Generosity and refugees : : the Kosovars in exile / / By Robert Carr.

• Author: Carr, Robert
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Specials in Modern History 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 pages).

Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile is a work of history studying the social and political context encountered by Kosovar refugees fleeing their homeland to Australia at the height of the NATO-led war against Serbian forces in 1999. The flight of the Kosovar refugees changed Australia's asylum seeker policy forever, and a new test for international humanitarianism had begun. Today refugee crises globally beg the international community to embrace a generosity of spirit. A question this book asks is whether there are limits to generosity, inhibited by nationally contextual and historical perspectives. Generosity and Refugees examines the role of the media in framing public understandings of refugees with intriguing parallels for understanding the contemporary political climate internationally.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Generosity, Refugees and Historical Perspectives in Relation to the Kosovars -- The Howard Government, Operation Safe Haven and Media Spin -- Kosovo and the Breakdown of Yugoslavia in the Eyes of the “West” -- Natural Selection? The Evacuation, Bureaucracy and Governmental Agenda -- Arrival: the Howard Government’s Propaganda Machine in Action -- The Singleton Incident: the Kosovars’ Protest for Improved Conditions at the Safe Haven -- The End of Operation Safe Haven: Repatriation and the High Court Challenge -- Conclusion: the Kosovars and Generosity in Context -- Appendix 1: Images of Kosovar Children, April to Early May 1999 -- Appendix 2: Images of the Kosovar Refugees Before and After Their Arrival in Australia -- Appendix 3: Images of the First Kosovar Refugees to Land at Sydney Airport in the Telegraph -- Appendix 4: Images of the Kosovar Refugees in The Australian -- Appendix 5: Media Images of the Singleton Barracks -- Appendix 6: Media Images of the Salihus -- Bibliography -- Index.