Does history matter? : making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand /

"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...

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Other Authors: Neumann, Klaus, 1958-, Tavan, Gwenda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2009.
Series:ANZSOG (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Gone with hardly a trace: deportees in immigration policy / Glenn Nicholls
  • The unfinished business of Indigenous citizenship in Australia and New Zealand / Roderic Pitty
  • Oblivious to the obvious? Australian asylum-seeker policies and the use of the past / Klaus Neumann
  • 'A modern-day concentration camp': using history to make sense of Australian immigration detention centres / Amy Nethery
  • Refugees between pasts and politics: sovereignty and memory in the Tampa crisis / J. Olaf Kleist
  • Looking back and glancing sideways: refugee policy and multicultural nation-building in New Zealand / Ann Beaglehole
  • Testing times: the problem of 'history' in the Howard Government's Australian citizenship test / Gwenda Tavan
  • Afterword / Klaus Neumann.