Protecting Boat People

Remarks prepared for delivery to Association Québécoise des Avocats et Avocates en Droit de l’immigration, Montreal 21 October 2011.Remarques préparées pour livraison à l’Association Québécoise des avocats et avocates en droit de l’immigration, Montréal, le 21 octobre 201

Australia’s boat people problem: is the Pacific solution really a solution?

Providing a brief history of boat arriving asylum seekers in Australia, as well as the various government solutions to cope with an increase in numbers, this paper asks whether New Zealand would be better placed, before PNG, to accommodate a greater number of people

A Just and Sustainable Solution to the Boat People Predicament in Australia?

Since the year 2000, there have been close to two thousand deaths of asylum seekers at sea as a result of foiled attempts to travel to Australia in order to seek protection under the United Nations Convention and Protocol on the Status of Refugees.[1] Many thousands more have made it to shore. Growing numbers of irregular or unauthorized migrants attempting to reach the United States and the European Union has long been known as a contentious policy issue in these states, but perhaps less known is the situation on the other side of the Pacific. Australia is the eight-largest recipient of asylum seekers in the industrialized world, receiving around 4% of the global applications for asylum, a relatively minimal amount considering that the state has the capacity to take on a much greater burden of the international refugee crisis.[2] In addition, the policies that are currently in place are primarily seeking to deter the arrival of ‘boat people’ and associated people smuggling activity, rather than to constructively manage the flow while upholding the individual rights of those seeking refuge under international law. This paper deconstructs the restrictive policies of the Australian government and proposes a more sustainable solution, drawing widely from research literature, government publications and media reports that use both primary and secondary sources to build a strong case for an alternative program. The policy that I found best balances the costs and benefits for both the asylum seekers in question as well as the Australian government is a combination of short-term onshore detention and community-based processing and integration. There is a robust debate in Australia over refugees and asylum policy, but in order for such a bill to be feasible in the Australian context, a major transformation of the public’s attitude is essential. [1] The study sponsored by Monash University has compiled a database of border deaths, and has found that 1911 deaths have occurred at sea since 2000, how the true numbers are not known as there is no official government database that has been published. See: Macleod, Kenneth. Deadly Voyages: Border Related Deaths Associated with Australia. SBS News. April 23, 2015, and Australian Border Deaths Database. Monash University: The Border Crossing Observatory. October, 2014 and Bullock, Chris. Asylum Seekers: Drowning on Our Watch. ABC Radio National. September 1, 2013.[2] Australia Asylum: Why Is It Controversial? - BBC News. BBC News. December 5, 2014

Flag Raising Device

The motivation for this project stems from a lifetime of boating with father Richard Jones. One problem that many people encounter, including Richard, was when towing someone behind a boat, is the difficulty with handling the warning flag. This flag is used to show other surrounding boats that someone has fallen into the water behind their boat. This warns other boats to stay far away from that area to keep safe from running over the swimmer. Although, when holding the flag in the boat, it can be hard to see at times. The boat driver, or other people standing in the boat, can sometimes get in the way from other boats surrounding to see the flag. This device will essentially put the flag on top of the boat tower, which will make the flag a lot easier to see. This brings much more security and safety for all the different kinds of water sports

THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL BOAT RACING FESTIVAL ON THE TOURISM DEVELOPEMENT IN VIENTIANE CAPITAL, LAOS. : Based on perception of Lao people

This research aimed to explore and describe the roles of traditional boat racing festival on the tourism development in Vientiane Capital, Laos, with analysis many aspects involved in traditional boat racing festival such as economic activities, people involved and related places. This research was using descriptive and quantitative method, with employing questionnaire forms to collect data from spectators, students, private staff, business and government staff in total 99 people during the competition day in October, 2016. The finding indicated that almost 76% of the respondents regarded that traditional boat racing festival gave positive contribution on tourism development in Vientiane capital and to preserved the traditional sport event in Laos, with such additional benefits including 63% regarded traditional boat racing festival on improving the local tourism organization, 32% to increase income of local people, 50% to promote Vientiane tourism development, 34% to develop the local tourism infrastructure, 52% to enhance traditional sport event knowledge among Lao people. This research hopefully could become beneficial information to the local government on how to develop similar program, to promote Laos, especially tourism sites in Vientiane Capital, provide information on how to improve infrastructure of local tourism places through the sports events

The Truama of the "Boat People"

Sixty-four Vietnamese Chinese refugees were asked to report "What happened during the flight?" as part of a survey conducted by Lawrence Lam of York University. The chart lists the events most frequently experienced by these "boat people.

Boat Representation in Nusantara Architecture

Architecture is one of the arts of cultural product, archipelago culture rooted in traditional culture, vice versa. Traditional architecture is very diverse in Indonesia, along with the diversity of its ethnic. Traditional architecture is building with form and function which has its own characteristic, inherited from generation to generation that can be used to hold activity by the people around it. Therefore, traditional architecture is the cultural expression and direct reflection in presenting something by its people. Some Nusantara Architectures adopt boat as the representation for building’s form. Therefore, the author is interested to prove the correlation of boat as representation in some archipelago architectures. This research uses data search method through literature studies by collecting data on some researched archipelago architecture buildings' form and construction system. From these data, a correlation between boat form representation and construction system used in boats and buildings can be concluded. Keyword: Nusantara Architecture, Form of Architecture,  Boat Construction, Boat Representation