Book Launch: The Borders of Violence

** This event will be held on Wednesday 18th December: if you registered for the earlier advertised date and can no longer attend, please just email marie.segrave@unimelb.edu.au **

Please join us for an evening of conversation as we launch The Borders of Violence: Temporary Migration and Domestic and Family Violence by Marie Segrave (Melbourne University) and Stefani Vasil (Australian Catholic University). 

The authors will be joined by Professor JaneMaree Maher (Monash University, Melbourne) and Professor Margaret Abraham (Hofstra University, New York). 

This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The analysis foregrounds how the state and the migration system both sustain and enable violence against women. In doing so this book demonstrates how structural violence is an insidious component of gendered violence – limiting and curtailing women’s safety. 

The Borders of Violence advances contemporary research on DFV by considering the role of the state and the migration system. It bridges different fields of scholarship to interrogate our knowledge about DFV and its impacts and improve our critical accounts of gender, structural violence and borders. It illuminates the ways in which temporary non-citizens are often silenced and/or their experiences are obfuscated by state processes, policies and practices, which are weaponised by perpetrators in countries of destination and origin, with impunity. 

An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of border criminology, criminology, sociology, politics, law and social policy. It offers key insights for professionals, policymakers, stakeholders and advocates working broadly to support temporary non-citizens and/or to address and eliminate violence against women.

The book can be purchased here where it is also available Open Access. 

This is a hybrid event. Attendees are welcome to join us in person or online via Zoom. 

Registration is required as places are limited. 

We look forward to seeing you there.