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Title

Providing a ‘Home for the Oppressed’?: Australian responses to refugees from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s

Author(s)

Neumann, Klaus

Abstract

The government and the Department of Immigration have repeatedly claimed that Australia's responses to refugees were generous in the past and continue to be generous in the present, and suggested that generosity can be measured numerically. Many refugee advocacy groups have repeatedly implied that Australia's responses to refugees in the past were generous, and that the current policies towards refugees and asylum seekers represent an aberration. They have also pointed out that refugees make good immigrants and that they have made a huge contribution to Australia.

Publication type

Seminar, speech or other presentation

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Institute for Social Research

Source

Public lecture sponsored by the National Archives of Australia and the Institute for Social Research (Swinburne University of Technology), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 July 2002

Publication year

2002

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