Does History Matter? : Making And Debating Citizenship, Immigration And Refugee Policy In Australia And New Zealand

Table of Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 9
Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
1. Gone with hardly a trace: deportees in immigration policy......Page 27
Activism against deportation by Pacific Islanders......Page 28
Immigration control and deportation......Page 29
The long reach of the deportation power in Australian law......Page 31
Mandatory deportation and removal......Page 33
Conclusion......Page 37
2. The unfinished business of Indigenous citizenship in Australia and New Zealand......Page 43
Crisis management and political distortion of the past......Page 44
Indigenous citizenship as unfinished business......Page 46
Australia turns a new page: the apology......Page 48
Australia spurns a new page: the intervention......Page 51
The mythology of ‘nationhood’ in New Zealand......Page 54
Conclusion: the politics of history in comparative perspective......Page 57
‘Boat people’ (I)......Page 65
‘Boat people’ (II)......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 79
Acknowledgments......Page 80
4. ‘A modern-day concentration camp’: using history to make sense of Australian immigration detention centres......Page 83
The policy and practice of immigration detention......Page 84
Using history to make sense of immigration detention centres......Page 86
Aboriginal reserves......Page 91
Quarantine stations......Page 93
Enemy-alien internment camps......Page 94
Conclusion......Page 95
Acknowledgments......Page 96
5. Refugees between pasts and politics: sovereignty and memory in the Tampa crisis......Page 99
The old and the new of the Tampa crisis......Page 101
Sovereignty and refugees (I)......Page 102
Sovereignty and memories (I)......Page 107
Sovereignty and memories (II)......Page 111
Sovereignty and refugees (II)......Page 115
Acknowledgments......Page 118
6. Looking back and glancing sideways: refugee policy and multicultural nation-building in New Zealand......Page 123
New Zealand’s ‘fine record of humanitarian assistance’......Page 125
‘We are all immigrants’......Page 130
Apologising for the past......Page 133
Conclusion......Page 137
Acknowledgments......Page 138
7. Testing times: the problem of ‘history’ in the Howard Government’s Australian citizenship test......Page 143
The Howard reforms: return to a cultural-normative model of citizenship......Page 144
The citizenship test as a form of collective memory making (and forgetting)......Page 147
Historical analogies: citizenship policy in ‘assimilationist Australia’......Page 151
Policy constraints and the political uses of immigration history......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 158
Acknowledgments......Page 159
Afterword......Page 163
Select bibliography......Page 169