Does history matter? : making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand / edited by Klaus Newmann and Gwenda Tavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tavan, Gwenda, author.

Contributor:

Neumann, Klaus, 1958- editor.

Tavan, Gwenda, editor.

Series:

Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Australia.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--New Zealand.

Refugees--Government policy--Australia.

Refugees.

Refugees--Government policy--New Zealand.

Australia--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Australia.

New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2009

Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU E Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume of essays represents the first systematic attempt to explore the use of the past in the making of citizenship and immigration policy in Australia and New Zealand. Focussing on immigration and citizenship policy in Australia and New Zealand, the contributions to this volume explore how history and memory are implicated in policy making and political debate, and what processes of remembering and forgetting are utilised by political leaders when formulating and defending policy decisions. They remind us that a nuanced understanding of the past is fundamental to managing the politics and practicalities of immigration and citizenship in the early 21st century.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 12, 2016).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781921536946

1921536942

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459079