In praise of the strange virtue of people-smuggling

Almost everyone is against people-smuggling. The refugee advocate excoriating the government for its mistreatment of asylum seekers, no less than the departmental official bemoaning the numbers of boat people landing on Australian shores, feels well-justified in insisting that, somehow, something mu...

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Main Author: KUKATHAS, Chandran
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-41782024-01-10T01:44:02Z In praise of the strange virtue of people-smuggling KUKATHAS, Chandran Almost everyone is against people-smuggling. The refugee advocate excoriating the government for its mistreatment of asylum seekers, no less than the departmental official bemoaning the numbers of boat people landing on Australian shores, feels well-justified in insisting that, somehow, something must be done to put an end to this 'evil trade'. On the scale of virtue, the people smuggler appears barely a notch above (and for many, several notches below) the drug dealer, the child molester, or the gangster. 2003-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2921 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4178/viewcontent/In_Praise_of_the_Strange_Virtue_of_Peopl.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University International Relations Political Science Public Policy
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KUKATHAS, Chandran
In praise of the strange virtue of people-smuggling
description Almost everyone is against people-smuggling. The refugee advocate excoriating the government for its mistreatment of asylum seekers, no less than the departmental official bemoaning the numbers of boat people landing on Australian shores, feels well-justified in insisting that, somehow, something must be done to put an end to this 'evil trade'. On the scale of virtue, the people smuggler appears barely a notch above (and for many, several notches below) the drug dealer, the child molester, or the gangster.
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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