1. 'I was like a camera, I remember everything' -- 1. Border policing, criminology and state crime -- 2. Forced migration, refugees and the state -- 3. From white Australia to multiculturalism: exclusion, hegemony and unauthorised migrants -- 4. State of denial: the creation of the illegitimate refugee -- 5. Declaring war in the Pacific -- 6. A system of abuse: the Australian gulag -- 7. State crime and the ideologies of exclusion -- Epilogue: A new beginning?
Summary
In this powerful and compelling book, Mike Grewcock eloquently exposes the organised criminal abuses and violence perpetrated by states against one of the world's most vulnerable populations. Through the lens of a state crime framework and with conceptual rigour he traces the political and historical antecedents of Australia's shameful asylum policy and practice
