The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia: Asylum out of reach

by Antje Missbach

This book offers an ethnographically informed critique of the hyper-politicised debate on the facilitation of irregularised migration for people seeking asylum between Indonesia and Australia. While state authorities decry such facilitation as "people smuggling" and push for its criminalisation, the book's focal points are the need for unsanctioned passages for people seeking asylum and the detrimental consequences of the criminalisation of "people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032074779
• ISBN13: 9781032074771
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"