"What if No One Had Spoken out Against this Policy?" The Rise of Asylum Seeker and Refugeee Advocacy in Australia

"What if No One Had Spoken out Against this Policy?" The Rise of Asylum Seeker and Refugeee Advocacy in Australia

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This paper examines the rise of an asylum seeker and refugee advocacy movement in Australia in recent years. It situates this phenomenon within Alberto Melucci's understanding of social movements as variable and diffuse forms of social action involved in challenging the logic of a system. Follo...

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Main Author: Diane Gosden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2006-02-01
Series:PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Subjects:
asylum seekers
refugees
human rights advocacy
social movements
collective action
Australia
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/121
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Summary:This paper examines the rise of an asylum seeker and refugee advocacy movement in Australia in recent years. It situates this phenomenon within Alberto Melucci's understanding of social movements as variable and diffuse forms of social action involved in challenging the logic of a system. Following this theoretical framework, it explores the empirical features of this particular collective action, as well as the struggle to redefine the nature of the relationship between citizens of a sovereign state and 'the other' in the personage of asylum seekers and refugees.
ISSN:1449-2490

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