Michael Marmo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Marmo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Marmo |
| SIGNATURE | MARMO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2999-3280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Knowledge is the Key’- Coercive Control Influencing the Continuum Between Arranged and Forced Marriages in Multicultural Communities
This paper examines the significant knowledge gap surrounding forced marriage, particularly among Muslim legal professionals, religious leaders, and the broader community in South Australia, despite its criminalization in 2013. A key concern is the limited understanding of the distinction between arranged and forced marriages, which is increasingly blurred by ongoing socio-cultural coercive control that may gradually erode genuine consent. This a…
Non-citizen women and visa cancellation: The role of gender in Australia’s current deportation regime under s 501
Socio-Legal frameworks to understand deportation of non-citizens: International laws versus national laws and policies
Solar Value Chain and Workers: Supporting a just transition in Australia by strengthening human rights due diligence
A just transition requires climate measures to be implemented in a way that engages and protects affected and vulnerable people and communities. However, due to the prevalence of modern slavery in global renewable energy supply chains, including evidence of people in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region being subjected to state-sanctioned forced labour at various stages of the solar supply chain, the transition to net zero is currently unjus…
Unmasking State Harm: The Border as a Theatrical Space of Gendered Violence
Systemic gendered violence at the borders of the Global North is perpetrated by state actors and their proxies, and yet remains underdiscussed. This article presents numerous cases of such violence to argue that it is not random, does not occur in a vacuum or at the whim of wayward officers. Rather, this gendered state violence is the expression of a patriarchal and hegemonic state that positions the woman at the border as out of place. Deploying…
Gatekeeping Family Violence: The Role of Religious and Community Leaders in the Afghan Migrant Community in South Australia
Community leaders in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, particularly Afghan migrant communities, may play an important role in understanding and responding to family violence. This paper explores the role and perspectives of religious and community leaders in the Afghan community in South Australia in relation to preventing and responding to family violence. It is argued that these leaders play a pivotal role i…
Worker exploitation in the Australian gig economy: Emerging mechanisms of social control
Through the case study of Gupta in the food delivery sector, this article argues that the gig economy has further increased the potential for worker exploitation in neoliberal capitalist global markets. Adopting a state-corporate criminology theoretical lens, the article addresses the harmful impact on gig workers, stating that incidents like the Gupta case constitute market-generated social harms. The proposed argument contributes to the existin…
Border Control and Undesirables in Britain and Australia
‘Undesirables’ explores the various border control practices employed against migrant communities that have been branded as undesirable by the authorities, including exclusion, deportation, monitoring and detention. The contemporary approaches to undesirable migrant groups have deep historical connections. This special issue offers evidence that current policy and practices are products of a long-term historical recourse. This proposed issue expl…
Continuity and Durability of Violent Border Policies and Practices Directed at Undesirable Migrants in Britain and Australia: Some Reflections on the Past–present Continuum
Using an interdisciplinary approach of critical historical and border criminology, this paper sheds light on the continuity and durability of the violent gendered-racialised border regime impacting ‘undesirable migrants’. With a focus on Britain and Australia, this article argues that border policies and practices have been constructed and maintained since the nineteenth century to the present day (continuity) and able to withstand various pressu…
The Interconnectedness of British and Australian Immigration Controls in the 20 th Century: Between Convergence and Divergence 1
The histories of immigration control in Britain and Australia in the twentieth century are often contrasted, with Britain imposing few formal restrictions on Commonwealth migration until the 1960s and Australia slowly weakening the ‘White Australia Policy’ throughout the post-war period. However as much as there is a divergence between the two immigration control systems, we argue that there is also a high level of interconnectedness between the …
A new landscape for security? Harvesting 'hope' for a better protection of human mobility
This intervention considers the potential for ‘hope’ to act as an analytical tool to examine mobility, precariousness and the quest for security in the context of migrants’ exploitation, or ‘modern-day slavery’, in Australia. The image selected depicts a bucolic landscape which elicits a sense of relaxation and connection with our roots. Such a landscape speaks of our ancestry, familiarity, security, and hopes in ‘our’ territory. Yet this image r…
