Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Between 1999 and 2001 almost 13,000 refugees made their way to Australia from the Middle East region.About 4,800 of them were Iraqi who had first fled to neighbouring countries such as Iran, Jordan and Syria, then to Indonesia via Malaysia.After negotiating with people smugglers, the vast majority boarded unsafe wooden boats bound for Australia.Some never got that far, instead finding themselves stranded in Indonesia.This thesis follows 22 participants as they travelled from the Middle East, across southeast Asia, onto the people smugglers' boats and -for those who made it that far -onto Australian shores.Grounded theory was influential in the methods used to interview participants and contributed to the analysis phase, from which a number of themes emerged.Central to
Author: Sue Hoffman
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Exile Studies
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Murdoch University
OpenAlex ID: W120701283