Citizenship and the Boundaries of the Constitution

Rubenstein, Kim; Lenagh-Maguire, Niamh

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“…Without any reference to citizenship in the Australian Constitution, there was no framework or structure from which legal principles could be developed; therefore, there was no imposed restriction on how Australian nationality should be regulated (Rubenstein and Lenagh‐Maguire :149). As consequence, Australian citizenship was subject to dominant political ideals and interpretations about national identity (Rubenstein and Lenagh‐Maguire :149). The absence of any reference to citizenship in the Constitution contributed to the intensity of the culture war debate.…”

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Minimalist Citizenship and National Identity in the Australian Republican Movement

Veri

2016

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Section: Multicultural Australian Citizenshipmentioning

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Minimalist Citizenship and National Identity in the Australian Republican Movement

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2016

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Citizenship at Home and Across Borders

Ballin

2017

Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

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Film as an anti-asylum technique: international law, borders and the gendering of refugee subjectivities

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Silverstein

2020

Griffith Law Review

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In 2015, the Australian government commissioned a telemovie as part of its strategic communication campaign to deter would-be asylum seekers from travelling to Australia unauthorised by boat. In this article we explore this film as one instance of state practices that seek to control migration at their borders, and a form of state messaging which uses gendered story-telling techniques and characterisations to do so. Officially termed 'public information campaigns' (PIC) by states or 'information strategies' by international organisations such as the UNHCR, the use of such practices has increased in volume, frequency and prominence in recent years. While there has been some academic attention to PICs, to date, the gendered dimensions of these campaigns have remained largely unexamined. In this article, we argue that a feminist analysis of PIC is critical to understanding both how state borders 'gender' refugee subjectivities as well as international law's authorisation of the violence of state borders more generally. By allocating blame and responsibility on individual refugees and their gendered choices, rather than on state actions and state violence, the film reveals how the institution and policing of state borders simultaneously rest upon gendered imaginaries of refugee responsibilitisation and the invisibilisation of state responsibility.

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Citizenship and the Boundaries of the Constitution

Cited by 6 publications

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Minimalist Citizenship and National Identity in the Australian Republican Movement

Minimalist Citizenship and National Identity in the Australian Republican Movement

Citizenship at Home and Across Borders

Film as an anti-asylum technique: international law, borders and the gendering of refugee subjectivities

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