5
Apr
Asylum Seeker mistreatment – the criminal law perspectice
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s November 2014 Forgotten Children report, about Australia’s mistreatment of asylum seeker children in detention, exposed the international human rights law and “duty of care” breaches involved. The report’s focus was only on breaches of civil law – that people can be sued for. But the mistreatment of asylum seeker children (and adults) also... Read More
5
Apr
Delete the term ‘ethnic.’ Representations of ‘Stateless Arabs.’
It was a pleasure to present my work at the tenth annual Researchers for Asylum seekers conference on the 16th of November, 2015. It was a rare privilege to exchange ideas with like-minded researchers who are concerned for the welfare of refugees and the manner in which they are represented in the media and academic... Read More
5
Apr
The competing sovereign: pregnancy, resistance and seeking asylum
How might we understand the construction and policing of the pregnant body through the presence and the practice of these detention camps – neither entirely within nor entirely outside the rule of law? For those of us concerned with the relationship between biological life and political subjectivity, Giorgio Agamben’s work has helped think through topics... Read More