Thursday, January 30, 2020

Shall truth get asylum? (Paper published 2007)

These are quotes from "Shall Truth Get Asylum".

Foreword
"In August I hidden first time! because I didn't know anyone lived in a room in a school. in the days worked illegally in an office where one man like 50 gave me the job. Salary, times were entire days and evenings and worst was that he talked sex wi me.... I met another man who gave me a temporary job in a pet store I pretended that didn't get rejected but as soon knew I was negative, he threatened that I had to go if I didn't make sex with him. I have been other places and it is always the same. I got sick that I been alone home or if I go out everyone can do what they want to me, I can only cry when I alone. I live in a cellar now. Need someone who can stop this or can get me into school again. please help me!" (Save the Children Sweden 2007: 19) 

Introduction 
I would like to introduce this paper by discussing a few different applications of the question raised in the title of the paper shall truth get asylum? This paper is about the research function in the context of sustainability, and it is a case study of the research function in defending the sustainability for a specific group, namely children in Sweden without legal migration documentation, many of whom finding themselves in this situation because of an asylum seeking process in Sweden that many regard as a failure, or worse, a programmatic attempt to avoid Sweden's responsibilities under international conventions including the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the UN Convention against Torture....

For the entire paper, please see the PDF via this Google Drive link.