TY - JOUR
T1 - Against representation
AU - Lentin, Alana
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - I was finishing How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Media Diversity Australia founder Antoinette Lattouf on the evening of 14 June. That was when the news came in that the UK government's first deportation flight to Rwanda had been halted by a powerful combination of direct action by people detained in Colnbrook detention centre, members of Stop Deportation groups, lawyers, and ordinary protestors. On that day, 130 people dubbed 'illegal entrants' were due to board the flight. In the end, not a soul left and the plane stayed on the tarmac. The £120m UK-Rwanda deal is a direct borrowing from Australia's intentionally cruel, ongoing, but mainly forgotten policy of offshore detention which has killed 14 people and irreversibly injured countless more in immeasurable ways.
AB - I was finishing How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Media Diversity Australia founder Antoinette Lattouf on the evening of 14 June. That was when the news came in that the UK government's first deportation flight to Rwanda had been halted by a powerful combination of direct action by people detained in Colnbrook detention centre, members of Stop Deportation groups, lawyers, and ordinary protestors. On that day, 130 people dubbed 'illegal entrants' were due to board the flight. In the end, not a soul left and the plane stayed on the tarmac. The £120m UK-Rwanda deal is a direct borrowing from Australia's intentionally cruel, ongoing, but mainly forgotten policy of offshore detention which has killed 14 people and irreversibly injured countless more in immeasurable ways.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:73254
UR - https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/lattouf-how-to-lose-friends-and-influence-white-people/
M3 - Article
SN - 2201-8735
VL - July 25, 2022
JO - Sydney Review of Books
JF - Sydney Review of Books
ER -