Deter, Detain, Dehumanise
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Deter, Detain, Dehumanise

The Politics of Seeking Asylum

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Deter, Detain, Dehumanise

The Politics of Seeking Asylum

About this book

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 for other parts of the world, Deter, Detain, Dehumanise examines how the right to seek asylum has become a political tool of deterrence, detention and dehumanisation.

Bringing together leading academics across criminology, geography, law, political science, social work and sociology, this edited collection provides an understanding and critical assessment of Australian government policy as a series of systems, structures and operations that seek to normalise the detention and deterrence of those seeking asylum, explicitly defying Australia's international human rights obligations. Complemented by shorter, creative writings by refugees with lived experience of detainment at Australia's behest, chapters pursue an overtly political and innovative conceptual approach to the politicisation of seeking asylum, offering new insights into its structural framings.

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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Table of contents

  1. Halftitle Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Images
  7. About the Editors
  8. About the Contributors
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introducing the Politics of Deterrence, Detainment and Dehumanisation
  12. A Desperate Search for Freedom
  13. Chapter 1: ā€˜Create a Problem, Provide a Solutionā€™: The Racialisation and Politicisation of Seeking Asylum
  14. Chapter 2: Torturable Subjects and Psychotic Pockets
  15. Chapter 3: Examining the Politicisation of Asylum Through Public Information Campaigns: Deterrence Messaging for Whom?
  16. Chapter 4: A Decolonial Critique of Kenyaā€™s Encampment and Asylum Policy
  17. Chapter 5: Anonymous Lives: The Counted and Uncounted
  18. Chapter 6: Die Trying: Asylum Seeker Deaths at Sea
  19. Chapter 7: Manus Prison Theory, Art and the Politics of Refugee Representation: Contesting the ā€˜Deserving Refugeeā€™ Narrative
  20. Chapter 8: People and Places that Matter: Racialised Assemblages in Nauruā€™s Hyperextractive Asylum Regime
  21. Chapter 9: An End to Refugee Protection? The New Global Carceral Archipelagos of Exclusion and Possibilities for
  22. Trenches of the Unknown
  23. Index