Border crimes : Australia's war on illicit migrants
by
 
Grewcock, Michael.

Title
: 
Border crimes : Australia's war on illicit migrants

Author
: 
Grewcock, Michael.

ISBN
: 
9780975196793

Personal Author
: 
Grewcock, Michael.

Publication Information
: 
Sydney, N.S.W. : Institute of Criminology Press, c2009.

Physical Description
: 
ii, 351 p. ; 21 cm.

Series
: 
Sydney Institue of Criminology series ; 29
 
Institute of Criminology monograph series ; 29.

Contents
: 
Chapter 1. Border policing -- 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

Abstract
: 
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.

Subject Term
: 
Illegal aliens -- Government policy -- Australia.
 
Illegal aliens -- Crimes against -- Australia.
 
Refugees -- Government policy -- Australia.
 
Political crimes and offenses -- Australia.


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