ABSTRACT

Using an interdisciplinary approach of critical historical and border criminology, this paper sheds light on the continuity and durability of the violent gendered-racialised border regime impacting ‘undesirable migrants’. With a focus on Britain and Australia, this article argues that border policies and practices have been constructed and maintained since the nineteenth century to the present day (continuity) and able to withstand various pressures for change (durability). The importance of controlling and monitoring ‘un/desirability’ in this way must be understood in the socio-political and temporal context of twentieth-century nation-state design, which entrenches these border mechanisms within a ‘white patriarchal possession logic’, therefore ensuring their durability. The concept of ‘un/desirability’, as this article demonstrates, is an adaptable tool that enables transformative coloniality and is currently actualised through the narrative of a ‘humanitarian border’. This article achieves these aims by presenting multiple historical and contemporary examples. These cases, when read in isolation from each other, do not offer a comprehensive and longitudinal view of the border regime over time. However, when these examples are considered together, they provide evidence of the continuity and durability of the border.

摘要

使用批判历史和边境犯罪学的跨学科方法，本文阐明了影响“不受欢迎的移民”的暴力性别种族化边境制度的连续性和持久性。本文以英国和澳大利亚为重点，认为边界政策和实践从 19 世纪至今一直在构建和维护（连续性），并且能够承受各种变革压力（持久性）。必须在 20 世纪民族国家设计的社会政治和时间背景下理解以这种方式控制和监控“不受欢迎/可取性”的重要性，这将这些边界机制根植于“白人父权占有逻辑”中，从而确保它们的耐用性。正如本文所展示的，“不合需要”的概念，是一种适应性强的工具，可以实现变革性的殖民，目前通过“人道主义边界”的叙述来实现。本文通过展示多个历史和当代例子来实现这些目标。这些案例，当彼此孤立阅读时，并不能提供随着时间的推移对边境制度的全面和纵向的看法。然而，当这些例子一起考虑时，它们提供了边界的连续性和持久性的证据。