How Australia inspired the UK’s floating detention centre
Aug 20, 2023•19 min•Ep. 1035
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Episode description
Asylum seekers in the UK may face a new fate once they arrive: being loaded onto an enormous 10,000-ton barge, floating in a port on the south coast of England.
It’s part of a new hardline-migration policy being rolled out by the British government, and it’s being sold to the public with a slogan that will sound familiar to Australians: ‘Stop the boats’.
Today, lawyer Madeline Gleeson from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW, on how ideas from Australia led to Britain’s floating detention centre.
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Guest: Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW, Madeline Gleeson
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