Knowledge Exchange: Collaborative Reflexivity on Self-Medicated Victims of Crime
Collaborative research projects with service providers and their clients are becoming increasingly important for capturing a more comprehensive understanding of criminological matters. This article examines the role of academic—practitioner dialogue and collaboration in framing the concepts and protocols for an empirical study of self-medication among victims of crime. It reflects on the dynamic and nuanced encounters between criminologists, a vi…
Cycles of judicial and executive power in irregular migration
This article argues that power struggles between judiciaries and executives are fuelled by tensions of securitisation, border control and human rights over the issue of irregular migration. The article juxtaposes three paradigm court cases to render the argument concrete, focusing on two Australian High Court decisions ( M70 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and CPCF v. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor ) and one deci…
Crime victims’ self-medication: Findings from a study in South Australia
While considerable literature has explored the complex nature of victimisation, few empirical studies have examined the role of alcohol and other drugs (AODs) in victims’ experiences, specifically victims’ self-medication using AODs and its impact on ongoing health and welfare needs. Addressing the dearth of empirical research on the nature and extent of victims’ self-medication, and drawing upon quantitative data from a survey ( n = 102) of vict…
Transnational Crime and Criminal Justice
Providing you with a wide-ranging introduction to key international issues in crime and its control, this book covers all essential theories, and clearly explains their relevance to the world today. Going beyond just looking at organized crime, the book covers a range of topics including: •Human rights •Terrorism •Trafficking •Cybercrime •Environmental crime •International Law Plenty of case studies and examples are included throughout, including…
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights
Calls for governments and government agencies to be ‘human rights compliant’ have a long history, and since they were established in Britain in the nineteenth century, the ‘new police’ (what we now call ‘public police’) have been in the sights of rights activists. What is understood by the term ‘human rights’, however, has evolved substantially in recent decades, and so is what is understood by the term ‘policing’. Most specifically, in the latte…
Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control: Subject to Examination
This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historic
Knowledge Transfer and Contemporary High‐Skilled Mobility Between Italy and Australia: Guest edited by Marinella Marmo and Brendan Grigg
The myth of sovereignty: British immigration control in policy and practice in the nineteen-seventies
This article explores how British immigration control policy was carried out during the nineteen-seventies to filter immigration, while addressing the perceived problem of ‘non-white’ colonial migration. Recently released government documents suggest that the immigration control system should be viewed as a series of inter-connected institutions and actors that operated under the influence of a number of different, and often contradictory, factor…
I rregular M igration: Emerging Regimes of Power and the Disappearing Human
In December 2012, a comparative workshop was held at Flinders University, Adelaide to discuss emerging regimes of power in response to irregular migration. The workshop was conceptually organised around similar challenges being experienced by Australia and the southern European states of Italy and Greece. In both zones, the construction of the migration problem as a question of numbers and peoples plays a large role in developing border-control p…
Examining the Body through Technology: Age disputes and the UK border control system
In an effort to ascertain whether certain migrants and refugees have been telling the ‘truth’ about their age, the UK border control system has, in the past, relied on the use of skeletal x- ray to estimate the applicant’s age, and in recent years has sought to use dental x-ray for the same purpose. However using x-ray for age assessment purposes has been criticised as inaccurate in providing a reasonable estimate of age and as an unnecessary med…
Uncovering the ‘Virginity Testing’ Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History
This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. By analysing these documents, we argue that the ‘virginity testing’ controversy demonstrates the intersectionality of discrimination faced by migrant women from the Indian subcontinent attempting to enter Britain in the 1970s. Previous discussions of …
Is There a Desirable Migrant: A Reflection on Human Rights Violations at the Border: The Case of ‘Virginity Testing’
How to ‘Melt the Ice’ on the Streets: A Social-Control Analysis on the Rise of Methamphetamine within Australia and the Need to Reduce Demand
