What’s with all of the arabic in that flyer?
On a different note, if I, as an english speaking American, with skills useful to you and your fellow Australians, washes up on shore for some odd reason (wink-wink), can I claim refugee status?
Can I perhaps claim status as being a refugee from Obamistan, or maybe texamexiforniastan?
I promise I won’t take up much room, and I already live in the high desert, so the outback would be just like home.
Australia distributes these flyers around the world in all of the countries that tend to produce 'asylum seekers' (whether they are genuine refugees or not). So they are localised for local languages. That particular one was the best example I could find online to share, and happens to be one that is distributed in Pakistan, so it has the common languages of Pakistan repeating the same information as is in English at the top.
On a different note, if I, as an english speaking American, with skills useful to you and your fellow Australians, washes up on shore for some odd reason (wink-wink), can I claim refugee status?
Quite seriously, no. If somebody tries to come here illegally, they will not be allowed to stay. Even if they have useful skills.
We do have programs that allow skilled migration by those who have skills we want, but those people have to follow the right processes.
Australia is a nation of immigrants - tens of thousands of people immigrate to Australia each year and if they follow our rules, they are welcome. But they have to follow our rules.
And that is what this is about. The distinction between legal immigration and illegal.
It's not easy to immigrate to Australia - just as it isn't easy to immigrate to the US. We don't just let anybody in. We let those in with the skills we want and need, and we do consider how well they will integrate (Americans would generally be assumed to integrate quite easily because of a similar culture and language). We also do accept some genuine refugees - but they have to have followed the rules concerning seeking asylum in those cases.