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Networks play an important role in the Indigenous rights movement’s strategies and in Indigenous groups’ engagements with industry actors, the State, and NGOs. We seek to extend the concept of Governance Generating Networks (GGN) to incorporate Indigenous grassroots movements, and evaluate multiscale interactions and processes of network-generated governance across scales. We compare the NoDAPL movement led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the U.S. with grassroots Indigenous-environmentalist networks of water defenders in the Komi Republic, Russia. These GGNs emerged to protest oil pipelines within two contrasting sociopolitical systems, yet demonstrate substantial similarities in respect to local grievances and global engagement. We find that the resonance of these movements across scales was substantial. These reactions exhibited dissonance between scales, when national and regional actors responded in diverging ways. The two Indigenous-led movements were also able to amplify their agendas and transfer strategic alliances to other places and issues. Graphical Abstract
Maria S. Tysiachniouk; Leah S. Horowitz; Varvara V. Korkina; Andrey N. Petrov. Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: the NoDAPL and Komi movements. Environmental Politics 2020, 30, 895 -917.
AMA StyleMaria S. Tysiachniouk, Leah S. Horowitz, Varvara V. Korkina, Andrey N. Petrov. Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: the NoDAPL and Komi movements. Environmental Politics. 2020; 30 (6):895-917.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria S. Tysiachniouk; Leah S. Horowitz; Varvara V. Korkina; Andrey N. Petrov. 2020. "Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia: the NoDAPL and Komi movements." Environmental Politics 30, no. 6: 895-917.
This article examines the power relations that unfold when Indigenous-led struggles invoke settler-colonial law toward protection from industry’s impacts. Building on Critical Race Theory, I posit a ‘triple-helical’ relationship between law, power, and ideology, which coproduce one another, mediated by nudges from individual agents. I argue that the triple-helix of Indigenous rights to protection from industry’s impacts has stagnated, due to industrial capitalism’s pushback through social regularization processes as well as its capture of formal and informal regulators and of discourses and ideologies. I conclude with a research agenda for applying the triple-helix framework to Indigenous-led engagements with industry.
Leah S Horowitz. Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix. Progress in Human Geography 2020, 1 .
AMA StyleLeah S Horowitz. Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix. Progress in Human Geography. 2020; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S Horowitz. 2020. "Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix." Progress in Human Geography , no. : 1.
The paper examines interactions of oil companies and reindeer herders in the tundra of the Russian Arctic. We focus on governance arrangements that have an impact on the sustainability of oil production and reindeer herding. We analyze a shift in benefit-sharing arrangements between oil companies and Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders in Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO), Russia, as an evolution of the herders’ rights, defined as the intertwined co-production of legal processes, ideologies, and power relations. Semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis demonstrate that in NAO, benefit-sharing shifted from paternalism (dependent on herders’ negotiation skills) to company-centered social responsibility (formalized compensation rules). This shift was enabled by the adoption of a formal methodology for calculating income lost due to extractive projects and facilitated by the regional government’s efforts to develop reindeer-herding. While laws per se did not change, herders’ ability to access compensation and markets increased. This paper shows that even when ideologies of indigeneity are not influential, the use of existing laws and convergence of the government’s and Indigenous groups’ economic interests may shift legal processes and power relations toward greater rights for Indigenous groups.
Maria Tysiachniouk; Laura Henry; Svetlana Tulaeva; Leah Horowitz. Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9025 .
AMA StyleMaria Tysiachniouk, Laura Henry, Svetlana Tulaeva, Leah Horowitz. Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (21):9025.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Tysiachniouk; Laura Henry; Svetlana Tulaeva; Leah Horowitz. 2020. "Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia." Sustainability 12, no. 21: 9025.
