The quiet war on asylum / Tracey Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Tracey, author.

Series:

BWB Texts The quiet war on asylum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--New Zealand.

Refugees.

Refugees--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 p.)

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : BWB Texts, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern history suddenly legislate for mass detention? Columnist Tracey Barnett questions this controversial new policy and its effect on asylum seekers.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Brief Definitions; Blindness on a Hill; The Man Who Couldn't Get Angry; The Algorithm of Bad Options; Dirtied Definitions; Playing By the Rules, Then Ignoring Them; Australia's Fair Dinkum Intolerance; Drowning in Deadly Pacific Policy; New Zealand: Getting It Right and Pretending It's Right; In Lockstep with Lockdown?; Fighting Against the New Normal; Invisible Mending; Endnotes; Introducing BWB Texts; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Copyright and Publisher Information

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 30, 2014).

ISBN:

1-927247-98-5

OCLC:

882252549