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Eleanor Davey is a historian of humanitarianism and activism. Her book Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954–1988 was published in 2015. Find her on Twitter @EleanorDavey.
Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.
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