ABSTRACT In 2015, the Australian government commissioned a telemovie as part of its strategic communication campaign to deter would-be asylum seekers from travelling to Australia unauthorised by boat. In this article we explore this film as one instance of state practices that seek to control migration at their borders, and a form of state messaging which uses gendered story-telling techniques and characterisations to do so. Officially termed ‘public information campaigns’ (PICs) by states or ‘information strategies’ by international organisations such as the UNHCR, the use of such practices has increased in volume, frequency and prominence in recent years. While there has been some academic attention to PICs, to date, the gendered dimensions of these campaigns have remained largely unexamined. In this article, we argue that a feminist analysis of PICs is critical to understanding both how state borders ‘gender’ refugee subjectivities as well as international law’s authorisation of the violence of state borders more generally. By allocating blame and responsibility on individual refugees and their gendered choices, rather than on state actions and state violence, the film reveals how the institution and policing of state borders simultaneously rest upon gendered imaginaries of refugee responsibilisation and the invisibilisation of state responsibility.

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电影作为一种反庇护技术：国际法、边界和难民主体性的性别化

摘要 2015 年，澳大利亚政府委托制作了一部电视电影，作为其战略宣传活动的一部分，以阻止潜在的寻求庇护者未经授权乘船前往澳大利亚。在本文中，我们将这部电影作为试图控制边境移民的国家实践的一个实例，以及一种使用性别故事讲述技术和特征来实现这一目标的国家信息传递形式。各国官方将其称为“公共信息运动”（PICs）或联合国难民署等国际组织称为“信息战略”，近年来此类做法的使用量、频率和重要性都有所增加。尽管 PIC 受到了一些学术关注，但迄今为止，这些运动的性别维度在很大程度上仍未得到检验。在本文中，我们认为，对 PIC 的女权主义分析对于理解国家边界如何“性别”难民主体性以及国际法更广泛地对国家边界暴力的授权至关重要。通过将责任和责任归咎于个别难民及其性别选择，而不是国家行为和国家暴力，这部电影揭示了国家边界的制度和治安如何同时依赖于难民责任的性别想象和国家责任的隐形化。