The ethics and politics of asylum: liberal democracy and the response to refugees

Abstract

Australia: restricting asylum, resettling refugeesIt is our duty to present to the world the spectacle of a rich country with a great people, with an adequate population -with a population which may say justly to the rest of the world: We are here; we propose to maintain our integrity as a nation; and our warrant for that is that we are using the resources which God has given into our hands.The case for migration on a great scale is indeed an irresistible one.