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Alternative title: Smuggled : A History of Illegal Journeys to Australia
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Smuggled
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'The sea was rough, waves a few metres, falling on top of us. We were just waiting and hoping and praying that we were going to make it.'— Taozen, proud Australian, proud Hazara

'Smuggled offers a previously unseen glimpse into the dangerous and shadowy world of people smuggling. It shares harrowing true stories of those fleeing persecution to seek asylum and reshapes our idea of those —sometimes family, sometimes mafia — who help them find it.

'People smugglers have such currency in Australian politics yet they remain unknowable figures in our migration history. But beyond the rhetoric lies a rich past that reaches far from the maritime borders of our island continent — to Jews escaping the Holocaust, Eastern Europeans slipping through the Iron Curtain, ‘boat people’ fleeing the Vietnam War, and refugees escaping unthinkable violence in the Middle East and Africa.

'Based on revealing personal interviews, Smuggled provides a compelling insight into a defining yet unexplored part of Australian history.'

Source : publisher's blurb

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Works about this Work

Introduction : People Smuggling and Australian Migration History Ruth Balint , Julie Kalman , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Smuggled 2021;
Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman Turn to History to Rehabilitate the Figure of the People Smuggler Klaus Neumann , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 18 no. 4 2021; (p. 890-891)

— Review of Smuggled 2021 anthology essay biography

'I wish this book had been published in 2009. Then, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd infamously called those facilitating the journeys of asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia ‘the absolute scum of the earth’, adding for good measure that in his view, they should ‘rot in hell’. Then, Smuggled could have contributed to exposing Rudd’s influential remarks as little more than a hysterical attempt to save his prime ministership.'  (Introduction)

The Other Side of the Story : The Smuggler as Humanitarian Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 434 2021; (p. 29)

— Review of Smuggled 2021 anthology essay biography

'Professors Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman are descended from Jews impacted by the Holocaust. No surprise then that in the introductory sentences of this work they remind us that the first people smuggler was probably Moses. Throughout the Jewish year, we study this colossus, who may or may not have existed, as he leads the Hebrews out of Pharaoh’s bondage into the desert toward a promised land. For much of the past two thousand years, Jews have relied on people smugglers as they were shunted from country to country. In Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia, Balint and Kalman detach the people smuggler from the politicised, malign tropes surrounding this activity and present firsthand accounts from some of those who were smuggled and from the smugglers themselves.' (Introduction)

The Other Side of the Story : The Smuggler as Humanitarian Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 434 2021; (p. 29)

— Review of Smuggled 2021 anthology essay biography

'Professors Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman are descended from Jews impacted by the Holocaust. No surprise then that in the introductory sentences of this work they remind us that the first people smuggler was probably Moses. Throughout the Jewish year, we study this colossus, who may or may not have existed, as he leads the Hebrews out of Pharaoh’s bondage into the desert toward a promised land. For much of the past two thousand years, Jews have relied on people smugglers as they were shunted from country to country. In Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia, Balint and Kalman detach the people smuggler from the politicised, malign tropes surrounding this activity and present firsthand accounts from some of those who were smuggled and from the smugglers themselves.' (Introduction)

Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman Turn to History to Rehabilitate the Figure of the People Smuggler Klaus Neumann , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 18 no. 4 2021; (p. 890-891)

— Review of Smuggled 2021 anthology essay biography

'I wish this book had been published in 2009. Then, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd infamously called those facilitating the journeys of asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia ‘the absolute scum of the earth’, adding for good measure that in his view, they should ‘rot in hell’. Then, Smuggled could have contributed to exposing Rudd’s influential remarks as little more than a hysterical attempt to save his prime ministership.'  (Introduction)

Introduction : People Smuggling and Australian Migration History Ruth Balint , Julie Kalman , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Smuggled 2021;
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