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Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.
List of contents
Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth
Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention
Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning
Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work
Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives
Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement
Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
HELENA ZEWERI is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver and affiliate faculty with the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.
Summary
Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.
