Claire Loughnan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4171557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Loughnan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Loughnan |
| SIGNATURE | LOUGHNAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1070-3933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond the Bars Community Radio Programme, a Decolonial Practice
An ethics of engagement community project was co-developed with 3CR Community Radio to learn about their Beyond the Bars radio programme, a radio broadcast produced in ‘prisons’. A collaboration with a First Nations broadcaster, a 3CR settler producer and two settler academics created a knowledge sharing project with local community radio, to demonstrate how Beyond the Bars can be considered a decolonial practice. This paper reflects on this prog…
Human rights and the white saviour pattern in Australia’s immigration detention industry
For seven long years, the refugee men imprisoned at the Manus Island detention centre (prison) had their rights denied under Australia's harsh border security policy. They did not appear into public view as the worthy subjects of human rights. However, when the Sri Lankan Nadesalingam family were finally released in mid-2022 and returned to their former home in Biloela, a small town in the Australian state of Queensland, it was celebrated as an e…
Peer reviews of teaching as appreciative inquiry
Covid-19 passports and refugees
The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen unprecedented state border closures and a proliferation of novel restrictions on human mobility both within and between states. This article examines the human rights implications for refugees and asylum seekers of one COVID-19 response measure within and beyond Australia: namely, the adoption of COVID-19 vaccination passport systems. We argue that the use of COVID-19 passport systems in 2021 intensified and …
Covid-19 and Sites of Confinement
The global COVID-19 pandemic starkly revealed the underlying structural harms and produced vulnerabilities for people living in closed congregate settings like immigration detention centres (‘IDCs’) and residential aged care facilities (‘RACFs’). This article compares the Australian legal regimes that regulate IDCs and RACFs, conceptualising both as authorising and enabling sites of control, confinement and social isolation. We argue that specifi…
Covid-19 and the relentless harms of Australia’s punitive immigration detention regime
Calls for the urgent release of people seeking asylum, refugees and other non-citizens held in immigration detention centres began as soon as the magnitude and reach of the global health crisis associated with COVID-19 became clear.Public health organisations quickly identified detention centres, as sites of mandatory and often overcrowded social confinement, as extremely high risk places for both infection and onward transmission of COVID-19.In …
Law, love and being in relation
This article takes up Agozino's call for love. Yet this call is not a straightforward one. In response, I press for an appreciation of love which avoids collapsing love into 'protection', engaging instead with the Aboriginal World View described by Kombumerri and Wakka Wakka woman and scholar, Mary Graham, as a form of conduct, reflection and a practice in listening. Through two quite distinct stories offered by young people in their encounters w…
Closure’ at Manus Island and carceral expansion in the open air prison
Manus prison was officially closed in 2017 following Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Supreme Court decision that the existence of the camp breached the PNG Constitution. The 'Namah' decision was significant in signalling and seeking to curb the imperial reach of Australian law but insufficient in resolving the question of refugee imprisonment. Far from ending the imprisonment of refugees, the closure following the judicial ruling has facilitated the exp…
Regional deterrence and ‘non-genuine’ refugees
The outsourcing of refugee protection obligations is reshaping state relations in the Asia Pacific and Southeast Asian region and has underscored a progressively punitive approach to ‘irregular’ refugee movement. Such a shift can be partially but importantly traced to the deterrent foundations of Australia's dual-track processing system, introduced as an outcome of the 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action on Indochinese Refugees (CPA). Although the …
Regional responses to refugees
There are many reasons why thinking about refugees in terms of regions makes sense. Overwhelmingly, the social, economic and political dynamics that result from refugee displacement are contained within, and carried by, regions. By far, the majority of refugees who have fled their country remain within the region in which they were born; and 85 percent of refugees remain in the developing world (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHC…
Closure’ at Manus Island and carceral expansion in the open air prison
Manus prison was officially closed in 2017 following Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Supreme Court decision that the existence of the camp breached the PNG Constitution. The 'Namah' decision was significant in signalling and seeking to curb the imperial reach of Australian law but insufficient in resolving the question of refugee imprisonment. Far from ending the imprisonment of refugees, the closure following the judicial ruling has facilitated the exp…
Covid-19 and the relentless harms of Australia’s punitive immigration detention regime
Calls for the urgent release of people seeking asylum, refugees and other non-citizens held in immigration detention centres began as soon as the magnitude and reach of the global health crisis associated with COVID-19 became clear.Public health organisations quickly identified detention centres, as sites of mandatory and often overcrowded social confinement, as extremely high risk places for both infection and onward transmission of COVID-19.In …
Covid-19 and Sites of Confinement
