Helena Zeweri

Between Care and Criminality

Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines social welfareâ s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. The book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829022
• ISBN-10: 1978829027
• Artikelnr.: 67789023

Autorenporträt

HELENA ZEWERI is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver and affiliate faculty with the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. 

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction: An Emergent Regime of
Truth                                                                        
Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage
Prevention                                                                    
Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced
Marriage Scenario Planning          
Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in
Prevention Work          
Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical
Narratives                                               
Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of
Displacement           
Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State                     
           
Acknowledgements
Notes
References                                                                                                     
           
Index