Deter, detain, dehumanise : the politics of seeking asylum

Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those seeking safety and security. Documenting the systemic politicisation of the right to seek asylum in Australia, a process that has been hailed as a model f...

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Other Authors Sharples, Rachel (Editor), Briskman, Linda (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781837532261
DOI10.1108/9781837532247
Physical Description1 online resource (228 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Behrouz Boochani Introducing the Politics of Deterrence, Detainment and Dehumanisation / Linda Briskman and Rachel Sharples A Desperate Search for Freedom / Barat Ali Batoor
  • Chapter 1. 'Create a Problem, Provide a Solution': The Racialisation and Politicisation of Seeking Asylum / Rachel Sharples and Linda Briskman
  • Chapter 2. Torturable Subjects and Psychotic Pockets / Julie Macken
  • Chapter 3. Examining the Politicisation of Asylum through Public Information Campaigns: Deterrence Messaging for Whom? / Kate Coddington
  • Chapter 4. A Decolonial Critique of Kenya's Encampment and Asylum Policy / Bosco Opi
  • Chapter 5. Anonymous Lives: The Counted and Uncounted / Claire Loughnan
  • Chapter 6. Die Trying: Asylum Seeker Deaths at Sea / Michelle Jasmin Dimasi
  • Chapter 7. Manus Prison Theory, Art and the Politics of Refugee Representation: Contesting the "Deserving Refugee" Narrative / Anthea Vogl
  • Chapter 8. People and Places That Matter: Racialised Assemblages in Nauru's Hyperextractive Asylum Regime / Julia Morris
  • Chapter 9. An End to Refugee Protection? The New Global Carceral Archipelagos of Exclusion and Possibilities for Alternative Futures / Claudia Tazreiter Trenches of the Unknown / Hani Abdile.