Since its emergence in the mid-1990s the increased use, illegal importation and home production of methamphetamine in Australia have sparked significant concern among the community, law enforcement agencies and policy-makers alike. In particular, the normalisation of methamphetamine consumption within some sub-groups, notably young people through the dance-party scene, has elicited a strong media concern and reactive law enforcement response. The…
The Empowering of the Italian Judiciary: The Shift Towards Activism
The evolving role of the judiciary as policy‐shapers and policy‐makers is becoming a topical and controversial issue in Italy as well as in other legal systems. Italian judges are experiencing a new form of responsibility, well beyond a mere interpretation and application of statutes as required by the traditional Continental civil law. They are importing and interpreting European Union provisions as well as interpreting the internal legal system…
Uncovering the ‘Virginity Testing’ Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History
This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. By analysing these documents, we argue that the ‘virginity testing’ controversy demonstrates the intersectionality of discrimination faced by migrant women from the Indian subcontinent attempting to enter Britain in the 1970s. Previous discussions of …
The Interconnectedness of British and Australian Immigration Controls in the 20 th Century: Between Convergence and Divergence 1
The histories of immigration control in Britain and Australia in the twentieth century are often contrasted, with Britain imposing few formal restrictions on Commonwealth migration until the 1960s and Australia slowly weakening the ‘White Australia Policy’ throughout the post-war period. However as much as there is a divergence between the two immigration control systems, we argue that there is also a high level of interconnectedness between the …
Examining the Body through Technology: Age disputes and the UK border control system
In an effort to ascertain whether certain migrants and refugees have been telling the ‘truth’ about their age, the UK border control system has, in the past, relied on the use of skeletal x- ray to estimate the applicant’s age, and in recent years has sought to use dental x-ray for the same purpose. However using x-ray for age assessment purposes has been criticised as inaccurate in providing a reasonable estimate of age and as an unnecessary med…
Continuity and Durability of Violent Border Policies and Practices Directed at Undesirable Migrants in Britain and Australia: Some Reflections on the Past–present Continuum
Using an interdisciplinary approach of critical historical and border criminology, this paper sheds light on the continuity and durability of the violent gendered-racialised border regime impacting ‘undesirable migrants’. With a focus on Britain and Australia, this article argues that border policies and practices have been constructed and maintained since the nineteenth century to the present day (continuity) and able to withstand various pressu…
Cycles of judicial and executive power in irregular migration
This article argues that power struggles between judiciaries and executives are fuelled by tensions of securitisation, border control and human rights over the issue of irregular migration. The article juxtaposes three paradigm court cases to render the argument concrete, focusing on two Australian High Court decisions ( M70 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and CPCF v. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor ) and one deci…
Is There a Desirable Migrant: A Reflection on Human Rights Violations at the Border: The Case of ‘Virginity Testing’
The myth of sovereignty: British immigration control in policy and practice in the nineteen-seventies
This article explores how British immigration control policy was carried out during the nineteen-seventies to filter immigration, while addressing the perceived problem of ‘non-white’ colonial migration. Recently released government documents suggest that the immigration control system should be viewed as a series of inter-connected institutions and actors that operated under the influence of a number of different, and often contradictory, factor…
Unmasking State Harm: The Border as a Theatrical Space of Gendered Violence
Systemic gendered violence at the borders of the Global North is perpetrated by state actors and their proxies, and yet remains underdiscussed. This article presents numerous cases of such violence to argue that it is not random, does not occur in a vacuum or at the whim of wayward officers. Rather, this gendered state violence is the expression of a patriarchal and hegemonic state that positions the woman at the border as out of place. Deploying…
Gatekeeping Family Violence: The Role of Religious and Community Leaders in the Afghan Migrant Community in South Australia
Community leaders in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, particularly Afghan migrant communities, may play an important role in understanding and responding to family violence. This paper explores the role and perspectives of religious and community leaders in the Afghan community in South Australia in relation to preventing and responding to family violence. It is argued that these leaders play a pivotal role i…
Border Control and Undesirables in Britain and Australia
