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Between Care and Criminality: Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare [Paperback / softback]

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"Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare's encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the nameof care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship"--

Between Care and Criminality examines Australian social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in an era of intensified border control. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how social welfare practitioners carry out a migrant-targeted social policy designed to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law which criminalized the practice.


Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.

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"This exquisitely nuanced ethnography takes anti-carceral feminism to new heights! In tracing how 'coercive violence' amongst migrant families in Australia comes to be defined and policed, Zeweri demonstrates how Muslim women are still being used to justify anti-immigrant policies, whether they are framed as victim or threat. Most importantly, she shows that intimate forms of violence cannot be understood outside the violence of war, displacement and detention."    - Miriam Ticktin (author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France) "Between Care and Criminality offers unique insights into how social policies are lived on the ground by frontline workers, community leaders, and the young people who they target. The book resists the static portrayals of forced marriage in providing empirical examples of families who negotiate tensions surrounding marriage decisions within the context of family dynamics." - Reva Jaffe-Walter (author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth) "Between Care and Community, a well-documented, well researched analysis of forced marriage prevention policy, both informs and unsettles. Helena Zeweri makes a real contribution to studies on the anthropology of marriage and biopolitics of intimacy, and poses important questions concerning first generation migrant women and notions of family, culture, and the domestic." - Frances Julia Riemer (author of Working at the Margins: Moving Off Welfare in America)

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                     
           
Acknowledgments
Notes

References                                                                   
                                              
Index
 
HELENA ZEWERI is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British ColumbiaVancouver and affiliate faculty with the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.