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

• Autore: Toohey Paul
• 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
• ISBN: 1-922231-52-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787121803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Quarterly Essay