{"id":45787,"date":"2022-06-26T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jun\/26\/screened-out-before-arrival-questions-over-legality-of-australias-at-sea-asylum-seeker-rulings"},"modified":"2022-06-26T05:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:00:25","slug":"exploited-in-a-crisis-why-are-sri-lankans-getting-on-boats-bound-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45787","title":{"rendered":"Exploited in a crisis: why are Sri Lankans getting on boats bound for Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor and vulnerable people fleeing Sri Lanka are being met by Australian boat turnbacks and \u2018enhanced assessments\u2019 that may breach international law<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI thought if I travelled to Australia, I could earn more money and lead a better life,\u201d Jayan* says from his modest home, in a coastal village in the north of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>A fisherman by trade and a member of Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil ethnic minority, Jayan is familiar with boats and was asked to fix the ageing vessel that was to take him to Australia, alongside a desperate handful of men, women and children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jun\/26\/screened-out-before-arrival-questions-over-legality-of-australias-at-sea-asylum-seeker-rulings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor and vulnerable people fleeing Sri Lanka are being met by Australian boat turnbacks and \u2018enhanced assessments\u2019 that may breach international lawGet our free news app; get our morning email briefing\u201cI thought if I travelled to Australia, I could ear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,388,324,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45788,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45787\/revisions\/45788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}