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That sinking feeling : asylum seekers and the search for the lost Indonesian solution / / Paul Toohey



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Autore: Toohey Paul Visualizza persona
Titolo: That sinking feeling : asylum seekers and the search for the lost Indonesian solution / / Paul Toohey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Collingwood, Australia : , : Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Media Pty Ltd., , [2014]
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
Disciplina: 325.210994
Soggetto topico: Political refugees - Government policy - Australia
Asylum, Right of - Australia
Soggetto geografico: Australia Emigration and immigration
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front cover; QUARTERLY ESSAY 53; Contents; Ali Reza and the Twenty Asylum Seekers; Legal or Illegal, a Boat is a Boat; Waiting for Australia; Down Mexico Way; Little Aussie Migrant; The Smuggling Coast; A Boat Goes Down; The Boats Slow Up; The Mislaid Indonesian Solution; Sending Them Back; Found in Translation: Correspondence; Rowan Callick; Brian Nelson; Julie Rose; John Minford; Response to Correspondence: Linda Jaivin; Contributors; Copyright; Subscribe
Sommario/riassunto: In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost?In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, looks closely at people- smugglers in action, and witnesses the aftermath of a sinking at sea.Toohey also examines Australian attitudes to refugees, and what politicians have made of them. He assesses the use of secrecy and the term "illegals." Tracing the path that led to the PNG Solution, he cons
Titolo autorizzato: That sinking feeling  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-922231-52-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787121803321
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Serie: Quarterly Essay