Deter, detain, dehumanise the politics of seeking asylum
Taken together, this body of work examines how Australia has politicised the right to seek asylum, to the detriment of asylum seekers and refugees as well as Australian citizens, and tentatively offers hope on how we might seek to normalise, legitimise and re-humanise the processes.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leeds
Emerald Publishing
2024
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Taken together, this body of work examines how Australia has politicised the right to seek asylum, to the detriment of asylum seekers and refugees as well as Australian citizens, and tentatively offers hope on how we might seek to normalise, legitimise and re-humanise the processes. Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Images -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing the Politics of Deterrence, Detainment and Dehumanisation -- Overview -- The Collection -- A Desperate Search for Freedom -- Chapter 1: 'Create a Problem, Provide a Solution': The Racialisation and Politicisation of Seeking Asylum -- Introduction -- Racialised Politics Past and Present -- Buying Votes -- Dehumanising Asylum Through Racialisation: Twinning Human Rights Abuses -- Neoliberalism, Privatisation and Contracting: Financial Profiteering and Moral Costs -- Exporting Trauma -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Torturable Subjects and Psychotic Pockets -- Introduction -- Is It Possible to Put a Nation on the Couch? -- Mourning and Melancholia -- Creating Torturable Subjects -- Creating the Threat -- Privatising Abuse and Creating Psychotic Pockets -- Torture Prevention -- Why the Need to Harm? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Examining the Politicisation of Asylum Through Public Information Campaigns: Deterrence Messaging for Whom? -- Introduction -- What Are PICs? -- Global Use of Campaigns -- Australian Context -- No Way: You Will Not Make Australia Home -- For Whom is Deterrence Messaging? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: A Decolonial Critique of Kenya's Encampment and Asylum Policy -- Introduction -- My Refugee Journey -- Kenya's Refugee Encampment Policy -- The Colonial Origin of 'Protection' -- The EU's Externalisation Policy -- Australia's Offshore Detention Camps -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Anonymous Lives: The Counted and Uncounted -- Introduction -- Border Deaths/Border Lives: Who Counts? -- Surveillance and an Excess of 'Counting' -- Surveillance and Numbering. |
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| Beschreibung: | Index |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 165 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781837532254 978-1-83753-225-4 |