| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 404 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Crimmigration Law: Context and Critique; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Key Themes and Organization of the Collection; 1.2 The Concept of Crimmigration; 1.3 Crimmigration in Australia: Law, Politics and Society; References; Cases; Secondary Sources; Chapter 2: Australia's Long History of Immigration, Policing and the Criminal Law; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The 'Crimmigration' Thesis; 2.3 Governing Immigration in the Long Nineteenth Century; 2.4 Enemy Aliens and Suspect Populations in the Early Twentieth Century |
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2.5 World War II and Post-War Mass Immigration2.6 Beyond Crimmigration; References; Case Law; Secondary Sources; Chapter 3: 'Race', Crimmigration and the Deportation of Aboriginal Non-citizens; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Explaining "Crimmigration"; 3.3 "Race" and Crimmigration; 3.4 "Race" and Australia's Colonisation; 3.5 Criminal Deportation and Aboriginal Non-citizens; 3.6 Criminal Deportation and First Nation Sovereignty; 3.7 Legal Determination of "Aboriginality" and its Significance; 3.8 Conclusion; References; Case Law; Legislation; Secondary Sources |
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Chapter 4: Sexing the Leviathan: When Feminisms and Crimmigration Meet4.1 Introduction; 4.2 What Is Crimmigration and Where Are the Feminist Voices?; 4.3 The Crimmigration Phenomenon: The Tales of Three Women Through the Lens of Feminist Criminology; 4.4 Crimmigration Manifesting as a Leviathan?; 4.4.1 Immigration Detention: 'Tough But Secure'; 4.4.2 A 'Transitory Person'; 4.4.3 She Sought Refuge in Australia, Where She Thought She Could Be Safe; 4.4.4 S99 Encountering a ... Leviathan?; 4.5 Crimmigration's Consequences: The Criminalisation of All Immigrants and Refugees? |
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4.6 Crimmigration's Genesis: Questioning the Applicability of Membership Theory4.7 Conclusion; References; Case Law; International Agreements; Legislation; Secondary Sources; Chapter 5: Crimmigration and the Australian Legal Lexicon: Reflecting on Border Control, Theory and the Lived Experience; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Development of the Crimmigration Thesis and Its Application to Australia; 5.3 Accounting for Crimmigration in the Australian Legal Lexicon; 5.4 Disentangling the Theoretical Analysis of Crimmigration Trends in Australia; 5.5 Revisiting a Crimmigration Research Agenda |
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5.6 ConclusionReferences; Case Law; Legislation; Secondary Sources; Part II: Crimmigration Law, Policy and Praxis: Indignity and Injustice?; Chapter 6: Characters of Concern, or Concerning Character Tests? Regulating Risk through Visa Cancellation, Containment and Removal from Australia; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Contours of the 'Character Test'; 6.2.1 Discretionary and Mandatory Cancellation Provisions; 6.2.2 Visa Cancellations and Procedural Fairness; 6.2.3 Administrative Oversight and Review; 6.2.4 Exorbitant Ministerial Powers; 6.3 Administration of the Character Test and Its Impacts |
| Summary |
This multidisciplinary book introduces readers to original perspectives on crimmigration that foster holistic, contextual, and critical appreciation of the concept in Australia and its individual consequences and broader effects. This collection draws together contributions from nationally and internationally respected legal scholars and social scientists united by common and overlapping interests, who identify, critique, and reimagine crimmigration law and practice in Australia, and thereby advance understanding of this important field of inquiry. Specifically, crimmigration is addressed and analysed from a variety of standpoints, including: criminal law/justice; administrative law/justice; immigration law; international law; sociology of law; legal history feminist theory, settler colonialism, and political sociology. The book aims to: explore the historical antecedents of contemporary crimmigration and continuities with the past in Australia reveal the forces driving crimmigration and explain its relationship to border securitisation in Australia identify and examine the different facets of crimmigration, comprising: the substantive overlaps between criminal and immigration law; crimmigration processes; investigative techniques, surveillance strategies, and law enforcement agents, institutions and practices uncover the impacts of crimmigration law and practice upon the human rights and interests of non-citizens and their families. Analyse crimmigration from assorted critical standpoints; including settler colonialism, race and feminist perspectives. By focusing upon these issues, the book provides an interconnected collection of chapters with a cohesive narrative, notwithstanding that contributors approach the themes and specific issues from different theoretical and critical standpoints, and employ a range of research methods |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration law -- Australia -- Criminal provisions
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Emigration and immigration law -- Criminal provisions
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Billings, Peter, editor
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| ISBN |
9789811390937 |
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9811390932 |
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9789811390944 |
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9811390940 |
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9789811390951 |
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9811390959 |
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