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The politicisation of seeking asylum

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The politicisation of seeking asylum

by Rachel Sharples and Linda Briskman, Western Sydney University

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Wed., 28 October 2020

10:00 am – 1:00 pm AEDT

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This symposium will highlight a body of work that seeks to examine the systems and structures that have politicised seeking asylum

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FREE WEBINAR

CONVENORS: Rachel Sharples and Linda Briskman, Western Sydney University

Asylum seekers have occupied a particular place in the Australian national imaginary, particularly in the post-Tampa era after 2001. Over that time, successive Australian governments have pursued a militarised enforcement approach to national borders when it comes to people seeking asylum. This includes the implementation of ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ – the consolidation of a mandatory offshore detention and processing policy for anyone seeking asylum who arrives by boat and the controversial and dangerous ‘tow-back policy’. There has been a range of policy and legislative changes that have made seeking asylum in Australian more difficult, such as indefinite processing times, denying access to family reunion and government-funded legal assistance, and removing the right to independent reviews of refugee claims, among others. There are also operations that systematically censor information regarding asylum seekers - restricting media access to detention facilities, controlling information flows, and leveraging positions of power to manage the narrative. The most controversial and intractable has been the offshoring of immigration of detention to the countries of Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Manus Island). The symposium will be informed by the Manus Prison theory that has been further developed by the analysis of former Manus detainee Behrouz Boochani and his translator and collaborator, Omid Tofighian.

This interdisciplinary symposium will take an overtly political and innovative conceptual approach to this problem. Honouring, applying and extending the legacy of Behrouz and Omid’s work on Manus Prison theory, the symposium will highlight a body of work that seeks to examine these systems and structures so as to better understand how seeking asylum has been politicised in the Australian context, and what impact this has on Australian society more broadly.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Alison Mountz (Wilfrid Laurier University)

SPEAKERS:

Behrouz Boochani (Ngi Tahu Research Centre, Canterbury University/UNSW)and Omid Tofighian (UNSW/University of Sydney)

"Introducing Manus Prison theory: knowing border violence"

Claire Loughnan (University of Melbourne)

"The ‘Uncounted’: Understanding the politics of erasure in the management of populations"

Andrew Burridge (Maquarie University)

"Hotels, APODs, and the dangers of an ‘alternatives to detention’ framework: the need for an abolitionist praxis"

Anne McNevin (The New School)

"Sovereignty, passports and truth-telling: exchanges in hospitality"

Maria Giannacopoulos (Flinders University)

"Nomocide: The problem of colonial law on the question of asylum"

Julie Macken (Western Sydney University)

"Torture isn't all beer and skittles; the secret cost of Australia's refugee policy on Australians"

PANELLISTS:

Claudia Tazreiter (Facilitator) (UNSW)

Philomena Murray (University of Melbourne)

Anthea Vogl (UTS)

Linda Briskman (Western Sydney University)

Co-sponsored by: Challenging Racism Project and the Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre (Western Sydney University) and Academics for Refugees

Once you have registered, zoom details will be sent closer to the date of the event.

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  • Online Events
  • Online Seminars
  • Online Community Seminars
  • #immigration
  • #australia
  • #refugees
  • #detention
  • #asylum_seekers
  • #manus_prison_theory
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