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Marion Le OAM

THE BIG QUESTION. What do you make of boatpeople who threaten to burn their boats, go on hunger strikes and coach children to make impassioned pleas to compel countries to give them refuge? Are these actions effective, ethical or legitimate forms of protest? If you were the Australian Immigration

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Marion Le OAM

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    1. Marion Le OAM Migration Agent Human Rights Advocate ANU Graduate in Theology and History Historian Restaurateur Recipient of the Order of Australia Medal

    2. THE BIG QUESTION What do you make of boatpeople who threaten to burn their boats, go on hunger strikes and coach children to make impassioned pleas to compel countries to give them refuge? Are these actions effective, ethical or legitimate forms of protest? If you were the Australian Immigration Minister how would you respond to such demands?

    3. Refugee Dehumanization and Resistance Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben Theoretical Offerings of Agamben Bare Life and Homo Sacer State of Exception Examples: Guantanamo Bay Minasa Bone Detention Centres Humanitarian Agencies

    4. Who is Giorgio Agamben? Professor of Aesthetics, University of Verona, Italy Major Works: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998) State of Exception (2003) Remnants of Auschwitz (2002)

    5. Arendt and Agamben ARENDT Contradictions in the rights discourse The right to have rights AGAMBEN Neo-Arendtian? Bare Life and Homo Sacer State of Exception

    6. Bare Life and Guantanamo Bay Indefinite Detention Suspension of the Law Reduction to Bare Life

    7. State of Exception I

    8. State of Exception II

    9. State of Exception III

    11. Coffee-Dependence-State of Exception Analogy

    12. Minasa Bone “The Minasa Bone, the boat that arrived illegally near Melville Island on 4 November, has returned to Indonesia following its escort back to international waters…” - Press Release, 2003

    13. Detention Centres Shayan Badraie, 2001 Conditions Cornelia Rau

    14. Humanitarian Agencies

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