Check Swinburne's subscriptions for full text availabilitySearch Swinburne Research Bank
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/510
- Title
- Refuge Australia: Australia's humanitarian record
- Author(s)
- Neumann, Klaus
- Abstract
- 'Refuge Australia' debunks several commonly held assumptions about Australia's humanitarian record. It demonstrates that Australian responses to various international refugee crises from the 1930s to the early 1970s were informed by self-interest rather than humanitarian concerns. It shows that Australia's support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the 1951 Refugees Convention was often at best half-hearted.
- Publication type
- Book
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- Briefings series
- Publication year
- 2004
- Keyword(s)
- 20th century history; Australia; Asylum policy; Foreign policy; Government policy; Immigration; Migration policy; Refugees; Resettlement; Right of asylum
- Publisher
- UNSW Press
- ISBN
- 9780868407111, 0868407119
- Publisher URL
- http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/0868407119.htm
- Additional information
- This book was awarded the 2004 Human Rights Award for Non Fiction, presented by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. For more details and judges' remarks, see: http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/0868407119.htm.
- Peer reviewed
