Despair as a Governing Strategy: Australia and the Offshore Processing of Asylum-Seekers on Nauru

Fleay, Caroline; Hoffman, S.

doi:10.1093/rsq/hdu004

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Despair as a Governing Strategy: Australia and the Offshore Processing of Asylum-Seekers on Nauru

Published in Refugee Survey Quarterly • Mar 24, 2014

Authors:

Caroline Fleay

S. Hoffman

Abstract

As part of its efforts to deter the arrival of asylum-seekers by boat to Australia in 2001, Prime Minister John Howard’s Coalition Government established the offshore processing of refugee claims. Known as the Pacific Solution, this policy included an agreement with Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manu...

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Refugee

Governmentality

Government (linguistics)

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