Topic: Why is border security such a big deal in Europe and Australia? Compare and contrast these case studies.

Order Description

You can address your case studies consecutively (the first half of your exam considers Case Study A and the second half Case Study B) or concurrently (you examine different components of border security and compare and contrast the two case studies as you go along).

Please read through ALL of the required materials carefully (most of them are listed below. It’s not really necessary in this essay to define terms: just get straight into the argument. Do not exceed 2200 words (not including references).

PLEASE ENSURE THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF PLAGIARISM. THIS ESSAY WILL BE PROCESSED THROUGH TURNITIN SOFTWARE.

Some general guidelines:

The author has read widely, and cover the field. They have a good understanding of the material that they have read, and it is critically digested and made good use of in the development of an argument, rather than just reproduced.

B. The author offers a clear and interesting response to the question, and presents compelling and well‐ordered argument that explains and makes a good case for the author’s perspective, as well as characterizing correctly and doing justice to viewpoints with which the author disagrees. A range of relevant viewpoints will be considered. Doing justice to other viewpoints does not mean not expressing disagreement with them. Rather, a good essay will have its own point of view, for which the author argues.
What is needed is that the author is fair to other views, such that someone who holds a view with which the author disagrees would have to admit that the author’s account of their viewpoint was fair, and that the author had considered the kinds of response that that person would make to the author’s views, even though they would not have put things quite as did the author. The author will thus anticipate and answer what would be likely to be the obvious comebacks to their critics from whose whom they are criticizing, and will produce an argument that even someone who disagrees with them will have to admit is telling. The author will make good use of the (limited) space available, and there will be no padding.

C. The material will be well‐presented. It will be made clear to the reader what is being argued, and what role each element of the discussion, or each quotation from some other author – which will be brief and to the point – is playing in the overall argument, which itself is clearly a response to the question as set. The author should always be in command of the material that they are using, and be using it to develop their own response to the question. It should always be clear to the reader what point is being drawn by the author from what source.

D. The essay will use a good, clear system of referencing which will allow the reader to identify what is being referred to; quotations will be accurate, there will be a clear and accurate bibliography, and the author will typically have both run a spell check and have read through the essay (ideally, out loud as punctuated, to someone else), before it is handed in.

Some more resources (some will be attached later). Read all of the Allocated Readings, but you can pick and choose out of the suggested ones. I hope I haven’t overwhelmed you with materials.

EUROPE:

Allocated Reading :

Mark Steyn, “Bicultural Europe is Doomed”, Telegraph 15 November 2005.
Eiko R. Thielemann, “Towards a Common European Asylum Policy”, in Terri E. Givens, Gary P. Freeman and David L. Leal (eds.), Immigration policy and security : U.S., European, and Commonwealth perspectives (New York, NY: Routledge, 2009) 167-185.
Emanuela Paoletti, “Power Relations and International Migration The Case of Italy and Libya” Political Studies 59 (2011).
Emma Haddad, “Danger Happens at the Border”, in Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr (eds.) Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007) 119-136

Suggested Reading :

