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

该项目旨在建立从1989年至今柬埔寨“船民”抵达澳大利亚的社会法律帐户。该项目希望通过创新的研究方法为这些事件提供新的线索。它交织着档案和口述历史资料，试图描述机构对这些事件的反应，并展示参与者如何经历和记忆这些事件。预期成果包括加强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南，以确保这种政策具有历史性意义。通过产生新的历史知识和理解以及更知情的政策，将产生重大的社会利益。

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.