Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2003
Abstract
Almost everyone is against people-smuggling. The refugee advocate excoriating the government for its mistreatment of asylum seekers, no less than the departmental official bemoaning the numbers of boat people landing on Australian shores, feels well-justified in insisting that, somehow, something must be done to put an end to this 'evil trade'. On the scale of virtue, the people smuggler appears barely a notch above (and for many, several notches below) the drug dealer, the child molester, or the gangster.
Discipline
International Relations | Political Science | Public Policy
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Quandrant
Volume
47
Issue
9
First Page
40
Last Page
41
ISSN
0033-5002
Publisher
Quandrant
Citation
KUKATHAS, Chandran.(2003). In praise of the strange virtue of people-smuggling. Quandrant, 47(9), 40-41.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2921
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
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Comments
Online re-publication at Global Policy 2013 May.