Despair as a Governing Strategy: Australia and the Offshore Processing of Asylum-Seekers on Nauru

As part of its efforts to deter the arrival of asylum-seekers by boat to Australia in2001, Prime Minister John Howard’s Coalition Government established the offshore processing of refugee claims. Known as the Pacific Solution, this policy included an agreement with Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fleay, Caroline, Hoffman, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38745