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
Indifference and hostility toward outsidersBetween 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
The racialisation of Muslim migrants in contemporary AustraliaWaging 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
Rethinking international governance arrangements for refugeesConclusion