Between Care and Criminality
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Between Care and Criminality

Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare

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Between Care and Criminality

Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare

About this book

Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare's encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Series Foreword by Péter Berta
  8. Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth
  9. 1. A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention
  10. 2. The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning
  11. 3. Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work
  12. 4. Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives
  13. 5. Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement
  14. Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. About the Author
  20. Series List