The governance of extractive industries has become increasingly globalized. International conventions and multi-stakeholder institutions set out rules and standards on a range of issues, such as environmental protection, human rights, and Indigenous rights. Companies’ compliance with these global rules may minimize risks for investors and shareholders, while offering people at sites of extraction more leverage. Although the Russian state retains a significant stake in the oil and gas industries, Russian oil and gas companies have globalized as well, receiving foreign investment, participating in global supply chains, and signing on to global agreements. We investigate how this global engagement has affected Nenets Indigenous communities in Yamal, an oil- and gas-rich region in the Russian Arctic, by analyzing Indigenous protests and benefit-sharing arrangements. Contrary to expectations, we find that Nenets Indigenous communities have not been empowered by international governance measures, and also struggle to use domestic laws to resolve problems. In Russia, the state continues to play a significant role in determining outcomes for Indigenous communities, in part by working with Indigenous associations that are state allies. We conclude that governance generating networks in the region are under-developed.
Svetlana A. Tulaeva; Maria S. Tysiachniouk; Laura A. Henry; Leah S. Horowitz. Globalizing Extraction and Indigenous Rights in the Russian Arctic: The Enduring Role of the State in Natural Resource Governance. Resources 2019, 8, 179 .
AMA StyleSvetlana A. Tulaeva, Maria S. Tysiachniouk, Laura A. Henry, Leah S. Horowitz. Globalizing Extraction and Indigenous Rights in the Russian Arctic: The Enduring Role of the State in Natural Resource Governance. Resources. 2019; 8 (4):179.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSvetlana A. Tulaeva; Maria S. Tysiachniouk; Laura A. Henry; Leah S. Horowitz. 2019. "Globalizing Extraction and Indigenous Rights in the Russian Arctic: The Enduring Role of the State in Natural Resource Governance." Resources 8, no. 4: 179.
Because of their close relationships to the land, water, and resources therein, and their marginalized social and economic positions, Indigenous peoples living in current or former settler colonies are particularly vulnerable to mining’s impacts, yet have the potential to benefit from its opportunities as well. This paper reviews the literature on large-scale mining projects’ relationships to Indigenous peoples in post/colonial contexts, focusing on Australia, Canada, Finland, Greenland, New Caledonia, Norway, and Sweden, in the aim of generating insights from comparative perspectives. First, we discuss differences in legal regimes governing Indigenous peoples’ rights and implications of those rights for negotiations over mining projects. Next, we examine, in turn, mining activities’ various impacts − environmental, economic, social − and how they specifically affect Indigenous communities. Finally, we explore ways that Indigenous communities living in a post/colonial context have addressed large-scale mining projects’ impacts by engaging with them, through both negotiation and resistance. We conclude by summarizing our findings on the relationships of Indigenous peoples to large-scale mining projects in the focus countries and identifying what gaps remain in the literature, and we provide thoughts as to how future research could address those gaps.
Leah S. Horowitz; Arn Keeling; Francis Lévesque; Thierry Rodon; Stephan Schott; Sophie Thériault. Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives. The Extractive Industries and Society 2018, 5, 404 -414.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz, Arn Keeling, Francis Lévesque, Thierry Rodon, Stephan Schott, Sophie Thériault. Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives. The Extractive Industries and Society. 2018; 5 (3):404-414.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz; Arn Keeling; Francis Lévesque; Thierry Rodon; Stephan Schott; Sophie Thériault. 2018. "Indigenous peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives." The Extractive Industries and Society 5, no. 3: 404-414.
