The Healthcare Community and Australian Immigration Detention: The Case for Non-Violent Resistance

Essex, Ryan

Australia has one of the harshest immigration detention regimes in the world, labelled cruel and degrading and a crime against humanity; these policies have been widely condemned. This book calls for a shift in how the healthcare community approaches Australian immigration detention, calling for non-violent resistance to be incorporated in future efforts that seek change. Fundamentally, such an approach recognizes that if change is to be realized a shift is needed beyond evidence and reasoned argument; future efforts need to confront injustice, resisting and undermining what creates and sustains these policies. This book provides a rationale for such action and considers the justification of three different ‘types’ of action in detail; strike action, whistleblowing and principles disobedience.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-10-22

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9789811575396

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7537-2

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 214