Abstract
This chapter focuses on the arbitrary enforcement of the categories of migration status created by border regimes. Enforcement of migration border regulations is arbitrary in two senses: first, when it is applied unevenly and selectively, often due to discriminatory risk profiling, policies of deterrence, or to create public spectacle; and second, when it is applied without independent limit and due process, including the presumption of liberty and rights of appeal. Although migration border regimes vary in formality and capacity across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, they are similar in their arbitrary use of enforcement powers to arrest, detain and deport migrants with irregular status.
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In addition to the lack of parliamentary authorisation for expenditure on offshore detention, a government audit found that DIBP management of more than two billion Australian dollars of spending had ‘fallen well short of effective procurement practice’ by failing to organise competitive tenders for contracts, properly check invoices, or authorise payments (ANAO 2017).
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The Australian Senate Inquiry into the Serious Allegations of Abuse, Self-Harm and Neglect of Asylum Seekers in Relation to the Nauru Regional Processing Centre, and any like Allegations in Relation to the Manus Regional Processing Centre, was referred to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on 12 September 2016. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Legal_and_Constitutional_Affairs/NauruandManusRPCs
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The figures were provided by an international organisation on the condition the organisation not be identified (HRW 2014, 21).
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Henry, N. (2018). Carceral Responses. In: Asylum, Work, and Precarity. Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60567-8_6
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