Australia has one of the harshest immigration detention regimes in the world, labelled cruel and degrading and a crime against humanity; these policies have been widely condemned. This book calls for a shift in how the healthcare community approaches Australian immigration detention, calling for non-violent resistance to be incorporated in future efforts that seek change. Fundamentally, such an approach recognizes that if change is to be realized a shift is needed beyond evidence and reasoned argument; future efforts need to confront injustice, resisting and undermining what creates and sustains these policies. This book provides a rationale for such action and considers the justification of three different 'types' of action in detail; strike action, whistleblowing and principles disobedience.

Uniquely proposes a theoretically coherent alternative to 'traditional' advocacy, which until now has primarily involved research and witness reports Moves beyond descriptive accounts of the harm perpetuated by immigration detention toward advancing a justified normative argument as to why members of the healthcare professions should engage in more active forms of non-violent resistance Responds to global issues of critical international importance, as the crisis in displaced people escalates and moral quandaries about how to respond ethically proliferate

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Ryan Essex is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Lifecourse Development at the University of Greenwich. He completed a PhD with the University of Sydney and formerly worked in Australian immigration detention centres between 2011-15.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Brief History and Overview of Australian Immigration Detention.- Chapter 3: The Delivery of Healthcare in Australian Immigration Detention.- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Australian Immigration Detention.- Chapter 5: Reforming Australian Immigration Detention.- Chapter 6: The Case for Non-Violent Resistance.- Chapter 7: Strike Action.- Chapter 8: Whistleblowing.- Chapter 9: Principled Disobedience.- Chapter 10 Conclusions.