Add to ORKGOn the 1st July 2015, the Australian government instigated Border Force, its then new customs agency to work alongside the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, as per Operations Sovereign Borders. Such agencies and operations reflect part of the new architecture of national border integrity, tasked to maintain what I argue is the ‘illusion’ of sovereignty, best articulated as, “we will keep them out.” At the same time, new laws enabled the prosecution of workers employed within offshore detention centres for speaking out about conditions there. These new measures, designed to cement a securitised and militarised border protection model, signify that avenues for much-needed scrutiny and respect for human rights – for asylum seeke...
For a nation largely comprised of “boat people”, asylum has generated the most debate, and at times ...
In the past decade, Australia’s stance towards asylum seekers has changed radically. No longer assum...
On health grounds, immigration detention should be used in very limited ways Like all rich nation...
On 18 September 2013, the day the Australian Coalition government was sworn into office, a new borde...
During the last decade measures of overt and covert surveillance, information sharing and deterrence...
We have restored the integrity of Australia’s borders and have stopped the deaths at sea. The Coali...
Australia’s approach to asylum seekers is a contested area of public policy and has been subjected t...
In recent years, the Australian Government has framed the arrival of asylum seekers by boat as a nat...
In late 2001, the Australian government put asylum seekers at the centre of its re-election campaign...
This article examines the main features of ‘The Coalition’s Operation Sovereign Borders Policy’, rel...
This paper will consider the Australian response to people smuggling against the backdrop of the eve...
Since the inception of Australia's mandatory immigration detention policy for ‘unauthorised’ arrival...
The Coalition has stopped the boats. We have restored the integrity of Australia’s borders and have...
When refugees displaced to Australia’s offshore detention do speak, it is through surveillance upend...
Australia’s criminalization of asylum seeking has almost closed the door for desperate people in sea...
For a nation largely comprised of “boat people”, asylum has generated the most debate, and at times ...
In the past decade, Australia’s stance towards asylum seekers has changed radically. No longer assum...
On health grounds, immigration detention should be used in very limited ways Like all rich nation...
On 18 September 2013, the day the Australian Coalition government was sworn into office, a new borde...
During the last decade measures of overt and covert surveillance, information sharing and deterrence...
We have restored the integrity of Australia’s borders and have stopped the deaths at sea. The Coali...
Australia’s approach to asylum seekers is a contested area of public policy and has been subjected t...
In recent years, the Australian Government has framed the arrival of asylum seekers by boat as a nat...
In late 2001, the Australian government put asylum seekers at the centre of its re-election campaign...
This article examines the main features of ‘The Coalition’s Operation Sovereign Borders Policy’, rel...
This paper will consider the Australian response to people smuggling against the backdrop of the eve...
Since the inception of Australia's mandatory immigration detention policy for ‘unauthorised’ arrival...
The Coalition has stopped the boats. We have restored the integrity of Australia’s borders and have...
When refugees displaced to Australia’s offshore detention do speak, it is through surveillance upend...
Australia’s criminalization of asylum seeking has almost closed the door for desperate people in sea...
For a nation largely comprised of “boat people”, asylum has generated the most debate, and at times ...
In the past decade, Australia’s stance towards asylum seekers has changed radically. No longer assum...
On health grounds, immigration detention should be used in very limited ways Like all rich nation...