The Embrace of Border Security
Maritime Jurisdiction, National Sovereignty, and the Geopolitics of Operation Sovereign Borders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948820 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Chambers (0000-0002-8852-1630, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 404-437 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2015.1004399 |
| OpenAlex | W2089955485 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Border security has become one of the key means by which the sovereignty and security of powerful nation-states is projected. This paper offers a set of observations of the Australian Commonwealth’s descriptions and instructions for its embrace of border security. Border security is legible here as a geopolitics that transforms the rights and responsibilities of maritime jurisdictions into a space of security that projects national sovereignty through the interdiction of boat arrivals. Its intensification as Operation Sovereign Borders is read as a further variation within national sovereignty, one that elevates the decisionist prerogative into total deterrence. Operation Sovereign Borders pushes the limits of sovereignty’s existence in the state toward a total domination of space, perception and human life in Australia’s maritime jurisdictions, in the name of the nation. This necessitates the development, defence and reinforcement of a regionally engaged materiality that is embodied, extended, enacted, and distributed. The intended effect of this coordinated effort is to secure the nation’s sovereignty as a unity, but the broader effect has been to devalue offshore life to secure onshore interests, in a way that now necessitates indefinite offshore detention
Business · Geopolitics · International law · International trade · Jurisdiction · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prerogative · Sociology · Sovereignty · Territorial integrity · Territorial waters · International Maritime Law Issues · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Maritime Security and History
Sovereign Borders The Militarisation of Asylum Seeker Discourses in Australian Television News Media
The Protection of Asylum Seekers in Australian-Pacific Offshore Processing
A photo-journalistic exploration of Covid, refugees, and Brisbane’s polymorphic border
Push and back
Border hotels
Offshore is a form, not a place
The Politics and Governance of Migration
Maritime borders
Complexities of governance and sovereignty in maritime security
Stopping boats, saving lives, securing subjects
Securitization of Search and Rescue at Sea
Geopolitical strategies and transnational environmental governance
Do asylum seekers and refugees choose destination countries? Evidence from large‐scale surveys in Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Asylum Seeking, Border Security, Hope
Nontraditional Security Challenges and the Geopolitics of Transnational Security Cooperation in the Mekong Region
Disrupting State Spaces
Comparative analysis of China's Health Code, Australia's Covidsafe and New Zealand's Covid Tracer Surveillance Apps
Facing a New Ocean Decade
Categorising anti-asylum Seeker Sentiment through a Regime of Securitisation
Civilian at Sea
Client States
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |