Configuring Violence: Governing Family, Marriage and Migration in Australian Social Welfare

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dc.contributor.advisorFaubion, James Den_US
dc.creatorZeweri, Helenaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-18T13:52:20Zen_US
dc.date.available2020-02-18T13:52:20Zen_US
dc.date.created2020-05en_US
dc.date.issued2020-02-17en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2020en_US
dc.date.updated2020-02-18T13:52:20Zen_US
dc.descriptionThis thesis has been embargoed for a 2 year period. It will be released 2025-02-17.en_US
dc.description.abstractUsing qualitative ethnographic methods over the course of 14 months in Melbourne, Australia, this study focuses on the institutional politics, ethical dilemmas, and knowledge practices through which forced marriage was conceived and contested as a new category of culturally specific violence across social welfare, law enforcement, and migrant community spaces. Unlike other forms of gender-based violence that have become objects of national concern in liberal states, forced marriage brings together questions of social welfare and humanitarian reason with questions of migrant mobility, state sovereignty, and citizenship. I argue that this new category of violence was shaped by the demands of the criminal justice, immigration, and social welfare systems which each represented Muslim migrant familial relations—both domestic and transnational—as social problems in competing ways. This study demonstrates how logics of risk, threat, care, and concern work simultaneously to produce neocolonial social policies in settler colonial liberal contexts confronting the human aftermath of global displacement.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationZeweri, Helena. "Configuring Violence: Governing Family, Marriage and Migration in Australian Social Welfare." (2020) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108068">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/108068</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/108068en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectSocial Policyen_US
dc.subjectAustraliaen_US
dc.subjectIslamen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectMarriageen_US
dc.subjectKinshipen_US
dc.subjectSettler Colonialismen_US
dc.subjectLiberalismen_US
dc.subjectHumanitarianismen_US
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen_US
dc.titleConfiguring Violence: Governing Family, Marriage and Migration in Australian Social Welfareen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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