Negotiating migration, sentiment, and insecurity: Encounters with sadness and shame in Australia

Abstract

In 2005, Australians were witness to revelations about the treatment of two women caught up in the ‘border disorder’ around refugees and migrants, security and insecurity, citizenship and social inclusion in Australia. Receiving prominent coverage in the media, these are cases that alert us in particularly stark form to the existence of insecure migrant belonging in Australia, and the partiality and differential quality of integration for some, especially at a time of heightened ‘national security’. Specifically, I draw attention here to the manner in which facing up to these women’s stories provides insight into processes of national remembering and forgetting – revelation and concealment –..