Indigenous women’s social positionings are complex and dynamic, informed by culture and post-colonial politics; gender and ethnicity intersect with age, socio-economic status, and social hierarchies. This article uses an ethnographic study of Kanak women’s engagements with mining in New Caledonia, to examine three questions. First, how do indigenous women’s dynamic social positionings shape their possibilities for negotiation with and resistance to industry? Secondly, how do women’s possibilities for engagement in turn shape the wider community’s possibilities for negotiation with or resistance to industry? Finally, what is the companies’ role in shaping women’s possibilities for such engagement? I draw on the critical feminist concept of intersectionality, bringing this into conversation with concepts of symbolic and cultural violence and hegemony. Over time, women began to actively negotiate with and resist industrial projects, in line with growing gender equity in New Caledonia, but the mining companies referenced – and thus reinforced – women’s dominated social position as an excuse to sideline their concerns, a type of cultural violence I term ‘retrogradation.’ Thus, this article recognizes indigenous women’s increasing agency in engaging with external actors, such as industrial projects, yet also shows how outsiders can commit retrogradation to further marginalize young, rural, poor community women. I discuss how such marginalization limits options for the larger group. Finally, I point to a way out of oppression, through transformation of hegemonic ideologies.
Leah S. Horowitz. ‘It shocks me, the place of women’: intersectionality and mining companies’ retrogradation of indigenous women in New Caledonia. Gender, Place & Culture 2017, 24, 1419 -1440.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz. ‘It shocks me, the place of women’: intersectionality and mining companies’ retrogradation of indigenous women in New Caledonia. Gender, Place & Culture. 2017; 24 (10):1419-1440.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz. 2017. "‘It shocks me, the place of women’: intersectionality and mining companies’ retrogradation of indigenous women in New Caledonia." Gender, Place & Culture 24, no. 10: 1419-1440.
This commentary provides an empirical example that supports Briassoulis’s ‘response assemblage’ (RA) conceptualization but also suggests an extension of this framework. It uses an example of different approaches to protecting New Caledonia’s coral reefs—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage List and Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous group targeting a multinational mining and refinery project—to demonstrate that RAs, as responses to specific environmental threats, may be not only parts of multiplicities (complex socioecological systems) but multiple themselves. Further, it shows that distinct RAs may compete and even come into conflict. Moreover, this example demonstrates the crucial role of power—or perceptions of power—in determining the outcomes of RAs, and in particular, of the interactions of multiple RAs.
Leah S Horowitz. Power, cooptation, and the multiplicity of response assemblages. Dialogues in Human Geography 2017, 7, 192 -196.
AMA StyleLeah S Horowitz. Power, cooptation, and the multiplicity of response assemblages. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2017; 7 (2):192-196.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S Horowitz. 2017. "Power, cooptation, and the multiplicity of response assemblages." Dialogues in Human Geography 7, no. 2: 192-196.
Leah Horowitz. Grassroots Environmental Governance. Grassroots Environmental Governance 2016, 1 .
AMA StyleLeah Horowitz. Grassroots Environmental Governance. Grassroots Environmental Governance. 2016; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah Horowitz. 2016. "Grassroots Environmental Governance." Grassroots Environmental Governance , no. : 1.
This paper uses a case study of fisheries co-management in Hawaii to explore barriers to community participation in resource management and the reasons for these impediments. Our study suggests that while fishers may disobey regulations to maximise personal gain, they may also understand the necessity for regulations and desire more stringent enforcement. This seeming paradox reflects the tension between a recognised need to conserve resources through restricting harvests and competitive pressure among individual fishers. When fishers observe insufficient enforcement on the part of government agencies, this may fuel an already present sense of disrespect for and distrust of the government, inhibiting community participation in co-management efforts. This study suggests that rather than attempting to directly encourage community members to participate in co-management efforts, managers should instead focus on enhancing enforcement to alleviate communities' frustration and disrespect. Thus, enhanced enforcement efforts may boost participation in management activities and lead to a more sustainably managed resource.
Lauren M. Ballou; Nathan Albritton; Leah S. Horowitz. Enforcement encourages participation in resource management: explaining a fisheries management paradox in Hawaii. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 2016, 57, 379 -392.
AMA StyleLauren M. Ballou, Nathan Albritton, Leah S. Horowitz. Enforcement encourages participation in resource management: explaining a fisheries management paradox in Hawaii. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 2016; 57 (3):379-392.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLauren M. Ballou; Nathan Albritton; Leah S. Horowitz. 2016. "Enforcement encourages participation in resource management: explaining a fisheries management paradox in Hawaii." Asia Pacific Viewpoint 57, no. 3: 379-392.
