From the hand of Fr Frank Brennan, the Director of the Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre in Sydney comes the comparative study on asylum seeker policies. TAMPERING WITH ASYLUM. Published by the University of Queensland Press, it is what we have come to expect from Fr Brennan: a well-resourced and cogent argument in a look at Australia's asylum seeker policies - against the backdrop of how Europe manages both its borders and its asylum seekers.

Full details of the publication:

http://www.safecom.org/tampering.htm

In October last year, Father Frank Brennan shared with a Tasmanian audience - during the Anglicare Tasmania Social Justice Lecture titled "Tampering

with Asylum" that he had just "...circumnavigated the globe [....] looking at the treatment of asylum seekers in the United States and Europe."

From that lecture:

"In those parts of the world there are huge caseloads of persons seeking

asylum onshore and each country has porous borders requiring sensitive international cooperation. Whether it be in Washington, London, Brussels or Berlin, asylum seekers and those wrestling with striking the right balance between border protection and asylum have all heard of Tampa and Woomera."

"Even in the jail outside Berlin where persons are held in detention awaiting deportation, the young man who had been there one year had seen

the Woomera protests on television and was sickened by the inhumane realisation that children are regularly held in detention in Australia."

"One of the aspects of globalisation is that money and people are more mobile. Australia may be the end of the earth, but it is no longer inaccessible. Unauthorised movement from the third world to the first world, from insecurity to security, from persecution to protection is to be expected."

More at: http://www.safecom.org/brennan2.htm

PUBLICATION DETAILS:

PRICE: $29.95

Title: Tampering with Asylum, A Universal Humanitarian Problem Author: Fr Frank Brennan Publisher: University of Queensland Press Format: Paperback Dimensions: 227 x 152 x 17 Number of Pages: 230

To order, go here: http://www.safecom.org/tampering-order.htm