‘Undesirables’ explores the various border control practices employed against migrant communities that have been branded as undesirable by the authorities, including exclusion, deportation, monitoring and detention. The contemporary approaches to undesirable migrant groups have deep historical connections. This special issue offers evidence that current policy and practices are products of a long-term historical recourse. This proposed issue expl…
Common Law and Civil Law Interactions in Criminal Justice at Judicial Level in Western Europe
More Profile Than Courage: The New York City Transit Strike of 1966
Common Law and Civil Law Interactions in Criminal Justice at Judicial Level in Western Europe
The Empowering of the Italian Judiciary: The Shift Towards Activism
The evolving role of the judiciary as policy‐shapers and policy‐makers is becoming a topical and controversial issue in Italy as well as in other legal systems. Italian judges are experiencing a new form of responsibility, well beyond a mere interpretation and application of statutes as required by the traditional Continental civil law. They are importing and interpreting European Union provisions as well as interpreting the internal legal system…
How to ‘Melt the Ice’ on the Streets: A Social-Control Analysis on the Rise of Methamphetamine within Australia and the Need to Reduce Demand
Since its emergence in the mid-1990s the increased use, illegal importation and home production of methamphetamine in Australia have sparked significant concern among the community, law enforcement agencies and policy-makers alike. In particular, the normalisation of methamphetamine consumption within some sub-groups, notably young people through the dance-party scene, has elicited a strong media concern and reactive law enforcement response. The…
Is There a Desirable Migrant: A Reflection on Human Rights Violations at the Border: The Case of ‘Virginity Testing’
Uncovering the ‘Virginity Testing’ Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History
This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. By analysing these documents, we argue that the ‘virginity testing’ controversy demonstrates the intersectionality of discrimination faced by migrant women from the Indian subcontinent attempting to enter Britain in the 1970s. Previous discussions of …
I rregular M igration: Emerging Regimes of Power and the Disappearing Human
In December 2012, a comparative workshop was held at Flinders University, Adelaide to discuss emerging regimes of power in response to irregular migration. The workshop was conceptually organised around similar challenges being experienced by Australia and the southern European states of Italy and Greece. In both zones, the construction of the migration problem as a question of numbers and peoples plays a large role in developing border-control p…
Examining the Body through Technology: Age disputes and the UK border control system
In an effort to ascertain whether certain migrants and refugees have been telling the ‘truth’ about their age, the UK border control system has, in the past, relied on the use of skeletal x- ray to estimate the applicant’s age, and in recent years has sought to use dental x-ray for the same purpose. However using x-ray for age assessment purposes has been criticised as inaccurate in providing a reasonable estimate of age and as an unnecessary med…
Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control: Subject to Examination
This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historic
Knowledge Transfer and Contemporary High‐Skilled Mobility Between Italy and Australia: Guest edited by Marinella Marmo and Brendan Grigg
The myth of sovereignty: British immigration control in policy and practice in the nineteen-seventies
This article explores how British immigration control policy was carried out during the nineteen-seventies to filter immigration, while addressing the perceived problem of ‘non-white’ colonial migration. Recently released government documents suggest that the immigration control system should be viewed as a series of inter-connected institutions and actors that operated under the influence of a number of different, and often contradictory, factor…
Transnational Crime and Criminal Justice
Providing you with a wide-ranging introduction to key international issues in crime and its control, this book covers all essential theories, and clearly explains their relevance to the world today. Going beyond just looking at organized crime, the book covers a range of topics including: •Human rights •Terrorism •Trafficking •Cybercrime •Environmental crime •International Law Plenty of case studies and examples are included throughout, including…
The Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights
Calls for governments and government agencies to be ‘human rights compliant’ have a long history, and since they were established in Britain in the nineteenth century, the ‘new police’ (what we now call ‘public police’) have been in the sights of rights activists. What is understood by the term ‘human rights’, however, has evolved substantially in recent decades, and so is what is understood by the term ‘policing’. Most specifically, in the latte…
Cycles of judicial and executive power in irregular migration
This article argues that power struggles between judiciaries and executives are fuelled by tensions of securitisation, border control and human rights over the issue of irregular migration. The article juxtaposes three paradigm court cases to render the argument concrete, focusing on two Australian High Court decisions ( M70 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and CPCF v. Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor ) and one deci…
