The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organization with a mission to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people. JRS undertakes services at national and regional levels with the support of an international office in Rome.
JRS Australia implements the mission of JRS within the Australian context through:
- Support and accompaniment of asylum seekers at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney’s west.
- Support and accompaniment of asylum seekers in the community through the Shelter Project which houses and supports asylum seekers in the community who are income ineligible
- Research into forced displacement in the Pacific in order to advise government and NGOs on policy and program responses in this area.
- Research and Advocacy for just policy in the asylum and refugee area within Australia
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