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Global Conflict, Gender and Security
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The Border Crossing Observatory recently submitted a short article to feature in the Border Criminologies blog, on the Australian Government’s new legislation excising the Australian mainland from the migration zone. This new law means that any asylum seekers or irregular migrants arriving by boat to Australia will be processed offshore on Manus Island or Nauru. ... Read more
As in last year’s budget, the foreign aid increase has been postponed for another year, saving the Government $3 billion over the forward estimates. $375 million of current foreign aid investment will go towards asylum seekers in Australia, a figure which will be capped. Australia’s asylum seeker policies cost the budget $1.3 b. The lions share ... Read more
The Border Policing: Gender, Human Rights & Security project is in the final stages of fieldwork, with interviews on the US- Mexico border due to start later this month. This project, about the micro politics of border control, is interested in making sense of border control and women’s irregular migration at the first point of contact ... Read more
Our colleagues at Oxford University, Centre for Criminology have established a research website ‘Border Criminologies’ that aims to draw together researchers working in criminology on border control. The website hosts a blog on borders and migration issues around the world. Blog posts are regularly posted and most recently, with two border deaths reported in the ... Read more
Yesterday we held our first Higher Degree Research Student workshop on “New empirical research on borders – security, human rights and gender”. Presenters included Eleanor Meyers, “Locating Environmentally-Induced Migration Amongst Silences Within International Refugee Law”, Sirakul Suwinthawong, ”Globalization and Migration at the Lao-Thai Border”, Brandy Cochrane, “With Child and Without a Home: Pregnant Refugees and Border ... Read more
Last night, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 4 Corners program aired “No Advantage: Inside Australia’s Offshore Processing Centres” by Deb Whitmont and Janine Cohen. The documentary goes inside of Australia’s offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island, and contains interviews with a number of staff who had worked inside the centres including health workers and, ... Read more
