Calais and Nauru. Two places in the world that could not be further from each other, both in distance and culture. However, there is one dark similarity that mirrors these two distinctly different regions; the astonishing human dumping ground that their governments have created within them. Dumping grounds we commonly refer to as refugee camps.
READ MOREAustralia’s refugee policy has been a festering wound for the past three years. On August 10th the wound exploded when The Guardian revealed 2,100 reported incidents of the offshore detention centre in Nauru. Most of the attention has been rightly devoted to the abuses themselves. Yet, at the same time it occludes a more widespread, global problem: the risks of outsourcing.
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