department of Immigration and Border Protection 1981 510; [190] Villawood, New South Wales
Wickham Point Immigration Detention Center closed maximum Department of Immigration and Border Protection December 8, 2011 2016 1,000 Wickham Point , Northern Territory
Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Center closed maximum Australasian Correctional Management November 1999 April 2003 1500 Woomera , South Australia
Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Center in operation maximum Serco Australia Pty Limited June 27, 2012 600 Northam , Western Australia
Total occupancy 6518 ; [1271] (current)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Register of Legislation , 2001, on Australian government. Retrieved May 7, 2017
  2. ↑ MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 5 , 1958, on Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved May 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Scott Morrison announces closure of four immigration detention centers , January 14, 2014, on the Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved March 7, 2017
  4. ↑ Bridie Byrne: Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Center to close with land to be sold , May 6, 2016, on Maribyrnong Leader. Retrieved May 7, 2017
  5. ^ Manus Regional Processing Center . Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Archived from the original on February 26, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
  6. ^ The truth about Manus Island . "Amnesty International". Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2014.