1st Edition

Refugee Externalisation Policies Responsibility, Legitimacy and Accountability

Edited By Azadeh Dastyari, Amy Nethery, Asher Hirsch Copyright 2023
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the impact and effects of refugee externalisation policies in two regions: Australia’s border control practices in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and the activities of the European Union and its member states in North Africa. The book assesses the underlying motivations, processes, policy frameworks and human rights violations of refugee externalisation practices. Case... Read more

1. Examining refugee externalisation policies: a comparative study of Europe and Australia

AMY NETHERY, AZADEH DASTYARI AND ASHER HIRSCH

PART I: What is externalisation?

2. The cat and mouse game of refugee externalisation policies: between law and politics

SANDRA LAVENEX

3. The externalisation of refugee policies: the politics of distancing

PHILOMENA MURRAY

PART II: Interception at sea

4. Australia’s boat push-back policy: hyper-legalism and obfuscation in action

DANIEL GHEZELBASH

5. Interdiction in the Mediterranean Sea: From Unilateral to Multilateral Cooperation

MARIA-LOUIZA DEFTOU, DIMITRA PAPAGEORGIOU AND EFTHYMIOS PAPASTAVRIDIS

PART III: Extraterritorial processing

6. Active neglect and the externalisation of responsibility for refugee protection

CLAIRE LOUGHNAN

7. Beyond Europe’s borders: containment and deterrence across the Mediterranean Sea

ĊETTA MAINWARING

PART IV: Containment and third country interception

8. Floodgate politics: Europe’s externalisation policies and Turkey’s response

SIBEL KARADAĞ

9. Externalised immobilisation strategies: from detaining to containing refugees in Indonesia

ANTJE MISSBACH

PART V: Communicating externalisation and resistance

10. Awareness campaigns to deter migrants: a neoliberal industry for symbolic bordering

VALENTINA CAPPI AND PIERLUIGI MUSARÒ

11. #LetThemStay: evaluating communications factors that contributed to asylum policy reform in Australia

NIKKI SULLINGS

PART VI: The future of externalisation

12. Refugee externalisation policies: what we have learnt and where are we going?

AMY NETHERY AND AZADEH DASTYARI

Biography

Azadeh Dastyari is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at Western Sydney University and a Director of the Network for Law and Human Rights, Australia. 

Amy Nethery is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Policy Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Asher Hirsch is a Senior Policy Officer with the Refugee Council of Australia.