Humanitarian & Disaster Assistance

For those displaced across borders, there is nothing beyond general immigration and human rights law.

[The Australian Senate] bill proposes really extraordinary powers to intercept, detain and push people back at sea, and in fact, to send them to countries with which Australia may have absolutely no agreement, which really raises concerning questions about our respect for the sovereignty of other countries.

[Regarding refugee policy] the tendency [in Asia] is to look inward, preserve domestic stability and improve domestic welfare, especially given that many Asian nations, including South Korea, still have weak welfare systems compared to the West - even though they are wealthy and highly developed.

This would be financially and logistically impossible to manage should there be a migration crisis across the 38th parallel and/or unification.

[Refugee] groups are largely isolated from Korean society and associated with the migrant worker class. But the migrant workers have their own issues and problems and they have separate legal standing and labor policies that govern their stay [in South Korea].