Not quite Australia : asylum seekers on an exceptional island

Linda Briskman, Michelle Dimasi

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on Australia’s occupation of Christmas Island, an Indian Ocean territory of Australia, which is located 300 kilometres south of Java and 2,600 kilometres northwest of Perth, Western Australia. Here, asylum seekers of today await the sealing of their fate. For many Christmas Islanders the incarceration of the asylum seeker represents a continuum of how the island has always been a place of institutionalised exclusion and disenfranchisement. The essay incorporates interviews with asylum seekers and Christmas Islanders that took place in 2009.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEnter at Own Risk?: Australia’s Population Questions for the 21st Century
EditorsSuvendrini Perera, Graham Seal, Sue Summers
Place of PublicationPerth, W.A.
PublisherBlack Swan Press
Pages141-159
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9780980631357
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Australia
  • asylum seekers
  • mandatory detention
  • Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
  • government policy
  • border security

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