‘I Feel Like a Beggar’: Asylum Seekers Living in the Australian Community Without the Right to Work

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‘I Feel Like a Beggar’: Asylum Seekers Living in the Australian Community Without the Right to Work

While numbers of asylum seekers received by Australia are small compared to global figures, a range of deterrence measures have been implemented in response to increasing numbers arriving by boat in recent years. One of the more recent measures was denying asylum seekers who arrived by boat after 13...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Fleay, Caroline, Hartley, Lisa
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Kluwer Academic Publishers 2016
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22942

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