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    Collateral Damage: The impact of Australian asylum seeker policy on Christmas Islanders (2001-2011)

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    Open access
    Authors
    Briskman, Linda
    Fiske, Lucy
    Dimasi, M.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Briskman, Linda and Fiske, Lucy and Dimasi, Michelle. 2012. Collateral Damage: The impact of Australian asylum seeker policy on Christmas Islanders (2001-2011). Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures. 6 (2): pp. 99-115.
    Source Title
    Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures
    Additional URLs
    http://www.shimajournal.org/issues/v6n2/j.%20Briskman%20et%20al%20Shima%20v6n2%2099-115.pdf
    ISSN
    1834-6049
    Remarks

    This article is published under the Open Access publishing model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Please refer to the licence to obtain terms for any further reuse or distribution of this work.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7240
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Since the Tampa incident in 2001, Christmas Island has been a central site where Australia’s border protection and asylum seeker policies are visible This article takes four key events over a ten year period to track the impact on Christmas Islanders and on the Islanders’ changing attitudes towards asylum seekers, detention and federal government policies. The views of Christmas Islanders are not often heard in public discourse about detention on the island. This article seeks to provide a platform for a snapshot of views and to call for a greater role for Islanders in decisions that profoundly affect their lives.

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