Governing by Looking Back: A Socio-Legal Account of Cambodian ‘boat people’

该项目旨在建立1989年至今柬埔寨“船民”抵达澳大利亚的社会法律账户。该项目希望通过使用创新的混合研究方法来揭示这些事件。它将档案和口述历史资料交织在一起，力求描述机构对这些事件的反应，并展示参与者是如何经历和记忆这些事件的。预期的成果包括增进对与庇护有关的政策的影响的了解，并制定国际和国内政策指导，以确保这种政策了解历史。通过产生新的历史知识和理解，以及更明智的政策，将产生重大的社会效益。

This project aims to establish a socio-legal account of the arrival of Cambodian ‘boat people’ in Australia from 1989 to the present. The project expects to shed new light on these events by using an innovative blend of research methods. Interweaving archival and oral history sources, it seeks both to describe institutional responses to these events and show how participants experienced and remember them. Expected outcomes include enhanced knowledge of the effects of asylum-related policy and the generation of international and domestic policy guidance for ensuring that such policy is historically-informed. Significant societal benefits will flow by generating new historical knowledge and understanding, and better-informed policy.