Brandy Cochrane
Biographic Data
| ID | 183540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandy Cochrane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochrane |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRANE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0407-8879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer legibility and the refugee status determination process
It is well documented that LGBTIQ+ applicants face a multitude of stereotypes and biases from decision-makers worldwide. We build on literature that argues that there is an unspoken component of credibility – to what extent the applicant is legible to the decision-maker. Based on interviews with legal representatives of LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in Australia, we observe that if the applicant’s narrative and label of their lived experience is …
Australian terrorism legislation and children’s rights contraventions
New Australian legislation proscribes the accessing of violent extremist materials online as a terrorism offence, even if the person has no intention to commit a violent act. Given the increasing prevalence of young people accessing such material, these offences may disproportionately affect children as young as 10 and exacerbate existing children’s rights issues within Australia’s counter-terrorism framework, including harsh sentencing, the mini…
The Local 'Salad Bar' of Hate
This paper examines a local manifestation of extreme right political mobilisation in Australia from the standpoint of Connell and Messerschmidt's (2005) global hegemonic masculinity. Using Messerschmidt and Rohde's (2018) methods for analysing violent extremists' public statements, we examine public blog posts by 'The Lads [sic] Society' to scrutinise the relationship between local advocacy for a white ethno-state in Australia and global hegemoni…
Refugee and asylum-seeking women's lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration
Asylum-seeking women’s liminal citizenship in home countries is a contributing factor to their irregular migration. In this paper, we examine how conditions of gendered citizenship, specifically family violence, exert additional pressures on women to undertake irregular journeys. In examining the narratives of refugee and asylum-seeking women from Iran and Afghanistan, women spoke of multiple instances of family violence in home countries, in add…
Theorising Mothers’ Everyday Security in the Context of Irregular Migration
This paper explores the everyday security of refugee and asylum-seeking mothers before, during and after irregular migration. Based on narrative interviews with mothers residing in Melbourne, we analyse how their needs both do and do not fall into Nussbaum’s capabilities list. We argue that Nussbaum’s framework is not sufficient to capture the gendered aspects of everyday security related to carework. Based on this analysis, we suggest a new fram…
Harms at the Crossroads of Carework and Irregular Migration
Refugee and asylum-seeking mothers perform the duties of carework during and after the complex circumstances associated with irregular journeys and settlement in host countries. Utilizing motherhood as a central frame, the article links policies of border securitization with the tangible gendered consequences they produce in the daily carework of mothers. Past literature has explored gendered implications of border crossings and settlement, but r…
J. Freedman, Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate
Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender
In a global era of increased securitization of migration between the developed and developing world this article undertakes a gendered analysis of the ways women die irregularly crossing borders. Through an examination of datasets in Europe, the USA and Australia it finds women are more likely to die crossing borders at the harsh physical frontiers of nation-states rather than at increasingly policed ‘internal border’ sites. The reasons why women…
Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender
In a global era of increased securitization of migration between the developed and developing world this article undertakes a gendered analysis of the ways women die irregularly crossing borders. Through an examination of datasets in Europe, the USA and Australia it finds women are more likely to die crossing borders at the harsh physical frontiers of nation-states rather than at increasingly policed ‘internal border’ sites. The reasons why women…
The Local 'Salad Bar' of Hate
This paper examines a local manifestation of extreme right political mobilisation in Australia from the standpoint of Connell and Messerschmidt's (2005) global hegemonic masculinity. Using Messerschmidt and Rohde's (2018) methods for analysing violent extremists' public statements, we examine public blog posts by 'The Lads [sic] Society' to scrutinise the relationship between local advocacy for a white ethno-state in Australia and global hegemoni…
Harms at the Crossroads of Carework and Irregular Migration
Refugee and asylum-seeking mothers perform the duties of carework during and after the complex circumstances associated with irregular journeys and settlement in host countries. Utilizing motherhood as a central frame, the article links policies of border securitization with the tangible gendered consequences they produce in the daily carework of mothers. Past literature has explored gendered implications of border crossings and settlement, but r…
Australian terrorism legislation and children’s rights contraventions
New Australian legislation proscribes the accessing of violent extremist materials online as a terrorism offence, even if the person has no intention to commit a violent act. Given the increasing prevalence of young people accessing such material, these offences may disproportionately affect children as young as 10 and exacerbate existing children’s rights issues within Australia’s counter-terrorism framework, including harsh sentencing, the mini…
Refugee and asylum-seeking women's lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration
Asylum-seeking women’s liminal citizenship in home countries is a contributing factor to their irregular migration. In this paper, we examine how conditions of gendered citizenship, specifically family violence, exert additional pressures on women to undertake irregular journeys. In examining the narratives of refugee and asylum-seeking women from Iran and Afghanistan, women spoke of multiple instances of family violence in home countries, in add…
Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender
In a global era of increased securitization of migration between the developed and developing world this article undertakes a gendered analysis of the ways women die irregularly crossing borders. Through an examination of datasets in Europe, the USA and Australia it finds women are more likely to die crossing borders at the harsh physical frontiers of nation-states rather than at increasingly policed ‘internal border’ sites. The reasons why women…
J. Freedman, Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate
Harms at the Crossroads of Carework and Irregular Migration
Refugee and asylum-seeking mothers perform the duties of carework during and after the complex circumstances associated with irregular journeys and settlement in host countries. Utilizing motherhood as a central frame, the article links policies of border securitization with the tangible gendered consequences they produce in the daily carework of mothers. Past literature has explored gendered implications of border crossings and settlement, but r…
Theorising Mothers’ Everyday Security in the Context of Irregular Migration
This paper explores the everyday security of refugee and asylum-seeking mothers before, during and after irregular migration. Based on narrative interviews with mothers residing in Melbourne, we analyse how their needs both do and do not fall into Nussbaum’s capabilities list. We argue that Nussbaum’s framework is not sufficient to capture the gendered aspects of everyday security related to carework. Based on this analysis, we suggest a new fram…
Refugee and asylum-seeking women's lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration
Asylum-seeking women’s liminal citizenship in home countries is a contributing factor to their irregular migration. In this paper, we examine how conditions of gendered citizenship, specifically family violence, exert additional pressures on women to undertake irregular journeys. In examining the narratives of refugee and asylum-seeking women from Iran and Afghanistan, women spoke of multiple instances of family violence in home countries, in add…
The Local 'Salad Bar' of Hate
This paper examines a local manifestation of extreme right political mobilisation in Australia from the standpoint of Connell and Messerschmidt's (2005) global hegemonic masculinity. Using Messerschmidt and Rohde's (2018) methods for analysing violent extremists' public statements, we examine public blog posts by 'The Lads [sic] Society' to scrutinise the relationship between local advocacy for a white ethno-state in Australia and global hegemoni…
Queer legibility and the refugee status determination process
It is well documented that LGBTIQ+ applicants face a multitude of stereotypes and biases from decision-makers worldwide. We build on literature that argues that there is an unspoken component of credibility – to what extent the applicant is legible to the decision-maker. Based on interviews with legal representatives of LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in Australia, we observe that if the applicant’s narrative and label of their lived experience is …
Australian terrorism legislation and children’s rights contraventions
New Australian legislation proscribes the accessing of violent extremist materials online as a terrorism offence, even if the person has no intention to commit a violent act. Given the increasing prevalence of young people accessing such material, these offences may disproportionately affect children as young as 10 and exacerbate existing children’s rights issues within Australia’s counter-terrorism framework, including harsh sentencing, the mini…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Geography (4 works)