Activity 17: Internment Today - For discussion
When asylum seekers arrive in Britain today they are detained in ‘reception centres’ whilst their application is being processed. Arguments for detaining asylum seekers Arguments against detaining asylum seekers
Read through the following chart that outlines the arguments for and against this procedure then discuss the points that follow.
So the government can investigate the truth of their claims of persecution.
Legal papers can be issued without needing people to be held in closed reception centres.
To keep them away from other citizens.
There is lots of space in this country for people to live in.
So the government can process their identification and legal papers.
In a multicultural society all people should mix – citizens, refugees and visitors.
So the government can find them somewhere to live.
They have fled persecution so should not be made to feel like criminals here.
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Which arguments seem to you to be based on a stronger sense of justice?
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Which arguments are in line with Article 14 of the Declaration of Human Rights?
