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SUMMARY:The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australi
 a - Dr Amy Nethery\, Deakin University
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Australia's policy of mandatory\, indefinite and unreviewable 
 immigration detention was introduced in the early 1990s to respond to the 
 arrival of asylum seekers by boat. The policy persists despite its failure
  to deliver policy goals\, vast expense\, international condemnation\, and
  human damage. What explains this persistence? In this essay\, I argue tha
 t immigration detention is best understood as the most recent iteration of
  administrative detention\, a form of non-judicial incarceration with a lo
 ng history. Governments in settler colonial Australia have found administr
 ative detention indispensable for classifying and then incarcerating group
 s of people regarded as a threat to national security or identity. Signifi
 cant historical examples include Aboriginal reserves\, quarantine\, and en
 emy alien internment\; today's offshore and onshore immigration detention 
 centres share a similar purpose and character. Sites of unmitigated execut
 ive control\, these different forms of administrative detention are contro
 l regimes with punitive effects. By demonstrating the embeddedness of this
  form of governance in Australia\, the essay provides an endogenous explan
 ation for the persistence of immigration detention\, despite its harms.\n\
 nAmy Nethery is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer at Deakin Univer
 sity.  She researches the development and impact of asylum policies in Aus
 tralia and Asia. She has a particular interest in immigration detention: i
 ts history\, evolution\, diffusion\, legal status\, consistency with democ
 ratic principles\, and human impact. Dr Nethery’s scholarship has been p
 ublished in leading international journals. Her PhD thesis entitled Immigr
 ation Detention in Australia won the 2011 Isi Leibler Prize for the thesis
  that best advances knowledge on racism in Australia.  
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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