This article draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of arborescent and rhizomic assemblages to examine encounters between large-scale conservation and grassroots resistance to industry. I explore how the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage listing of New Caledonia's reefs contributed to the demise of Rhéébù Nùù, an indigenous activist group that had been targeting a multinational mining project. I also interrogate how an assemblage's form enables certain modalities of power while constraining others and how these differences in power modalities inform relationships between types of assemblages. Mistakenly expecting assistance in protecting their coral reef from mining impacts, Rhéébù Nùù relinquished the coercive power inherent to their rhizomic form in favor of participation in UNESCO's arborescent structure via World Heritage “management committees”—a globally promoted, but locally inappropriate, comanagement diagram that targeted local fishing activities despite an absence of overfishing. Thus, this article argues that rhizomic structures have unique means of influence, exercised through particular modalities of power, which might be lost through cooptation into arborescent assemblages that exercise different modalities of power and might employ locally inappropriate diagrams. Ultimately, conservation does not only result in the extension of state powers, as the literature has shown; as this study demonstrates, it can surreptitiously support the extension of environmentally damaging industrial development at the expense of grassroots action.
Leah S. Horowitz. Rhizomic Resistance Meets Arborescent Assemblage: UNESCO World Heritage and the Disempowerment of Indigenous Activism in New Caledonia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2015, 106, 167 -185.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz. Rhizomic Resistance Meets Arborescent Assemblage: UNESCO World Heritage and the Disempowerment of Indigenous Activism in New Caledonia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2015; 106 (1):167-185.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz. 2015. "Rhizomic Resistance Meets Arborescent Assemblage: UNESCO World Heritage and the Disempowerment of Indigenous Activism in New Caledonia." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 106, no. 1: 167-185.
Leah S. Horowitz. Cap Bocage: when a mountain fell into the sea. The Journal of Pacific History 2015, 50, 1 -2.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz. Cap Bocage: when a mountain fell into the sea. The Journal of Pacific History. 2015; 50 (3):1-2.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz. 2015. "Cap Bocage: when a mountain fell into the sea." The Journal of Pacific History 50, no. 3: 1-2.
Ecological impacts of deer overbrowsing often lead resource managers to recommend deer control through hunting, which may be strongly opposed by local residents. Adaptive impact management argues that understanding wildlife impacts of concern to the public can improve wildlife management. However, research on public wildlife acceptance capacity for deer, and on support for hunting, has emphasized concerns about household impacts and deer well-being, general environmental beliefs and attitudes, and beliefs about consequences of hunting, but not public concerns about deer ecological impacts. Our survey of neighbors of urban wetlands shows that beliefs about deer ecological impacts are statistically significant predictors of deer acceptance capacity and of support for hunting, controlling for other factors. Including ecological-impact beliefs adds substantially to the explained variance in deer acceptance capacity, and slightly to the explained variance in support for hunting.
Branden B. Johnson; Leah S. Horowitz. Beliefs about Ecological Impacts Predict Deer Acceptance Capacity and Hunting Support. Society & Natural Resources 2014, 27, 915 -930.
AMA StyleBranden B. Johnson, Leah S. Horowitz. Beliefs about Ecological Impacts Predict Deer Acceptance Capacity and Hunting Support. Society & Natural Resources. 2014; 27 (9):915-930.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBranden B. Johnson; Leah S. Horowitz. 2014. "Beliefs about Ecological Impacts Predict Deer Acceptance Capacity and Hunting Support." Society & Natural Resources 27, no. 9: 915-930.
This paper expands our understandings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a form of roll‐out neoliberalism, building on analyses of CSR initiatives as elements of a capitalist system actively working to create its own social regularisation – to secure a socio‐politico‐economic context supporting capitalist development. