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Author Lamey, Andy.

Title Frontier justice : the global refugee crisis and what to do about it / Andy Lamey
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2011

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 MELB  KC 205 Lam/Fjt  AVAILABLE
Description 406 pages : maps ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents 1. The philosopher in exile -- 2. American Lavalas -- 3. A floating Berlin Wall -- 4. The fatal shore -- 5. Raising the castle -- 6. An asylum made of thoughts -- 7. The right to have rights -- 8. The legend of Ahmed Ressam -- 9. In the tracks of leviathan -- Postscript: the offshore processing debate
Summary Frontier Justice is a gripping exploration of the world-wide refugee crisis. Andy Lamey presents the story behind the radical increase in the global number of asylum-seekers, set within the historical and philosophical context in which the ideas of asylum originated and evolved
Analysis Australian
Civil & human rights
Refugees
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-394) and index
Subject Asylum, Right of.
Law and globalization.
Human rights.
Political refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Political refugees -- Australia.
Political refugees.
Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Refugees -- Civil rights.
Refugees.
ISBN 9780702239311 (paperback)
Other Titles Global refugee crisis and what to do about it