Audio courtesy of 3CR Community Radio’s Solidarity Breakfast. Originally aired June 11th, 2022.

Aileen Crowe is a nun of the Franciscan Order of Missionaries of Mary in Sydney, Australia. She has been a long-term advocate of refugee rights. She was awarded a PhD from the University of New South Wales for her research into the refugee determination process for asylum seekers who have arrived by plane.

‘Acts of Cruelty: Australia’s Immigration Laws and Experiences of People Seeking Protection After Arriving By Plane’ was called by Ngareta Rossell “a book about passion, danger, departures and arrivals. It’s about the desires and disappointments of people seeking Australia’s protection who arrive by plane. It’s also about the dishonesty and deceit practised by the Australian Department of Immigration whose xenophobic nature goes all the way back to the White Australia Policy, terra nullius and the early days of the colony.”

Pre-order ‘Acts of Cruelty’ Here.