Crime victims’ self-medication: Findings from a study in South Australia
While considerable literature has explored the complex nature of victimisation, few empirical studies have examined the role of alcohol and other drugs (AODs) in victims’ experiences, specifically victims’ self-medication using AODs and its impact on ongoing health and welfare needs. Addressing the dearth of empirical research on the nature and extent of victims’ self-medication, and drawing upon quantitative data from a survey ( n = 102) of vict…
Knowledge Exchange: Collaborative Reflexivity on Self-Medicated Victims of Crime
Collaborative research projects with service providers and their clients are becoming increasingly important for capturing a more comprehensive understanding of criminological matters. This article examines the role of academic—practitioner dialogue and collaboration in framing the concepts and protocols for an empirical study of self-medication among victims of crime. It reflects on the dynamic and nuanced encounters between criminologists, a vi…
A new landscape for security? Harvesting 'hope' for a better protection of human mobility
This intervention considers the potential for ‘hope’ to act as an analytical tool to examine mobility, precariousness and the quest for security in the context of migrants’ exploitation, or ‘modern-day slavery’, in Australia. The image selected depicts a bucolic landscape which elicits a sense of relaxation and connection with our roots. Such a landscape speaks of our ancestry, familiarity, security, and hopes in ‘our’ territory. Yet this image r…
The Interconnectedness of British and Australian Immigration Controls in the 20 th Century: Between Convergence and Divergence 1
The histories of immigration control in Britain and Australia in the twentieth century are often contrasted, with Britain imposing few formal restrictions on Commonwealth migration until the 1960s and Australia slowly weakening the ‘White Australia Policy’ throughout the post-war period. However as much as there is a divergence between the two immigration control systems, we argue that there is also a high level of interconnectedness between the …
Worker exploitation in the Australian gig economy: Emerging mechanisms of social control
Through the case study of Gupta in the food delivery sector, this article argues that the gig economy has further increased the potential for worker exploitation in neoliberal capitalist global markets. Adopting a state-corporate criminology theoretical lens, the article addresses the harmful impact on gig workers, stating that incidents like the Gupta case constitute market-generated social harms. The proposed argument contributes to the existin…
Border Control and Undesirables in Britain and Australia
‘Undesirables’ explores the various border control practices employed against migrant communities that have been branded as undesirable by the authorities, including exclusion, deportation, monitoring and detention. The contemporary approaches to undesirable migrant groups have deep historical connections. This special issue offers evidence that current policy and practices are products of a long-term historical recourse. This proposed issue expl…
Continuity and Durability of Violent Border Policies and Practices Directed at Undesirable Migrants in Britain and Australia: Some Reflections on the Past–present Continuum
Using an interdisciplinary approach of critical historical and border criminology, this paper sheds light on the continuity and durability of the violent gendered-racialised border regime impacting ‘undesirable migrants’. With a focus on Britain and Australia, this article argues that border policies and practices have been constructed and maintained since the nineteenth century to the present day (continuity) and able to withstand various pressu…
Unmasking State Harm: The Border as a Theatrical Space of Gendered Violence
Systemic gendered violence at the borders of the Global North is perpetrated by state actors and their proxies, and yet remains underdiscussed. This article presents numerous cases of such violence to argue that it is not random, does not occur in a vacuum or at the whim of wayward officers. Rather, this gendered state violence is the expression of a patriarchal and hegemonic state that positions the woman at the border as out of place. Deploying…
Gatekeeping Family Violence: The Role of Religious and Community Leaders in the Afghan Migrant Community in South Australia
Community leaders in culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, particularly Afghan migrant communities, may play an important role in understanding and responding to family violence. This paper explores the role and perspectives of religious and community leaders in the Afghan community in South Australia in relation to preventing and responding to family violence. It is argued that these leaders play a pivotal role i…
Non-citizen women and visa cancellation: The role of gender in Australia’s current deportation regime under s 501
Socio-Legal frameworks to understand deportation of non-citizens: International laws versus national laws and policies
Political science (21 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · History (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works) · Politics (7 works)