The displacement and consequential hosting of refugees and asylum seekers is a global hot topic right now. In Australia, as part of the lead-up to the 2016 federal election this July, Australia’s contention towards immigration policy is very much alive. With news headlines flooding in enticing questions about the strains refugees will put on Australian jobs, unemployment services such as Medicare, and the Australian culture as an entirety, activists believe that a different stance needs to be adopted by the Australian community. It’s easy to get lost in the political jargon, especially around election time, but one major distinction needs to be made between the definitions of ‘asylum seekers’ and ‘refugees’. According to the Refugee Council, these terms are not interchangeable. A refugee is a person outside of their country of origin who has been found to have valid fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, and is unable to seek protection from their country. Alternatively, an asylum seeker is a person seeking protection as …