ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates resentment as an effective governmental technology employed over time to exercise control on the increasing number of "Asian" international students coming to Australia to stay temporarily or permanently. It illustrates the continuities existing between the past and present settler colonial governmental technologies employed to restrict the movement of "undesirable" Asian migrants alongside the pernicious persistence of the fear of territorial invasion and racial dilution in multicultural Australia. Australia decided to take up the "White man's burden" to assist Asian-Pacific countries by means of international aid, hence leading to the Commonwealth humanitarian project popularly known as the "Colombo Plan". The chapter also analyzes the metaphors of "jumping the queue" and "backdoor entry" as they circulated in governmental discourses regarding the regulation of international students' entry in Australia. In "Multiculturalism and Resentment", Duncan Ivison argues that resentment can be conceptualized in different ways with regard to multicultural societies such as Australia.
