“Making Place”
The “Pacific Solution” and Australian Emplacement in the Pacific and on Refugee Bodies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20153167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Prem Kumar Rajaram (National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 290-306 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9493.00160 |
| OpenAlex | W2016715351 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 18 |
In September 2001, Australia effected a “Pacific Solution” to its “refugee problem”: the interception and transfer of “unauthorised boat arrivals” to processing centres in the Pacific Third World. These centres were agreed to by poor countries that were approached precisely because of their vulnerability and dependence upon Australia, in exchange for increases in aid. Australia thereby created a regional refugee problem and, in so doing, Australian seignorage also demands that the laws of those sovereign countries be placed in stasis so that people not convicted of a crime may be detained indefinitely. The Pacific region, in effect, came to be mapped in terms of its utility to Australia, both downplaying and concealing complex economic, social and political issues. This essay studies the Pacific Solution as a means of Australian "emplacement" in the Pacific and on refugee identity/bodies. Both refugee identity and the Pacific Third World are assessed in terms of their utility in serving as sites for Australian emplacement, whereby and wherein the borders of Australia are reinforced, to the detriment of extant “local” emplacements
Archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Extant taxon · Geography · Identity (music) · International law · Maritime boundary · Pacific Rim · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sovereignty · Vulnerability (computing) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Linking Land and Sea
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My Fema People
Refugees
Life in de facto statelessness in enclaves in India and Bangladesh
Estética de la vida cotidiana y hospitalidad. Activismo artístico en y entorno al año 2001
(Big) Data and the North- in -South
Pacific ‘Solutions’ and Imaginaries
Corrosive places, inhuman spaces
The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
Good governance in the Pacific? Ambivalence and possibility
On not seeking asylum
Navigating unfreedoms & re-imagining ethical counter-conducts
Creating hospitable urban spaces
Deterrence for whom? Public information campaigns as border internalization in Australia
Protecting National Sovereignty
A neoliberal nexus
Mobile sovereignty
Necropolitics as accumulation
The enforcement infrastructure of public information campaigns
Re-producing the Humanitarian Border
They Give Evidence
Constructing the Tropics
Beyond Postcolonial Theory
Homo Sacer
Convergence Towards a Single Asylum Regime
Borders, Strangers, Doors and Bridges
Spectacle, Simulation and Spectre
Thinking the law with and against Luhmann, Legendre, Agamben
Stat(e)ing Australia
Dangerous ontologies
Development studies and postcolonial studies
Australian Refugee Protection in the Wake of the Tampa
Old Paris Is No More
Hybrid Geographies
Another Justice
Culture sits in places
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
A Line in the Sea
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |