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Author Barnett, Tracey, author

Title The quiet war on asylum / Tracey Barnett
Published Wellington, New Zealand : BWB Texts, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (72 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; Brief Definitions; Blindness on a Hill; The Man Who Couldn't Get Angry; The Algorithm of Bad Options; Dirtied Definitions; Playing By the Rules, Then Ignoring Them; Australia's Fair Dinkum Intolerance; Drowning in Deadly Pacific Policy; New Zealand: Getting It Right and Pretending It's Right; In Lockstep with Lockdown?; Fighting Against the New Normal; Invisible Mending; Endnotes; Introducing BWB Texts; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Copyright and Publisher Information
Summary Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern history suddenly legislate for mass detention? Columnist Tracey Barnett questions this controversial new policy and its effect on asylum seekers
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 30, 2014)
Subject Refugees -- New Zealand
Refugees -- Government policy.
Refugees.
Refugees -- Government policy.
New Zealand.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781927247983
1927247985