Limited Resettlement and Ongoing Uncertainty: responses to and experiences of people seeking asylum in Australia and Indonesia
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Caroline Fleay; Lisa Hartley
- Source
- Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2016)
- Subject
- Refugees
Asylum seekers
human rights
Operation Sovereign Borders
policy
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1837-5391
In the wake of the Coalition Government’s narrow victory in the first Australian election since the adoption of policies known as Operation Sovereign Borders, this special edition of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies focuses its attention on the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers . It explores some of the experiences of people both in Australia and Indonesia who are seeking a life of safety, as well as the responses of civil society groups and governments, following the commencement of policies that have vastly reduced the opportunities for refugee resettlement in Australia.