| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Canberra, ACT, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , [2009]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (172 pages)
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| Disciplina |
323.63
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| Collana |
Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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| Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Australia
Citizenship - New Zealand
Refugees - Government policy - Australia
Refugees - Government policy - New Zealand
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| ISBN |
1-921536-94-2
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Table of Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; 1. Gone with hardly a trace: deportees in immigration policy; Activism against deportation by Pacific Islanders; Immigration control and deportation; The long reach of the deportation power in Australian law; Mandatory deportation and removal; Conclusion; 2. The unfinished business of Indigenous citizenship in Australia and New Zealand; Crisis management and political distortion of the past; Indigenous citizenship as unfinished business; Australia turns a new page: the apology
Australia spurns a new page: the interventionThe mythology of 'nationhood' in New Zealand; Conclusion: the politics of history in comparative perspective; 3. Oblivious to the obvious? Australian asylum-seeker policies and the use of the past; 'Boat people' (I); 'Boat people' (II); Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 4. 'A modern-day concentration camp': using history to make sense of Australian immigration detention centres; The policy and practice of immigration detention; Using history to make sense of immigration detention centres; Aboriginal reserves; Quarantine stations
Enemy-alien internment campsConclusion; Acknowledgments; 5. Refugees between pasts and politics: sovereignty and memory in the Tampa crisis; The old and the new of the Tampa crisis; Sovereignty and refugees (I); Sovereignty and memories (I); Sovereignty and memories (II); Sovereignty and refugees (II); Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 6. Looking back and glancing sideways: refugee policy and multicultural nation-building in New Zealand; New Zealand's 'fine record of humanitarian assistance'; 'We are all immigrants'; Apologising for the past; Conclusion; Acknowledgments
7. Testing times: the problem of 'history' in the Howard Government's Australian citizenship testThe Howard reforms: return to a cultural-normative model of citizenship; The citizenship test as a form of collective memory making (and forgetting); Historical analogies: citizenship policy in 'assimilationist Australia'; Policy constraints and the political uses of immigration history; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Afterword; Select bibliography
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141792003321 |
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