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Title: Border control in Australia
Author(s): Mares, Peter
Abstract: For several years, 'Border Security' has rated among the top programmes on Australian television. The prime-time 'docu-drama' takes a fly-on-the-wall look at the operations of Australia's immigration and customs officials. It films in airport arrival halls and on coastal surveillance vessels. The success of 'Border Security' might seem odd in a country that has few undocumented migrants and low levels of unregulated border crossings, but its popularity is testament to a deeply entrenched Australian view that migration is acceptable as long as it is an orderly process tightly controlled by government.
Publication type: Book chapter
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Source: Immigration and the financial crisis: the United States and Australia compared / John Higley, John Nieuwenhuysen and Stine Neerup (eds.), Chapter 5, pp. 74-91
Publication year: 2011
Keyword(s): Australia; Border control; Border Security; Customs; Immigration officials; Migration policy; Reality television; Television programs
Publisher: Edward Elgar
ISBN: 9781849809917, 1849809917
Publisher URL: http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14295
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