Does History Matter?: Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand

Neumann, Klaus; Tavan, Gwenda

doi:10.26530/oapen_459079

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“…Yet proposals for mass registration of alien 44 Saunders 1992;Finnane 2007;Neumann 2006 45 Persian 2017. 46 Tavan 2005;Neumann and Tavan 2009;Neumann 2004 Crimmingration in Australia, 2019 16 immigrants by the state police forces were rejected by the Commonwealth, whose first Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, planned a more welcoming reception for people who were refugees from totalitarian governments. Consequently, police, both state and federal, as well as the intelligence agency, ASIO after 1949, were kept at arms distance by the very powerful Immigration Department during the first 15 years of post-war immigration.…”

Section: The Second World War and Post-war Mass Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law

Finnane

Kaladelfos

2019

Crimmigration in Australia

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Modern immigration is a highly regulated procedure governing the mobility of peoples between sovereign jurisdictions. This procedure has been progressively refined since the late 18 th century through mechanisms of government that have frequently deployed the apparatus of criminal law. In this chapter we examine the long history of the intersection of criminal law and policing regimes in the service of immigration control in Australia. We take the Australian case as exemplary rather than exceptional. The particular conditions of British settlement of the convict colonies and the later construction of the White Australia Policy constitute a particular local formation of a more general phenomenon found in the development of modern states. Through a brief history of Australian immigration law and policing we highlight both the long-standing criminalisation of migration regulation breaches, and the persistent governmental concerns with the exclusion of undesirable populations, especially of those with criminal records. In the light of these histories we question the assumption that 'crimmigration' is a peculiarly late modern convergence of criminal law and immigration regulation.

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Section: The Second World War and Post-war Mass Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law

Finnane

Kaladelfos

2019

Crimmigration in Australia

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“…As for the unwanted, refugee policy was always thought of in terms of national security, although the dimensions of that trope shifted over time. The domestic security objectives of immigration policy were deeply felt by the key politicians and administrators in successive debates over Jewish refugees in the 1930s, or displaced persons in the 1940s and 1950s or the entry of Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s (Bashford and Strange, 2002;McMaster, 2001;Neumann and Tavan, 2009;Neumann, 2004;Nicholls, 2007). It scarcely needs stressing here that immigration will continue to be a key site of counter-terrorism strategies, however constrained by the countervailing politics of immigration policy and the demands of procedural justice.…”

Section: Counter-terrorism and Governmentmentioning

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Terrorism and government: Between history and criminology

Finnane

2013

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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Incontestably the decade since 9/11 has been the pre-eminent age of terrorism. Or has it? In this lecture we consider terrorism as an object of government and of academic research. In arguing that law and criminology have been the pre-eminent disciplines attending to governmental responses to terrorism we note that their interventions have been significant in both their critical stance and in their impact in shaping discourse about the tactics and limits of counter-terrorism, particularly legislation and its uses. But what understanding of the broader role of government in responding to terrorism emerges from such a literature? And what histories are available to inform such an understanding? Existing historical accounts of Australian security and intelligence as a response to political violence and terrorism are for the most part dominated by Cold War politics and ideology, especially through their preoccupation with the politics of intelligence organisations. Increasing availability of security archives, together with a more international view of the context of Australian counter-terrorism histories, provide a sounder base for assessing the emergence of terrorism as an object of government attention since the 1970s.

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“…Australia has a long history as a refugee destination country (Neumann and Tavan 2009). Especially in the aftermath of the Indochina war, Australia accepted thousands of refugees and integrated them into society (Grewcock 2010;Phillips and Spinks 2011).…”

Section: Australia: Keeping the Boats Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In May 2000, the Australia Federal Police (AFP) acting jointly with the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) established a People Smuggling Strike Team (PSST) that aimed to identify, investigate and prosecute people smuggling syndicates (Munro 2011). Especially under the Howard government (1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007), Australia introduced a series of policies popularly grouped under the term the "Pacific solution" that aimed to deter asylum seekers from coming to Australia by imposing mandatory detention, excising external territories from the Australian migration zone (mostly islands on Australia's northern and western littoral waters), the offshore processing of asylum seekers and the introduction of temporary refugee protection visas as opposed to permanent residency for recognised asylum applicants (Neumann and Tavan 2009). In 2001, the Australian government also introduced the 'Border Protection Law'.…”

Section: Australia: Keeping the Boats Outmentioning

confidence: 99%

“The Scum of the Earth”? Foreign People Smugglers and Their Local Counterparts in Indonesia

Missbach

Sinanu

2011

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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Since 2008, the number of asylum seekers and refugees trying to reach Australia from Indonesia by boat has increased. With many of them hailing from conflict-ridden countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Sri Lanka, most entered Indonesia with short-term tourist visas or fraudulent papers or no documents at all. It is widely known that a significant number of these ‘irregular’ migrants pay various types of brokers (often labelled, accurately or otherwise, ‘human smugglers’) at least at one stage – either to enter the country or to escape it. As a non-signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, Indonesia does not permit local integration. While a substantial part of these migrants are detained in the 13 immigration detention centres scattered around the archipelago, many roam freely, looking for opportunities for onward migration. Due to the restrictive border protection arrangements between Australia and Indonesia and a number of bilateral intelligence measures for deterring ‘unwanted’ migrants, human smugglers have been gradually forced to adapt strategies, routes and prices. According to much of the available data, most human smugglers are not Indonesians but foreigners who have been lingering in Indonesia for many years. This article demonstrates, moreover, that these foreigners depend upon local contacts to successfully carry out their risky business. Most often, the Indonesian counterparts are solely facilitators or handymen, but in a number of cases Indonesian authorities have also been involved in this highly lucrative business.

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Does History Matter?: Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law

Australia’s Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law

Terrorism and government: Between history and criminology

“The Scum of the Earth”? Foreign People Smugglers and Their Local Counterparts in Indonesia

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