Lives in Limbo Voices of Refugees Under Temporary Protection
by Leach, MichaelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher(s): University of New South Wales Press
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Summary
"Lives in Limbo contains the words of 35 recognised refugees languishing in Australia on temporary protection visas. But it is not merely a succession of stories. It locates these experiences solidly within the historical, political and legal context in which they are endured."--BOOK JACKET.
Author Biography
Fethi Mansouri is a Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights at Deakin University. Michael Leach is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University.
Table of Contents
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | vi | ||
| INTRODUCTION Lives in limbo: refugees under temporary protection in Australia | 1 | (12) | |
| CHAPTER 1 The 'push factor': experiences of persecution | 13 | (20) | |
| CHAPTER 2 No border to protect me: the asylum journey | 33 | (27) | |
| CHAPTER 3 Behind the wire: experiences of detention | 60 | (22) | |
| CHAPTER 4 Settling in the shadow of the TPV | 82 | (16) | |
| CHAPTER 5 The hope deficit: psychological impacts of the TPV | 98 | (14) | |
| CHAPTER 6 'Strange words': refugees respond to media representations | 112 | (13) | |
| CONCLUSION Lives in Limbo: refugees and the threat of forced repatriation | 125 | (17) | |
| POSTSCRIPT | 142 | (2) | |
| NOTES | 144 | (15) | |
| INDEX | 159 |
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