2.1. Research question
The research question of this thesis will be the following: “How can we explain that Australia, historically considered as one of the most open-minded and multicultural countries of the world, applies such a protectionist policy (Operation Sovereign Borders) with regard to asylum seekers?”. The political and cultural analysis that will be investigated around this policy will aim, on the one hand, at discovering if Australia can still be nicknamed the “Land of Tomorrow” for people seeking to get the refugee status and, on the other hand, at studying the concept of nationalism in Australia.
The annexed questions that could come out of this principal research question will inquire into the goals of major political parties to become engaged in a race about how best to shut down Australia as a place of refuge for people who take to the sea. Consequently, the secondary questions are composed as follow: What are the past and recent historical and political events which have led to the implementation of the current asylum policies? And from an …show more content…
This step demands a study of the historical past of Australia and the vestiges it has left on the current asylum policies, but also a study of the politics of Australia that allow this country to act on the international scene. The two first chapters will thus be related to the historical and the political dimension of Down Under. Various works on those subjects are already available (see: part 7. Provisional Bibliography of the Thesis). The following chapter will explain the Operation Sovereign Borders policy in details, which can be considered as the offspring of the historical and political backgrounds. As far as the final chapter is concerned, the international relations that have come into being around this policy will be
The research question of this thesis will be the following: “How can we explain that Australia, historically considered as one of the most open-minded and multicultural countries of the world, applies such a protectionist policy (Operation Sovereign Borders) with regard to asylum seekers?”. The political and cultural analysis that will be investigated around this policy will aim, on the one hand, at discovering if Australia can still be nicknamed the “Land of Tomorrow” for people seeking to get the refugee status and, on the other hand, at studying the concept of nationalism in Australia.
The annexed questions that could come out of this principal research question will inquire into the goals of major political parties to become engaged in a race about how best to shut down Australia as a place of refuge for people who take to the sea. Consequently, the secondary questions are composed as follow: What are the past and recent historical and political events which have led to the implementation of the current asylum policies? And from an …show more content…
This step demands a study of the historical past of Australia and the vestiges it has left on the current asylum policies, but also a study of the politics of Australia that allow this country to act on the international scene. The two first chapters will thus be related to the historical and the political dimension of Down Under. Various works on those subjects are already available (see: part 7. Provisional Bibliography of the Thesis). The following chapter will explain the Operation Sovereign Borders policy in details, which can be considered as the offspring of the historical and political backgrounds. As far as the final chapter is concerned, the international relations that have come into being around this policy will be