Protecting the nation: Nationalist rhetoric on asylum seekers and the Tampa

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 576-592

  O'Doherty, Kieran ^a   Augoustinos, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asylum seekers; Australia; Discourse analysis; Immigration; Nationalism; Nationalist discourse; Racism; Tampa

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849086564     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.973     Document Type: Article

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