'Humanitarian borderwork': Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia

Alison Gerard; Leanne Weber

'Humanitarian borderwork': Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia

Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Bulletin › Article

Abstract

What is humanitarianism? What happens when non-governmental organisations (NGOs) take on lucrative government contracts to provide services to asylum seekers? How does this ‘humanitarian borderwork’, defined as practices that contain a security logic that construct, shift and erase internal and external borders, differ from the work of NGOs in the criminal justice system or the immigration detention system?

Original language	English
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
Specialist publication	Border Criminologies
Publisher	University of Oxford
Publication status	Published - 16 May 2019
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2019/05/humanitarian

Cite this

@misc{2f1fafc727db47cfb238316d843aed59,

title = "'Humanitarian borderwork': Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia",

abstract = "What is humanitarianism? What happens when non-governmental organisations (NGOs) take on lucrative government contracts to provide services to asylum seekers? How does this {\textquoteleft}humanitarian borderwork{\textquoteright}, defined as practices that contain a security logic that construct, shift and erase internal and external borders, differ from the work of NGOs in the criminal justice system or the immigration detention system?",

author = "Alison Gerard and Leanne Weber",

year = "2019",

month = may,

day = "16",

language = "English",

pages = "1--4",

journal = "Border Criminologies",

publisher = "University of Oxford",

address = "United Kingdom",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - 'Humanitarian borderwork': Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia

AU - Gerard, Alison

AU - Weber, Leanne

PY - 2019/5/16

Y1 - 2019/5/16

N2 - What is humanitarianism? What happens when non-governmental organisations (NGOs) take on lucrative government contracts to provide services to asylum seekers? How does this ‘humanitarian borderwork’, defined as practices that contain a security logic that construct, shift and erase internal and external borders, differ from the work of NGOs in the criminal justice system or the immigration detention system?

AB - What is humanitarianism? What happens when non-governmental organisations (NGOs) take on lucrative government contracts to provide services to asylum seekers? How does this ‘humanitarian borderwork’, defined as practices that contain a security logic that construct, shift and erase internal and external borders, differ from the work of NGOs in the criminal justice system or the immigration detention system?

M3 - Article

SP - 1

EP - 4

JO - Border Criminologies

JF - Border Criminologies

PB - University of Oxford

ER -

'Humanitarian borderwork': Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia

Abstract

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this