This book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.
Offering an unparalleled critique of the regulation and deterrence of protection seekers via the denial or depletion of social welfare supports, the book includes contributions from legal scholars, social scientists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers, in tandem with the critical insights and knowledge supplied by refugees. It is organised in three parts, each framed by a commentary that serves as an introduction, as well as offering pertinent comparative perspectives from Europe. Part One comprises three chapters: a rights-based analysis of Australia’s ‘hostile environment’ for protection seekers; a searing critique of welfare policing of asylum seekers as ‘necropolitics’; and a unique philosophical perspective that grounds scrutiny of Australia’s policing of asylum seekers. Part Two contains five chapters that uncover and explore the lived experiences and adverse impacts of different social welfare restrictions for refugee protection seekers. Finally, the chapters in Part Three offer distinct views on human rights advocacy movements and methods, and the scope for resistance and change to the status quo.
This book will appeal to an international, as well as an Australian, readership with interests in the areas of human rights, immigration and refugee law, social welfare law/policy, social work, and public health.
Edited by:
Peter Billings
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032288062
ISBN 10: 103228806X
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part One: Context and Critique Commentary Vanessa Barker 1. Regulating refugee through welfare: Australia’s hostile response to unauthorized maritime arrivals Peter Billings 2. The welfare policing of asylum seekers as necropolitics Leanne Weber 3. Spectres of subjugation/inter-subjugation/resubjugation of people seeking asylum: the kyriarchal system in Australia’s necropoleis Claudia Tazreiter, Omid Tofighian with Behrooz Boochani Part Two: The Depletion of Social Welfare for Refugees – Impacts and Experiences Commentary Lucy Mayblin 4. ‘I wanted to make a future, but now, I lost everything’: Australia’s inhospitable deterrence regime for people seeking asylum John van Kooy and Asher Hirsch 5. The growing challenge of precarious housing and homelessness for refugees and asylum seekers in Australia Emma Fell 6. Financial precarity and health for temporary refugee and asylum-seeking visa holders in Australia Moira Walsh, Clemence Due and Anna Ziersch 7. The triumvirate of refoulement: how asylum seekers negotiate welfare conditionality, behavioural scrutiny, and short-term visas Hanne Worsoe and Greg Marston 8. Asylum seekers, healthcare, and the right to have rights: The political struggle over Australia’s ‘medevac’ law David Neil and Michelle Peterie Part Three: Protecting and Promoting Respect for Refugees’ Human Rights Commentary Margaret Greenfields 9. Social welfare paradoxes for asylum seekers: Challenges for human rights Linda Briskman 10. ‘I spoke the truth about myself and that’s when you can connect with people’: Advocacy within the political system in response to living on a Safe Haven Enterprise Visa Caroline Fleay Mary Anne Kenny, Atefeh Andaveh, Salem Askari, Rohullah Hassani, Kate
Peter Billings is a Professor in the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Australia. He teaches Administrative Law and, Immigration and Refugee Law, and has published widely on public law, refugee law, human rights and ‘crimmigration’. He is the editor of Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics and Society (2019).
