National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 A submission from the Australian Anthropological Society
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posted on 2023-10-19, 01:56 authored by Holly HighHolly High, Gillian Cowlishaw, Antje Missbach, Georgina Ramsay, Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Helen LeeNational Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014 A submission from the Australian Anthropological Society
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The National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention calls for (among other things) “submissions to the inquiry from … professionals who have experience and knowledge about the impact of immigration detention on children.” Anthropologists specialise in the study of human social and cultural diversity, especially social relations and cultural acquisition, so are well placed to comment on the interruption of normal social relations on growing children and their families that occurs with institutionalisation and marginalization. Our members research a diverse range of cultural and social formations through ethnographic fieldwork, which typically includes long-term immersion and participant-observation of particular human scenarios. Therefore, we can comment on immigration detention not only as an Australian issue, but as a global one. Here we draw on our members’ experience (detailed in Appendices 1, 2 and 3) of conditions experienced by children prior to migration — including torture, war, communal violence, family trauma, sexual violence, and abject poverty — and how these are compounded both in transit countries and after arrival in Australia. We also draw on the discipline’s relevant literature of situations that can be thought of comparable to immigration detention and the concepts anthropologists have developed to understand its long-term effects.Publication classification
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