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 |
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| Type | online Blog post |
| Media of output | Text |
| Publisher | University of Oxford |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Publication status | Published - 16 May 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Name | Border Criminologies |
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| Publisher | Faculty of Law, University of Oxford |
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Gerard, A., & Weber, L. (2019, May 16). 'Humanitarian borderwork': Tensions between humanitarianism and securitization for NGOs working with asylum seekers in Australia. United Kingdom: University of Oxford. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2019/05/humanitarian