• Introduction - 'I was like a camera, I remember everything' Border policing, criminology and state crime Forced migration, refugees and the state From white Australia to multiculturalism: exclusion, hegemony and unauthorised migrants State of denial: the creation of the illegitimate refugee Declaring war in the Pacific A system of abuse: the Australian gulag State crime and the ideologies of exclusion Epilogue: A new beginning? References Index

"'Refreshingly this book is not only about unconscionable crimes committed by states it also engages with resistance and locates the possibility of social justice firmly within the domain of civil society.' Professor Penny Green (Kings College London) 'Meticulously research and elegantly written, Border Crimes argues that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers as 'illegal immigrants' should itself be regarded as criminal - as state crime. Mike Grewcock marshals the evidence irrefutably; after reading his account, 'boat people' will never again appear as suspected illegal entrants.' Professor Scott Poynting (Manchester Metropolitan University)"

• Introduction - 'I was like a camera, I remember everything' Border policing, criminology and state crime Forced migration, refugees and the state From white Australia to multiculturalism: exclusion, hegemony and unauthorised migrants State of denial: the creation of the illegitimate refugee Declaring war in the Pacific A system of abuse: the Australian gulag State crime and the ideologies of exclusion Epilogue: A new beginning? References Index

"'Refreshingly this book is not only about unconscionable crimes committed by states it also engages with resistance and locates the possibility of social justice firmly within the domain of civil society.' Professor Penny Green (Kings College London) 'Meticulously research and elegantly written, Border Crimes argues that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers as 'illegal immigrants' should itself be regarded as criminal - as state crime. Mike Grewcock marshals the evidence irrefutably; after reading his account, 'boat people' will never again appear as suspected illegal entrants.' Professor Scott Poynting (Manchester Metropolitan University)"

• Introduction - 'I was like a camera, I remember everything' Border policing, criminology and state crime Forced migration, refugees and the state From white Australia to multiculturalism: exclusion, hegemony and unauthorised migrants State of denial: the creation of the illegitimate refugee Declaring war in the Pacific A system of abuse: the Australian gulag State crime and the ideologies of exclusion Epilogue: A new beginning? References Index

"'Refreshingly this book is not only about unconscionable crimes committed by states it also engages with resistance and locates the possibility of social justice firmly within the domain of civil society.' Professor Penny Green (Kings College London) 'Meticulously research and elegantly written, Border Crimes argues that Australia's treatment of asylum seekers as 'illegal immigrants' should itself be regarded as criminal - as state crime. Mike Grewcock marshals the evidence irrefutably; after reading his account, 'boat people' will never again appear as suspected illegal entrants.' Professor Scott Poynting (Manchester Metropolitan University)"