Border crimes : Australia's war on illicit migrants

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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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Meticulously research and elegantly written, Border Crimes argues that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers as 'illegal immigrants' should itself be regarded as criminal - as state crime. Mike Grewcock marshals the evidence irrefutably; after reading his account, 'boat people' will never again appear as suspected illegal entrants. Professor Scott Poynting, Manchester Metropolitan University 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.Refreshingly this book is not only about unconscionable crimes committed by states it also engages with resistance and locates the possibility of social justice firmly within the domain of civil society. Professor Penny Green, Kings College London