Didier Bigo, “Internal and External Aspects of Security”, European Security 15:4 (December 2006) 385-404.
Didier Bigo and Elspeth Guild (eds.), In Controlling Frontiers: Free Movement Into and Within Europe (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005) 233-263.
Carol Bohmer and Amy Shuman, Rejecting Refugees: political asylum in the 21st century (New York : Routledge, 2007).
Christina Boswell, “European Values and the Asylum Crisis”, International Affairs 76:3 (July 2000) 537-557.
______. European Migration Policies in Flux: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion (Oxford : Blackwell, 2003).
______. “The ‘external dimension’ of EU immigration and asylum policy”. International Affairs 79:3 (2003) 619-638.
Rosemary Byrne, “Harmonization and Burden Redistribution in the Two Europes”, Journal of Refugee Studies 16 (September 2003) 336-358.
Jørgen Carling and María Hernández-Carretero. “Protecting Europe and Protecting Migrants? Strategies for Managing Unauthorised Migration from Africa”, The British Journal of Politics & International Relations 13:1 (2011) 42–58.
Michael Dummett, On Immigration and Refugees (New York: Routledge, 2001) particularly Chapters 4, 6, 7, 8.
Klaus Eder, “Europe’s Borders: The Narrative Construction of the Boundaries of Europe”, European Journal of Social Theory 9 (May 2006): 255-271.
Ethnic and Racial Studies 28:3 (2005) [special issue on migration and citizenship]
Madeline Garlick, “The EU Discussions on Extraterritorial Processing: Solution or Conundrum?” International Journal of Refugee Law (October 2006).
Terri E. Givens, Gary P. Freeman and David L. Leal (eds.), Immigration policy and security : U.S., European, and Commonwealth perspectives (New York, NY: Routledge, 2009). JV6483 .I5545 2009
Emma Haddad and Ebooks Corporation, The Refugee in International Society Between Sovereigns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Sara Hamood, “EU–Libya Cooperation on Migration: A Raw Deal for Refugees and Migrants?” Journal of Refugee Studies 21:1 (2008) 19-42
Teresa Hayter, Open Borders: The Case against Immigration Controls (London: Pluto Press, 2004) 149-172.
International Journal of Refugee Law 18:3-4 (2006) [several articles on Europe]
Michael Jandl, “Irregular Migration, Human Smuggling, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union”, International Migration Review, 41:2 (2007) 291 – 315.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 28:4 (October 2002). Special Issue on EU Enlargement and East-West Migration.
Lena Karamanidou and Liza Schuster, “Realizing One’s Rights under the 1951 Convention 60 Years On: A Review of Practical Constraints on Accessing Protection in Europe”, Journal of Refugee Studies 25 (2012): 169-192.
Michael Marrus, The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 1985).
Elizabeth Mestheneos and Elizabeth Ioannidi, “Obstacles to Refugee Integration in the European Union Member States”, Journal of Refugee Studies 15 (2002) 304-320.
Refugees Studies Centre, Europe: Fortress or Refugee? – Forced Migration Review 23 (May 2005).
Christopher Rudolph, National security and immigration: policy development in the United States and Western Europe since 1945 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006). MENZIES JV6271 .R83 2006
Liza Schuster, “Common Sense or Racism? The Treatment of Asylum-Seekers in Europe”, Patterns of Prejudice 37:3 (2003) 233-256.
Liza Schuster, “The Exclusion of Asylum Seekers in Europe’, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society Working Paper No. 1 (2004).
Liza Schuster, “The Realities of a New Asylum Paradigm” , Centre on Migration, Policy and Society Working Paper No. 20 (2005).
Sarah Spencer (ed.), The Politics of Migration: Managing Opportunity, Conflict and Change (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). See chapters on “Muslims and the Politics of Difference” and “Migration and the Welfare State in Europe”.
Niklaus Steiner, “Arguing about Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates in Europe” in Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney and Gil Loescher, Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights (New York: Routledge, 2003) 179-196.
Eiko R. Thielemann, ER 2004, ‘Why asylum policy harmonisation undermines refugee burden-sharing’, European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 6, pp. 47–65.
Eiko R. Thielemann and Nadine El-Enany, “Refugee Protection as a Collective Action Problem: is EU shrinking its responsibilities?”, European Security, 19 (2010) 209–229.
Theo Veenkamp, Alessandra Buonfino and Tom Bentley, People Flow: Managing migration in a New European Commonwealth (See summary and discussion papers from OpenDemocracy).
M. A. Vachudová, “Eastern Europe as Gatekeeper: The Immigration and Asylum Policies of an Enlarging European Union” in Peter Andreas and Timothy Snyder (eds), The Wall Around the West: state borders and immigration controls in North America and Europe (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000).
Michael Welch & Liza Schuster, “Detention of Asylum Seekers in the UK, France, Germany, and Italy: A Critical View of the Globalizing Culture of Control”, Criminal Justice 5:4 (2005) 331-355.

