Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa
Christmas Island is the site where Australia’s mandatory immigration detention policies are implemented. Protests by Christmas Islanders against the Australian government’s treatment of asylum seekers have surfaced since boatpeople began arriving in 1992 and reached a pinnacle during the Tampa affai...
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2010
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| author | Dimasi, M. Briskman, Linda |
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| description | Christmas Island is the site where Australia’s mandatory immigration detention policies are implemented. Protests by Christmas Islanders against the Australian government’s treatment of asylum seekers have surfaced since boatpeople began arriving in 1992 and reached a pinnacle during the Tampa affair. Based on interviews conducted in 2009 with island residents and archival material, the paper explores Christmas Islanders’ responses before and during the Tampa affair through the notion of hospitality that was disrupted when a state of emergency removed control of both ethical responsibility and island sovereignty. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-435182017-09-13T16:00:11Z Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa Dimasi, M. Briskman, Linda Christmas Island protest asylum seekers Christmas Island is the site where Australia’s mandatory immigration detention policies are implemented. Protests by Christmas Islanders against the Australian government’s treatment of asylum seekers have surfaced since boatpeople began arriving in 1992 and reached a pinnacle during the Tampa affair. Based on interviews conducted in 2009 with island residents and archival material, the paper explores Christmas Islanders’ responses before and during the Tampa affair through the notion of hospitality that was disrupted when a state of emergency removed control of both ethical responsibility and island sovereignty. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43518 10.1093/jrs/feq015 Oxford University Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | Christmas Island protest asylum seekers Dimasi, M. Briskman, Linda Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa |
| title | Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa |
| title_full | Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa |
| title_fullStr | Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa |
| title_short | Let Them Land: Christmas Islander Responses to Tampa |
| title_sort | let them land: christmas islander responses to tampa |
| topic | Christmas Island protest asylum seekers |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43518 |