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Informationen zum Autor James Jupp is a visiting scholar in the School of Demography, Australian National University. Educated in the UK, Jupp moved to Australia after graduation. His doctoral dissertation has been published as Sri Lanka: Third World Democracy (1978). Jupp is the author of several books and articles, the editor of three encyclopaedias and the co-editor of six books. Klappentext An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the British and Australian governments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I; 1. Prisons in the Pacific, 1788-1850; 2. The British Inheritance; 3. White Australia and the Golden Age; 4. Peace, Order and Good Government; 5. Indigenous Australia and the South Pacific; 6. Rural Settlers, the Irish and the Chinese; 7. Radicals and Rebels; 8. Communists and their Allies; 9. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization; 10. Refugees before the UN Convention and Enemy Aliens; 11. Crime, Corruption and Terrorism; 12. The Multicultural Era; 13. Islam as the New Threat; Part II; 14. The Post-War Promise Ends; 15. Refugees and War; 16. The United Nations and Refugees; 17. Mandatory Detention; 18. 'Stop the Boats'; 19. Finding a Decent Dumping Ground; 20. History as Tragedy and Farce; 21. Facing the Real World; 22. Cohesion and Humanity; 23. From Nation-Building to Border Protection; 24. An Unstable World; Chronology; References; Index.