Suggested Reading

Alperhan Babacan, “Securing Borders: Interdiction and Deterrence in Australia and Canada”, in Alperhan Babacan and Linda Briskman (eds.), Asylum seekers: international perspectives on interdiction and deterrence (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008) 28-44.
Madeleine Byrne, “Exporting the Border: Immigration Detention and “Juxtaposed Controls”, in Alperhan Babacan and Linda Briskman (eds.), Asylum seekers: international perspectives on interdiction and deterrence (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008) 45-63.
Mary Crock and Ben Saul, Future Seekers II: Refugees and the Law in Australia (Annandale: The Federation Press, 2006) chapter 7.
DIMIA, Refugee and Humanitarian Issues: Australia’s Response, June 2005.
Michael Grewcock, “Australia’s ongoing border wars”, Race and Class 54:3 (2013) 10-32.
John Howard, “Announcement of Border Protection Policy”, Observation City, Scarborough, Perth, 23 October 2001. Analyse in conjunction with another article.
James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration
(Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
William Maley, “Refugees” in Robert Manne (ed.), The Howard Years (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2004) 144-168.
Philip Marfleet, Refugees in a Global Era (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) Chapters 11-12.
Peter Mares, Borderline: Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1994).
Anne McNevin, “The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia”, Australian Journal of Political Science 42:4 (December 2007) 611 – 630.
Brett Neilson, “Between governance and sovereignty: remaking the borderscape to Australia’s north”, Local-Global journal, 8 (2010) http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=zc62z66amoz1
Suvendrini Perera, “A Line in the Sea”, Race & Class 44, no. 2 (2002): 23-39.
———. “A Pacific Zone? (in)Security, Sovereignty, and Stories of the Pacific Borderscape”, in Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr (eds.) Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
Michael Pugh, “Drowning not Waving: Boat People and Humanitarianism at Sea” Journal of Refugee Studies 17:1 (2004) 50-69.
Savitri Taylor, “Offshore Barriers to Asylum Seeker Movement: The Exercise of Power without Responsibility?”, in J. McAdam (ed), Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008) 93-127
Savitri Taylor, “The impact of Australian–PNG border management co-operation on refugee protection” Local-Global journal, 8 (2010) http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=zc62z66amoz1
Scott Watson, The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration: Digging Moats and Sinking Boats (Hoboken: Routledge, 2009) .
Leanne Weber, “Policing the Virtual Border: Punitive Preemption in Australian Offshore Migration Control”, Social Justice 34, no. 2 (2007): 77-92.
Historical Perspectives
Mary Crock, “Judging Refugees: The Clash of Power and Institutions in the Development of Australian Refugee Law”, Sydney Law Review 26:1 (March 2004).
Mary Crock and Ben Saul, Future Seekers II: Refugees and the Law in Australia (Annandale: The Federation Press, 2006) chapter 10.
Graeme Hugo, “From Compassion to Compliance? Trends in Refugee and Humanitarian
Migration in Australia”, GeoJournal 56:1 (March 2002) 27-37.
Ann-Mari Jordens, Redefining Australians: immigration, citizenship, and national identity (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995).
Ann-Mari Jordens, Alien to Citizen: settling migrants in Australia, 1945-75 (St. Leonards N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian Archives, 1997).
James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera (Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007) Chapter 3.
Binoy Kampmark, “Spying for Hitler and Working for Bin Laden: Comparative
Australian Discourses on Refugees”, Journal of Refugee Studies 19:1 (2006) 1-21.
Jackie King, “Australia and Canada compared: the reaction to the Kosovar crisis” 15 (2003) AJHR.
Don McMaster, “Asylum-seekers and the insecurity of a nation”, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 56:2 (July 2002) 279-290.
Klaus Neumann, “Providing a ‘home for the oppressed’? historical perspectives on Australian responses to refugees”, 14 (2003) AJHR.
Klaus Neumann, Refuge Australia: Australia’s Humanitarian Record (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004).
David Palmer, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the Case of Papuan Asylum-Seekers”,
Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52:4 (2006) 576-603.
David Palmer, “The Values Shaping Australian Asylum Policy: The Views of Policy Insiders’. Australian Journal of Public Administration 67:3 (2008) 307–320.
Chelsea Piper Rodd, “Boats and Borders: asylum seekers and elections, 1977 and 2001” in Dean Lusher and Nick Haslam (eds), Yearning to Breathe: Seeking Asylum in Australia (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2007) 35-47.
Dr Barry York, “Australia and Refugees, 1901-2002: An Annotated Chronology Based on Official Sources”, Chronologies ONline, Parliamentary Library (16 June 2003). For reference not article analysis.
Detaining Asylum Seekers
Alison Bashford & Carolyn Strange, “Asylum–Seekers and National Histories of Detention”, Australian Journal of Politics and History 48:4 (2002) 509-527.
Frank Brennan, Tampering with Asylum: a universal humanitarian problem (St Lucia: UQP, 2007) Chapter 4.
Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, “The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer: Migration and Detention in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand”, International Migration 42:1 (2004): 43-44.
Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering, “The Violence of Refugee Incarceration”,
in P. Scraton and J. McCulloch (eds.), The Violence of Incarceration (London: Routledge, 2008). CHIFLEY HV9025 .V56 2009
Alison Bashford & Carolyn Strange, “Asylum–Seekers and National Histories of Detention”, Australian Journal of Politics and History 48:4 (2002) 509-527.
Janet Phillips and Adrienne Millbank, “The Detention and Removal of Asylum Seekers”, E-brief, Parliamentary Library (5 July 2005). For reference not article analysis.
Janet Phillips and Catherine Lorimer, “Women and Children in Immigration Detention”, E-brief, Parliamentary Library (13 October 2003, updated 23 November 2005). For reference not article analysis.
Joint Standing Committee on Migration, “Inquiry into immigration detention in Australia”, 25 May 2009.
http://www.aph.gov.au/House/committee/mig/detention/report2.htm