Anthea Vogl: Ending Mandatory Detention

Ending Mandatory Detention: Using Crimmigration to Explain New Technologies of Refugee Exclusion and Control in Australia

Australia, notoriously, allows for the mandatory, indefinite detention of all non-citizens who arrive in its territory without authorisation. While the use of administrative detention to criminalise, exclude and deter asylum seekers is on the rise in many states, Australia is increasingly using new means to control and exclude asylum seeker populations. Non-detention based technologies of exclusion are being employed in place of the use of mandatory, indefinite detention of refugee applicants. These new strategies signal a shift from the physical confinement and isolation as the dominant means of controlling and excluding refugees towards more subtle, material forms of deprivation and vulnerability. This paper uses the conceptual frame of ‘crimmigration’ to investigate the policy and practice of mandatory detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. By examining the governance of ‘onshore’ asylum seekers, I suggest that the lens of crimmigration allows us to pay attention to new means of refugee control and exclusion, while also revealing its normative orientation and limits.

Anthea Vogl – Biography
Dr Anthea Vogl is a lecturer in refugee and migration law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her research addresses racialised practices of border control, with a particular focus on the use of administrative powers and decision-making to exclude refugees and non-citizens. Anthea is a current UTS Early Career Researcher Fellow. In 2018 she was a visiting fellow at the Humbolt University Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) and was awarded a Social Impact Practice Grant for clinical work with refugee legal organisations and service provision in Australia. Her current research projects address visa cancellation practices among asylum seeker and refugee populations, and the private sponsorship of humanitarian entrants in Australia.

Anthea holds a doctorate in law from the University of British Columbia and the University of Technology Sydney (jointly awarded), and an LLM (McGill). She also holds a Bachelor of Arts and Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney. Prior to joining UTS, Anthea was an associate of the Renata and Andrew Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law (UNSW) and worked in family and refugee law. She is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

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