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Refugee Journeys : Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760464196
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Refugee JourneysDDC classification:
  • 362.87
LOC classification:
  • HV640.4.A78 R418 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Refugee journeys -- Part I: Labelling refugees -- 1. Australian responses to refugee journeys: Matters of perspective and context -- 2. Once a refugee, always a refugee? The haunting of the refugee label in resettlement -- 3. 'His happy go lucky attitude is infectious': Australian imaginings of unaccompanied child refugees, 1970s-1980s -- 4. 'Foreign infiltration' vs 'immigration country': The asylum debate in Germany -- Part II: Flashpoints in Australian refugee history -- 5. The other Asian refugees in the 1970s: Australian responses to the Bangladeshi refugee crisis in 1971 -- 6. Race to the bottom: Constructions of asylum seekers in Australian federal election campaigns, 1977-2013 -- 7. Behind the wire: An oral history project about immigration detention -- Part III: Understanding refugee histories and futures -- 8. From Dahmarda to Dandenong via Denpassar: Hazara stories of settlement, success and separation -- 9. Step by step: The insidious evolution of Australia's asylum seeker regime since 1992 -- 10. Uses and abuses of refugee histories -- Epilogue -- Selected bibliography -- _gjdgxs.
Summary: Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Refugee journeys -- Part I: Labelling refugees -- 1. Australian responses to refugee journeys: Matters of perspective and context -- 2. Once a refugee, always a refugee? The haunting of the refugee label in resettlement -- 3. 'His happy go lucky attitude is infectious': Australian imaginings of unaccompanied child refugees, 1970s-1980s -- 4. 'Foreign infiltration' vs 'immigration country': The asylum debate in Germany -- Part II: Flashpoints in Australian refugee history -- 5. The other Asian refugees in the 1970s: Australian responses to the Bangladeshi refugee crisis in 1971 -- 6. Race to the bottom: Constructions of asylum seekers in Australian federal election campaigns, 1977-2013 -- 7. Behind the wire: An oral history project about immigration detention -- Part III: Understanding refugee histories and futures -- 8. From Dahmarda to Dandenong via Denpassar: Hazara stories of settlement, success and separation -- 9. Step by step: The insidious evolution of Australia's asylum seeker regime since 1992 -- 10. Uses and abuses of refugee histories -- Epilogue -- Selected bibliography -- _gjdgxs.

Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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