Border crimes : Australia's war on illicit migrants / Michael Grewcock
- Bib ID:
- 4738089
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Grewcock, Michael
- Description:
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- Sydney, N.S.W. : Institute of Criminology Press, c2009
- Sydney, N.S.W. Institute of Criminology, 2009
- ©2009
- ii, 351 p. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780975196793
- 0975196790
- Series:
- Institute of Criminology monograph series ; 29
- Summary:
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In this powerful and compelling book, Mike Grewcock eloquently exposes the organised criminal abuses and violence perpetrated by states against one of the world's most vulnerable populations. Through the lens of a state crime framework and with conceptual rigour he traces the political and historical antecedents of Australia's shameful asylum policy and practice.
- Full contents:
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- Chapter 1. Border policing, criminology and state crime
- Chapter 2. Forced migration, refugees and the state
- Chapter 3. From white Australia to multiculturalism: exclusion, hegemony and unauthorised migrants
- Chapter 4. State of denial: the creation of the illegitimate refugee
- Chapter 5. Declaring war in the Pacific
- Chapter 6. A system of abuse: the Australian gulag
- Chapter 7. State crime and the ideologies of exclusion.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Refugees -- Crimes against -- Australia
- Political crimes and offences -- Australia
- Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- Australia
- Illegal aliens -- Crimes against -- Australia
- Refugees -- Government policy -- Australia
- Political crimes and offenses -- Australia
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
- Immigration policy
- Refugees
- Human rights violations
- Immigration detention centres
- Pacific Solution
- Illegal immigrants
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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