Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Preface to the third edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Historical context to migration
- 2 Immigration control: An overview
- 3 Basic migration legislation and policy
- 4 The visa system and application procedures
- 5 Family and interdependency migration and other Australia-based visas
- 6 Business and investment visas
- 7 Skills-based visas
- 8 Temporary visas
- 9 Miscellaneous visas
- 10 Common visa requirements
- 11 Compliance: Unlawful non-citizens, removal and deportation
- 12 History of the Refugees Convention and definitional framework
- 13 Refugee and humanitarian visas: The statutory structure
- 14 Convention grounds
- 15 Persecution
- 16 Well-founded fear of persecution
- 17 Limits on protection of refugees – cessation, exclusion exceptions and protection by another country
- 18 Time for a fundamental rethink: Need as the criterion for assistance
- 19 The determination and review process for migration and refugee decisions
- Index
Preface to the third edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Preface to the third edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Historical context to migration
- 2 Immigration control: An overview
- 3 Basic migration legislation and policy
- 4 The visa system and application procedures
- 5 Family and interdependency migration and other Australia-based visas
- 6 Business and investment visas
- 7 Skills-based visas
- 8 Temporary visas
- 9 Miscellaneous visas
- 10 Common visa requirements
- 11 Compliance: Unlawful non-citizens, removal and deportation
- 12 History of the Refugees Convention and definitional framework
- 13 Refugee and humanitarian visas: The statutory structure
- 14 Convention grounds
- 15 Persecution
- 16 Well-founded fear of persecution
- 17 Limits on protection of refugees – cessation, exclusion exceptions and protection by another country
- 18 Time for a fundamental rethink: Need as the criterion for assistance
- 19 The determination and review process for migration and refugee decisions
- Index
Summary
A defining aspect of national sovereignty is that nation states have the right to determine which people are permitted to come within their geographical borders. Individuals, like nations, appear to be inherently territorial. In addition to this, a defining aspect of many people's personhood (their core identity) is the place where they were born or live.
Despite the disparate range of interests and projects that individuals have and pursue, there are basic goals that communities invariably share. Thus, in Australia, the current generation (building on the work of earlier generations) has committed enormous resources to building state institutions (such as our political and legal system), hospitals, schools, roads and recreational and sporting amenities and facilities.
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- Chapter
- Information
- Migration and Refugee LawPrinciples and Practice in Australia, pp. xxiii - xxvPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011