"Making Place": The "Pacific Solution" and Australian emplacement in the Pacific and on refugee bodies

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 290-306

  Rajaram, Prem Kumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Australia; Pacific solution; Refugees; Sovereignty; Tampa; Territory

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS; REFUGEE; SOVEREIGNTY;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS;

EID: 0344926287     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9493.00160     Document Type: Article

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