Abstract
Since the Tampa incident in 2001, Christmas Island has been a central site where Australia’s border protection and asylum seeker policies are visible This article takes four key events over a ten year period to track the impact on Christmas Islanders and on the Islanders’ changing attitudes towards asylum seekers, detention and federal government policies. The views of Christmas Islanders are not often heard in public discourse about detention on the island. This article seeks to provide a platform for a snapshot of views and to call for a greater role for Islanders in decisions that profoundly affect their lives.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 99-115 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Shima: the international journal of research into island cultures |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Open Access - Access Right Statement
The journal is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Keywords
- Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
- Tampa (ship)
- asylum seekers
- attitudes
- communities