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Thanks to Four Corners we now see the human face of migrant workers. Dan Peled/AAP

September 4, 2015

Temporary migrants are people, not ‘labour’

Shanthi Robertson, Western Sydney University and Martina Boese, La Trobe University

Australia’s current interest in the work temporary migrants do is laudable but needs to extend to other important issues of this million-strong community.

From White Australia onwards, have the attitudes of Australian society and the government on migration and asylum really changed over time? EPA/Stringer

June 20, 2013

From White Australia to stopping the boats: attitudes to asylum seekers

Melissa Phillips, The University of Melbourne and Martina Boese, The University of Melbourne

For a nation largely comprised of “boat people”, asylum has generated the most debate, and at times hysteria, of all immigration matters in Australia. Is this due to what multiculturalism academic Ghassan…

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