“The most brutal immigration regime in the developed world”: International Media Responses to Australia’s Asylum-Seeker Policy

Laney, Hannah M; Lenette, Caroline; Kellett, Anthony; Smedley, Charlotte; Karan, Prasheela

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“…The resettlement program in Australia, explicitly labelled the ‘Humanitarian Program’, serves a primarily symbolic function. The Australian government has an international reputation for imposing cruelty and violence on refugees (Laney et al., 2016), demonstrated through the mandatory and indefinite detention of people (including children) attempting to seek asylum in Australia in offshore prisons in other Pacific nations where all refugee detainees have experienced human rights abuses and some have perished as a result of preventable medical situations, self-harm and even murder (Nethery and Holman, 2016). Refusing to resettle these refugees in Australia, the government cites the ‘Humanitarian Program’, which is primarily constituted of refugees selected specifically by representatives of the Australian government, as the only valid way to settle in Australia as a refugee and a hallmark of the generosity of the Australian nation in providing refuge (Phillips, 2017).…”

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Humanitarian exploits: Ordinary displacement and the political economy of the global refugee regime

Ramsay

2019

Critique of Anthropology

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Can the displacement of refugees continue to be understood as exceptional? The recent global increase in refugees has prompted calls to develop new solutions to displacement that focus on integrating refugees into the local economies of nations that receive them. Transforming refugees from economic burdens to economic benefits does not, however, resolve displacement: doing so only shifts the project of refugee protection from a supposedly humanitarian imperative to an economic incentive. Examining how political economy intersects with moral economy in the global refugee regime by drawing on fieldwork conducted with refugees in Uganda and Australia, I describe how efforts to incorporate refugees into local economies not only fail to resolve their displacement but serve to exacerbate it, with such ‘humanitarian exploits’ transforming refugees from recipients of humanitarian aid to highly exploitable workers who are, in their words, unable to ‘make a life’. I consider that continuing to analyse refugees as objects of humanitarian intervention rather than actors in a globalised political economy is a way to reproduce the exceptionality of refugee experiences and conceal how their lives are implicated within and indicative of new formations of global capitalism. Not only is the displacement of refugees not exceptional: it is emblematic of an increasingly globalised experience of ordinary displacement through which citizenship and civic rights are stratified by reducing the value of human life to the potential to extract economic productivity.

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Section: Australia: a Model Country Of Resettlementmentioning

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Humanitarian exploits: Ordinary displacement and the political economy of the global refugee regime

Ramsay

2019

Critique of Anthropology

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“…National policies on immigration, refugees, and asylum seekers are complex and contested. Laney et al (2016) note that despite its immigration history, "Australia has gradually become obstinate on asylum-seeker policy" (p. 143) shifting from a welcoming culture toward "a culture of fear and anxiety towards the 'other '" (p. 143). In response to this policy shift by the Federal Government in recent years, protests have ensued, in particular, against offshore detention.…”

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“It’s a Black Hole . . .”: Exploring Teachers’ Narratives and Practices for Digital Literacies in the Adult EAL Context

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Creely

Waterhouse

2021

Adult Education Quarterly

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A strength-based approach to teaching digital literacies can advance language education for adults from refugee and migrant backgrounds, preparing them for life in a new country. This article draws on a 6-month ethnographic study at an adult English language center in Australia and explores teachers’ perspectives and practices related to teaching digital literacies to understand how prepared they are to employ learners’ own resources. Using sociomaterial theory, this research found that English as an Additional Language (EAL) teachers’ narratives about learners focused on what they lacked rather than what they brought to learning. It also found that while teaching practices utilized some strength-based pedagogical principles, the teachers viewed their work as being deficient. They did not always recognize their agential power nor did they overtly understand that the technology itself afforded this power. The article concludes with implications for EAL practice and professional learning of teachers who work in the adult sector.

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“…recommendation of ChinuaAchebe's 'Things Fall Apart' as an example of resistance through a narration of perspectives from the lower Niger Laney et al (2016). point out that migrants and other actors have been using social media to challenge dominant, negative media representations.Landau (2019, p. 182) also believes in counter-narratives, diasporic literature and politics that "reinscribe Africa into global circulations of ideas, people, and material".5.6 Transnational social movementsTransnational social movements take shape in international migration forums and workshops organised by African or migrant networks, all striving towards challenging a global migration policy.…”

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West-African Modes of Mobilisations Confronting EU Mobility Regimes

Söhnholz¹

2020

Rev. Fac. Dir. da UFU

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This article explores West-African modes of mobilisations confronting the externalisation of European borders. At the hands of a secondary data analysis, this article critically examined the most recent publications in relation to this topic, guided by the following research question: How do West-African modes of mobilisations challenge EU mobility regimes? This research identified governments, local organisations, (potential) migrants, expelled migrants, media, academia and writers and transnational social movements as relevant actors with different modes of action. This research suggests that there are multiple West-African modes of mobilisations that challenge EU mobility regimes, confront the problematisation of non-sedentary lifestyles and see mobility as a strategy and a solution for a bottom-up process of globalisation and as an inherent part of West-African mobile societies; existing next to African modes of mobilisations that have become part of EU mobility regimes. The objective of this research is to promote future research by increasing the visibility and political agency of the transformative possibilities of African modes of mobilisations.

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“The most brutal immigration regime in the developed world”: International Media Responses to Australia’s Asylum-Seeker Policy

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Humanitarian exploits: Ordinary displacement and the political economy of the global refugee regime

Humanitarian exploits: Ordinary displacement and the political economy of the global refugee regime

“It’s a Black Hole . . .”: Exploring Teachers’ Narratives and Practices for Digital Literacies in the Adult EAL Context

West-African Modes of Mobilisations Confronting EU Mobility Regimes

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