Klaus Neumann

Across the Seas Klaus Neumann

Publisher Marketing: Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees? Have our past responses been motivated by humanitarian concerns or economic self-interest? Is the influx of 'boat people' over the last fifteen years really unprecedented? In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation. He places the Australian story in the context of global refugee movements, and international responses to them. Neumann examines many case studies, including the resettlement of displaced persons from European refugee camps in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the panic generated by the arrival of Vietnamese asylum seekers during the 1977 federal election campaign. By exploring the ways in which politicians have approached asylum-seeker issues in the past, Neumann aims to inspire more creative thinking about current refugee and asylum-seeker policy. Klaus Neumann is a historian based at Swinburne University's Institute for Social Research. His 2006 book In the Interest of National Security won the John and Patricia Ward History Prize, while his Refuge Australia: Australia's Humanitarian Record (2004) won the Australian Human Rights Commission's 2004 Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction. Contributor Bio:  Neumann, Klaus Klaus Neumann, Stimm- und Charismacoach, professionell ausgebildeter Sprecher und Schauspieler kennt genau die typischen Stimmprobleme und Ausstrahlungsbarrieren, welche einer erfolgreichen Kommunikation oder Rede im Wege stehen konnen. Sein Wirkungsfeld umfasst seit uber 20 Jahren das Stimmcoaching, die Charisma-schulung und den Schauspielunterricht von Einzelperso-nen und Gruppen sowie vielfaltige Darstellertatigkeiten im Buhnen- und Fernsehbereich, Synchronsprechen und Moderation. Weitere Informationen uber Klaus Neumann: www.charmingvoice.de