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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786423903321

Autore

Barnett Tracey

Titolo

The quiet war on asylum / / Tracey Barnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wellington, New Zealand : , : BWB Texts, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-927247-98-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (114 p.)

Collana

BWB Texts The quiet war on asylum

Disciplina

362.87

Soggetti

Refugees - New Zealand

Refugees - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Brief Definitions; Blindness on a Hill; The Man Who Couldn't Get Angry; The Algorithm of Bad Options; Dirtied Definitions; Playing By the Rules, Then Ignoring Them; Australia's Fair Dinkum Intolerance; Drowning in Deadly Pacific Policy; New Zealand: Getting It Right and Pretending It's Right; In Lockstep with Lockdown?; Fighting Against the New Normal; Invisible Mending; Endnotes; Introducing BWB Texts; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Copyright and Publisher Information

Sommario/riassunto

Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern history suddenly legislate for mass detention? Columnist Tracey Barnett questions this controversial new policy and its effect on asylum seekers.