Failed asylum seekers: Sri Lanka - Research Update May 2015
Since 2003 the Edmund Rice Centre has maintained a program of systematic research to uncover what happens to the asylum seekers rejected by Australia. A key focal area of that work in recent years has been the situation of failed asylum seekers from Sri Lanka.
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Interim Research Update, August 2014
Through its Deportations Research program the Edmund Rice Centre has since 2002 conducted considerable research to determine what happens to the asylum seekers that Australia rejects. That research has to date seen the publication of two major reports.
Out of grave concern formed from revelations of the ongoing and systemic mistreatment of asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka, evidence collected by ERC is made available here in this Interim Research Update in the form of the following case note summaries.
Deported to Danger II - September 2006
Deported to Danger II - The Continuing Study of Australia's Treatment of Rejected Asylum Seekers - September 2006
Deported To Danger - No Liability - October 2003
No Liability - Tragic Results from Australia's Deportations (Interim Report).
Download - Background Briefing on False Passport Allegations - October 2003