Across The Seas. Australia's Response To Refugees. A History

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Black Inc
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 358 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Today, Australias response to asylum-seeking boat people is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees Have our past responses been motivated by humanitarian concerns or economic self-interest Is the influx of boat people over the last fifteen years really unprecedented In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation. He places the Australian story in the context of global refugee movements, and international responses to them. Neumann examines many case studies, including the resettlement of displaced persons from European refugee camps in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the panic generated by the arrival of Vietnamese asylum seekers during the 1977 federal election campaign. By exploring the ways in which politicians have approached asylum-seeker issues in the past, Neumann aims to inspire more creative thinking about current refugee and asylum-seeker policy. Klaus Neumann is a historian based at Swinburne Universitys Institute for Social Research. His 2006 book In the Interest of National Security won the John and Patricia Ward History Prize, while his Refuge Australias Humanitarian Record (2004) won the Australian Human Rights Commissions 2004 Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction.

ISBN: 9781863957359