The book looks at refugee and asylum policies of Australia, Canada
and New Zealand in light of current debates on globalisation and
citizenship. The resettlement of refugees was a by product of the
Cold War, coupled with a quest on to boost populations and to
fulfil labour shortages. The pressures of global restructuring have
resulted in a reformulation of refugee policies. The once
humanitarian responses have been converted into policies of
containment, with increased controls to prevent the arrival of
asylum seekers. Measures imposed have resulted in barriers for
asylum seekers and exclusion by nation states by reference to
national sovereignty and security. The authors stress that so
called 'illegal migration' is primarily related to the political
and economic structures across the world, primacy of transnational
capital. Border controls and interdiction measures are bound to
fail as they reinforce this divide.The authors call for the
entrenchment of rights firmly into the Refugee Convention as well
as the development of a new form of citizenship, where citizenship
and belonging is not embedded in a single nation.
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