Evidence suggests that Australia mandatory detention policy is associated with mental illness among asylum seekers in both onshore facilities and community arrangements. The objective of this review is to critically examine mandatory detention policy with a focus on onshore asylum seekers in detention facilities and community arrangements. The databases searched for this literature review includes articles and reports written between January 1st, 1992 to April 30th, 2013. The databases searched are: EBSCOhost, Google scholar, Informit among many others.Inclusion and exclusion criteria were...
Evidence suggests that Australia mandatory detention policy is associated with mental illness among asylum seekers in both onshore facilities and comm...
