Acts of cruelty : Australian immigration laws and experiences of people seeking protection after arriving by plane
Crowe, Aileen2022
Book
This book documents the complex, drawn out and harsh legal procedures and historically racist and toxic immigration culture that await people arriving by plane and subsequently seeking refugee status in Australia. This story has hitherto been under-represented because of the more notorious offshore detention policies of successive Australian governments for people arriving by boat. In this book, research by Dr Aileen Crowe, a Franciscan nun and refugee advocate, provides both detailed insight into the lived experiences of such would-be migrants and the tortuous tangle of often harsh, punitive immigration processes and laws which they must navigate at their peril. The author's support and advocacy role brings her close to individuals and families attempting to escape numerous forms of persecution in their own countries as they confront further trauma in seeking Australia's protection. The book is an important and challenging document for potential migrants and asylum seekers, politicians, lawyers, students of international relations, and the general public internationally.
Main title:
Acts of cruelty : Australian immigration laws and experiences of people seeking protection after arriving by plane / Aileen Crowe ; foreword by Michael Kirby.
Author:
Crowe, Aileen, authorKirby, M. D. (Michael Donald), 1939-, writer of foreword
Edition:
First Palaver edition.
Imprint:
Armadale, Victoria : Palaver, [2022]©2022.
Collation:
229 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780645588101 (paperback)
Dewey class:
342.94083
Language:
English
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BRN:
1872061