Thesis
From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru
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This dissertation draws on fifteen months of fieldwork between Geneva, Australia, Fiji, and the Republic of Nauru, focusing on the explosive growth of the refugee as a global commodity. I do so by examining the outsourcing of refugee processing to a new industrial site, where migrant meets mineral in the manufacturing of new commodities. Nauru, the world’s smallest island state, was almost entirely economically dependent on the phosphate industry in the twentieth century. After the wealth ...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Deposit date:
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2019-05-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Morris, J
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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