Starting panel 2, Anthea Vogl & David Carter on how people with HIV applying for a visa in Australia face a “medical border” with healthcare used as another layer of immigration control in an already restrictive system.
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Next up, Antje Missbach & Gerhard Hoffstaedter discuss hunger on board Rohingya refugee boats. They explain how hunger is as much a part of displacement as it is a reason for fleeing, with many refugees living in a state of prolonged ‘hunger fatigue’ due to lack of food on these long journeys.
And Rachid Benharrousse on Morocco, EU border externalisation and “proxy necropolitics” where lethal outcomes are discharged to a third state. By offering temporary recognition to migrants, Morocco creates a “zone of suspended personhood” by which migrants can survive, but can never settle.
Lastly, Cemile Gizem Dinçer offers a feminist understanding of care in border regimes, focusing on experiences of refugee women in Turkey: where seeking care from the state can risk immigration statuses, mutual care and support from the community is crucial for survival and an antidote to violence.
*Lastly, Tefsalem Habte Yemane discusses necropolitical compassion, rhetorical care and oppressive borders in the English Channel, with the state branding itself as ‘compassionate’ rescuer, despite creating the conditions for containment, smuggling/ trafficking, and ultimately deaths at the border.
