Book Launch Refugee Week:

Acts of Cruelty: Australia’s immigration laws and experiences of people seeking protection after arriving by plane

by Aileen Crowe (Palaver 2022).

Date: Tuesday June 21st   

Time: 6 – 8pm

 Upstairs of Vic Trades Hall Meeting Room 1 (54 Victoria street, Carlton)

Acts of Cruelty will be launched by Nyadol Nyuon

Aileen Crowe will be in-conversation with Ms Nyuon, a lawyer and human rights advocate, Maria O’Sullivan, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University, and Pamela Curr, refugee advocate.

Conversation chaired by Suresh Sundram (Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University).

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/acts-of-cruelty-book-talk-tickets-345142880647

About the book:

Acts of Cruelty: Australian Immigration Law and Experiences of People Seeking Protection After Arriving by Planedocuments the complex, drawn out and harsh legal procedures and historically racist and toxic immigration culture that await people arriving by plane and subsequently seeking refugee status in Australia. This story has hitherto been under-represented because of the more notorious offshore detention policies of successive Australian governments for people arriving by boat. In this book, research by Dr Aileen Crowe, a Franciscan nun and refugee advocate, provides both detailed insight into the lived experiences of such would-be migrants and the tortuous tangle of often harsh, punitive immigration processes and laws which they must navigate at their peril. The author’s support and advocacy role brings her close to individuals and families attempting to escape numerous forms of persecution in their own countries as they confront further trauma in seeking Australia's protection. The book is an important and challenging document for potential migrants and asylum seekers, politicians, lawyers, students of international relations, and the general public internationally.