Disability and Forced Migration: Intersections and Critical Debates

Disabled mobility and the production of impairment: The case of Australia's migration policy framework

“…Policies that reflect the sovereignty of the state ‘[favour] their relatively affluent populations and not the global majority’ (Munck, : 1239) with the aim of ‘protecting’ citizens from an amassing ‘threat’. This is despite ‘[t]he majority of displaced people […] being hosted by countries in the global South, in the Middle East, Asia and Africa … [which] challenges the discourse of burden propagated by certain global North countries and regions’ (Pisani et al ., : 290).…”

“…Alternatively, these border control policies need to be understood ‘within the broader context of North–South relations’ (Pisani et al ., : 289). According to Pisani et al ., refugees are a ‘spatially specific’ (: 285) phenomenon.…”

“…Alternatively, these border control policies need to be understood ‘within the broader context of North–South relations’ (Pisani et al ., : 289). According to Pisani et al ., refugees are a ‘spatially specific’ (: 285) phenomenon. Refugees fleeing conflict, violence and human rights violations are more likely to be in the Global South, and the structural conditions that cause migrants to flee also reside in power asymmetries, hierarchies and inequalities between the Global North and Global South (Pisani et al ., : 288).…”

“…According to Pisani et al ., refugees are a ‘spatially specific’ (: 285) phenomenon. Refugees fleeing conflict, violence and human rights violations are more likely to be in the Global South, and the structural conditions that cause migrants to flee also reside in power asymmetries, hierarchies and inequalities between the Global North and Global South (Pisani et al ., : 288). As such, Global North policies to regulate, manage and control access to their states for fleeing migrants subscribe specific bodies to these processes, reflecting Global North/Global South power hierarchies.…”

“…Existing approaches to analysing Australia's detention centre regime remain relevant in foregrounding specific problems with the detention process in Nauru. Nevertheless, SDT provides a new lens to approach policy and to theorise the migration and disability nexus, currently an undertheorised area ‘in policy, research and practice’ (Pisani et al ., : 286).…”