New 2019 Outline for Sharing Time: Families Are Forever (15691)
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Hullo Weblog. Dovetailing with last calendar week's blog entry about how Nippon'south new "open door" visa programs violate bones man rights, hither'due south the old classic "closed door" policies aimed to punish bureaucratic transgressions past perpetually detaining people under conditions that don't fall under standards for sufficient monitoring (because technically, they're not "prisons"). Policywise, they're meant to be a deterrent — part of a split judicial track for foreigners in Japan with fewer human rights (full details on this in "Embedded Racism" Ch. 6). Separate and lethal. Specially in Ushiku.
Again, given how Japan'southward ethnostate policies are an inspiration for xenophobes and racial supremacists worldwide, I would argue that these longstanding inhumane "Gaijin Tanks" are a working model for the "concentration camps" (the political term of argue in the United states these days) for detainees along the American southern edge. Except politicians in Japan don't accept the cojones to call them anything but benign-sounding "detention centers" — after all, who in any position of power cares about the plight of foreigners in Japan?
And then what term is a more appropriate depiction for awareness-raising? Gaijin Gulags? Internment Camps? Captivity Chambers? Perpetual Penitentiaries? Detention Dungeons? This is a situation where the label matters and the proper language escapes. Debito Arudou Ph.D.
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Nigerian dies after hunger strike in Japan detention middle
REUTERS/Asahi Shimbun AJW, June 27, 2019, courtesy of DM.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201906270086.html
A Nigerian man died in a Japanese clearing detention center this week, an official said on Thursday, bringing to an end a hunger strike an activist grouping said was intended to protest his being held for more than than three years.
It was the 15th death since 2006 in a system widely criticized over medical standards, the monitoring of detainees and how guards respond to a medical emergency.
The man, in his 40s, died on Monday in the southern city of Nagasaki afterward he lost consciousness and was taken to hospital, said a detention eye official who declined to be identified.
He did non give a cause of expiry.
RINK, a group supporting detainees at the middle, told Reuters the Nigerian had been on hunger strike to protest his lengthy detention.
Another 27 foreigners are on hunger strike at a detention heart in Ushiku, northeast of Tokyo, said a carve up grouping supporting detainees at that facility.
Some of them have gone without food for 47 days, said Kimiko Tanaka, a spokeswoman for the grouping.
She said a 23-year-old Iranian human who sought asylum more than than two years ago has lost weight and is using a wheelchair.
Two other men at Ushiku have been detained for five years, she said.
"The reality of a lengthy detention is zippo but a human rights violation," Tanaka said.
An official at the national immigration agency confirmed at that place are hunger strikers at the Ushiku center, but he did not say how many. Authorities are providing medical care and trying to persuade them to eat, he added.
Immigration is a contentious issue in Nippon, where ethnic and cultural homogeneity are deeply rooted.
Japan held nigh 1,500 detainees every bit of June 2018, according to the latest public data, nearly half of them for more than six months.
Some 604 were asylum seekers whose applications were rejected, while the rest were held for diverse immigration infractions such every bit overstaying visas.
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