The global COVID-19 pandemic starkly revealed the underlying structural harms and produced vulnerabilities for people living in closed congregate settings like immigration detention centres (‘IDCs’) and residential aged care facilities (‘RACFs’). This article compares the Australian legal regimes that regulate IDCs and RACFs, conceptualising both as authorising and enabling sites of control, confinement and social isolation. We argue that specifi…
Covid-19 passports and refugees
The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen unprecedented state border closures and a proliferation of novel restrictions on human mobility both within and between states. This article examines the human rights implications for refugees and asylum seekers of one COVID-19 response measure within and beyond Australia: namely, the adoption of COVID-19 vaccination passport systems. We argue that the use of COVID-19 passport systems in 2021 intensified and …
Regional deterrence and ‘non-genuine’ refugees
The outsourcing of refugee protection obligations is reshaping state relations in the Asia Pacific and Southeast Asian region and has underscored a progressively punitive approach to ‘irregular’ refugee movement. Such a shift can be partially but importantly traced to the deterrent foundations of Australia's dual-track processing system, introduced as an outcome of the 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action on Indochinese Refugees (CPA). Although the …
Closure’ at Manus Island and carceral expansion in the open air prison
Manus prison was officially closed in 2017 following Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Supreme Court decision that the existence of the camp breached the PNG Constitution. The 'Namah' decision was significant in signalling and seeking to curb the imperial reach of Australian law but insufficient in resolving the question of refugee imprisonment. Far from ending the imprisonment of refugees, the closure following the judicial ruling has facilitated the exp…
Regional deterrence and ‘non-genuine’ refugees
The outsourcing of refugee protection obligations is reshaping state relations in the Asia Pacific and Southeast Asian region and has underscored a progressively punitive approach to ‘irregular’ refugee movement. Such a shift can be partially but importantly traced to the deterrent foundations of Australia's dual-track processing system, introduced as an outcome of the 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action on Indochinese Refugees (CPA). Although the …
Regional responses to refugees
There are many reasons why thinking about refugees in terms of regions makes sense. Overwhelmingly, the social, economic and political dynamics that result from refugee displacement are contained within, and carried by, regions. By far, the majority of refugees who have fled their country remain within the region in which they were born; and 85 percent of refugees remain in the developing world (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHC…
Covid-19 and the relentless harms of Australia’s punitive immigration detention regime
Calls for the urgent release of people seeking asylum, refugees and other non-citizens held in immigration detention centres began as soon as the magnitude and reach of the global health crisis associated with COVID-19 became clear.Public health organisations quickly identified detention centres, as sites of mandatory and often overcrowded social confinement, as extremely high risk places for both infection and onward transmission of COVID-19.In …
Law, love and being in relation
This article takes up Agozino's call for love. Yet this call is not a straightforward one. In response, I press for an appreciation of love which avoids collapsing love into 'protection', engaging instead with the Aboriginal World View described by Kombumerri and Wakka Wakka woman and scholar, Mary Graham, as a form of conduct, reflection and a practice in listening. Through two quite distinct stories offered by young people in their encounters w…
Covid-19 and Sites of Confinement
The global COVID-19 pandemic starkly revealed the underlying structural harms and produced vulnerabilities for people living in closed congregate settings like immigration detention centres (‘IDCs’) and residential aged care facilities (‘RACFs’). This article compares the Australian legal regimes that regulate IDCs and RACFs, conceptualising both as authorising and enabling sites of control, confinement and social isolation. We argue that specifi…
Peer reviews of teaching as appreciative inquiry
Covid-19 passports and refugees
The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen unprecedented state border closures and a proliferation of novel restrictions on human mobility both within and between states. This article examines the human rights implications for refugees and asylum seekers of one COVID-19 response measure within and beyond Australia: namely, the adoption of COVID-19 vaccination passport systems. We argue that the use of COVID-19 passport systems in 2021 intensified and …
Human rights and the white saviour pattern in Australia’s immigration detention industry
For seven long years, the refugee men imprisoned at the Manus Island detention centre (prison) had their rights denied under Australia's harsh border security policy. They did not appear into public view as the worthy subjects of human rights. However, when the Sri Lankan Nadesalingam family were finally released in mid-2022 and returned to their former home in Biloela, a small town in the Australian state of Queensland, it was celebrated as an e…
Beyond the Bars Community Radio Programme, a Decolonial Practice
An ethics of engagement community project was co-developed with 3CR Community Radio to learn about their Beyond the Bars radio programme, a radio broadcast produced in ‘prisons’. A collaboration with a First Nations broadcaster, a 3CR settler producer and two settler academics created a knowledge sharing project with local community radio, to demonstrate how Beyond the Bars can be considered a decolonial practice. This paper reflects on this prog…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Refugee (4 works)