Covid-19 and Sites of Confinement
Public Health, Disposable Lives and Legal Accountability in Immigration Detention and Aged Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6174107 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Dehm (0000-0002-5504-4639), Claire Loughnan (0000-0003-1070-3933), Lee Steele (0000-0001-6944-7888), Linda Steele |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | University of New South Wales Law Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0313-0096 • E-ISSN: 1839-2881 |
| Publisher | University of New South Wales Law Journal (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.53637/gelr7037 |
| OpenAlex | W3158733384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
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 specific COVID-19 measures have intensified a logic of social exclusion and disposability towards people in IDCs and RACFs. Through comparing recent COVID-19 litigation, the article explores the possibilities and limitations of engaging legal strategies to achieve social reform and legal accountability within both sites of confinement. Ultimately, we suggest that such COVID-19 litigation has the greatest possibility of advancing social justice when it is embedded in a broader politics of de-incarceration and abolition oriented towards political inclusion, public health and building more equitable and just communities
Accountability · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Economic Justice · Immigration · Immigration detention · Political science · Politics · Public health · Social isolation · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Public Administration
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The limitations of monitoring immigration detention in Australia
Solitary Confinement, Prisoner Litigation, and the Possibility of a Prison Abolitionist Lawyering Ethic
| Citations per year | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |