Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Asylum Seekers in Australia

Vogl, A; Methven, E

Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Asylum Seekers in Australia

Vogl, A

Methven, E

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Publisher:: Queensland Uuniversity of Technology
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: International Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020, 9, (3), pp. (forthcoming)-(forthcoming)
Issue Date:: 2020

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dc.contributor.author	Vogl, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6327-0524
dc.contributor.author	Methven, E
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-31T09:06:32Z
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dc.identifier.citation	International Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020, 9, (3), pp. (forthcoming)-(forthcoming)
dc.identifier.issn	2201-2966
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/141950
dc.description.abstract	This article critically examines techniques employed by the Australian state to expand its control of refugees and asylum seekers living in Australia. In particular, it analyses the operation of Australia’s unique Asylum Seeker Code of Behaviour, which asylum seekers who arrive by boat must sign in order to be released from mandatory immigration detention, with reference to an original dataset of allegations made under the Code. We argue that the Code and the regime of visa cancellation and re-detention powers of which it forms a part are manifestations of what Beckett and Murakawa call the ‘shadow carceral state’, whereby punitive state power is extended beyond prison walls through the blurring of civil, administrative and criminal legal authority. The Code contributes to Australia’s apparatus of refugee deterrence by adding to it a brutal system of surveillance, visa cancellation and denial of services for asylum seekers living in the community.
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dc.publisher	Queensland Uuniversity of Technology
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dc.rights	Except where otherwise noted, content in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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dc.subject	1602 Criminology, 1608 Sociology, 1801 Law
dc.title	Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Asylum Seekers in Australia
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Abstract:

This article critically examines techniques employed by the Australian state to expand its control of refugees and asylum seekers living in Australia. In particular, it analyses the operation of Australia’s unique Asylum Seeker Code of Behaviour, which asylum seekers who arrive by boat must sign in order to be released from mandatory immigration detention, with reference to an original dataset of allegations made under the Code. We argue that the Code and the regime of visa cancellation and re-detention powers of which it forms a part are manifestations of what Beckett and Murakawa call the ‘shadow carceral state’, whereby punitive state power is extended beyond prison walls through the blurring of civil, administrative and criminal legal authority. The Code contributes to Australia’s apparatus of refugee deterrence by adding to it a brutal system of surveillance, visa cancellation and denial of services for asylum seekers living in the community.

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