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Cruel Care

Cruel Care

A History of Children at Our Borders

by Jordana Silverstein
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2023

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A ground-breaking history of Australia’s treatment of child refugees.

Cruel Care tells a story of government, politics and the emotions that drive decisions. It asks why Australia has treated child refugees with violence and why governments say that the cruel acts they perpetrate are a form of care.

Based on extensive research – including 35 oral history interviews with key policymakers, along with a rich set of archival sources – this book traces how governmental authorities can make decisions designed to control and disenfranchise children in their care. It explores how legislation, ministers, political parties and the public service have combined to create a sentimental rhetoric of welfare while enacting repressive policies. And it details the weaponization of rhetoric such as ‘best interests of the child’ and the histories of race – and racism – that shape Australian discourses of national security.

At the heart of this book is a study of the stories of the people who shape refugee policy. Cruel Care asks provocative questions about how policymakers are shaped by, and in turn shape, their histories, communities and the nation, in order to offer bold suggestions for how we could achieve collective justice for refugees.

‘Brilliant … with a cut-through otherwise largely absent from Australian public discourse on refugees.’ – Frank Bongiorno

‘The aptly named Cruel Care is a groundbreaking book — confronting, deeply disturbing and revelatory.’ — Arnold Zable

ISBN:
9781922633873
9781922633873
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2023
Publisher:
Monash University Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
234.95x152.4x17.78mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Jordana Silverstein

Jordana Silverstein is a senior research fellow at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the University of Melbourne. She has also been a visiting scholar at the ANU’s Humanities Research Centre and a three-time judge of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.

Jordana’s work is published widely, including in The Conversation and Overland, and she has appeared regularly in the media, such as on the ABC, SBS and RRR.

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