Part I: Labelling refugees. chapter1. Australian responses to refugee journeys: matters of perspective and context / Eve Lester ; chapter2. Once a refugee, always a refugee? The haunting of the refugee label in resettlement / Melanie Baak ; chapter3. 'His happy go lucky attitude is infectious': Australian imaginings of unaccompanied child refugees, 1970s-1980s / Jordana Silverstein ; chapter4. 'Foreign infiltration' vs 'immigration country': the asylum debate in Germany / Ann-Kathrin Bartels -- Part II: Flashpoints in Australian refugee history. chapter5. The other Asian refugees in the 1970s: Australian responses to the Bangladeshi refugee crisis in 1971 / Rachel Stevens ; chapter6. Race to the bottom: Constructions of asylum seekers in Australian federal election campaigns, 1977-2013 / Kathleen Blair ; chapter7. Behind the wire: An oral history project about immigration detention / André Dao and Jamila Jafari in conversation -- Part III: Understanding refugee histories and futures. chapter8. From Dahmarda to Dandenong via Denpassar: Hazara stories of settlement, success and separation / Laurel Mackenzie ; chapter9. Step by step: The insidious evolution of Australia's asylum seeker regime since 1992 / Savitri Taylor ; chapter10. Uses and abuses of refugee histories / Klaus Neumann -- Epilogue

Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives. Mostly covering the period from 1970 to the present, the chapters provide readers with an understanding of the political, social and historical contexts that have brought us to the current day. This engaging collection of essays also considers possible ways to break existing policy deadlocks, encouraging readers to imagine a future where we carry vastly different ideas about refugees, government policies and national identities.

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Funding to support this edited collection was provided by the Australian Research Council, ARC FL120100048, 'Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism from 1920 to the present'.

This volume originated in the Global Histories of Refugees conference organised by Professor Joy Damousi in 2016.

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