Professor Fethi Mansouri holds UNESCO Chair in comparative research on 'Cultural Diversity and Social Justice' and an Alfred Deakin Research Chair in migration and intercultural studies. He is also the founding director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia.

Chapter 1: Context, contentions, and thematic scope

Global perspectives on asylum seekers and refugees

The ethical, political and policy dilemmas affecting refugees

Chapter 2: The globalisation of restrictive refugee policies

Human mobility and the contradictions of globalisation

The globalisation of restrictive policies

Between cosmopolitan claims and a growing 'citizenship gap'

Selectivity in Western humanitarianism

COVID-19's impacts on temporary visa holders in Australia

Chapter 3: The transnational dimensions of forced migration

States and the transnational practices of asylum seekers

Accounting for the transnational practices of asylum seekers

The globalisation of restrictions and the hardening of border controls

A securitised agenda driving a 'new exclusionary internationalism'

Chapter 4: Australia's hard-line approach to asylum seekers

The global context for asylum governance

Fault lines: Australia's record on asylum seeker policies

The hardening of policies during the Howard/Hanson conservative era

TPVs as a punitive, diluted form of protection

Detention as a deterrence strategy

Temporary protection in the international context

Chapter 5: Public attitudes towards Muslim asylum seekers in Australia

Contemporary public attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees

Waging a war of words on Muslim asylum seekers and refugees

Political discourse justifying inhumane policies

A Muslim motif? Exploring the emergence of contemporary tropes

Chapter 6: The states' approach to temporary protection-Destitution, dehumanisation and disconnection

TPV as a condemnation to material deprivation

The mental scars and emotional burden of life in limbo

Inter-group solidarity and cross-cultural connections

Chapter 7: Conclusion-Rethinking asylum policies in a changing world

Temporary protection and the complexity of state responses to asylum seekers

Temporary protection in a rapidly changing world

Conclusion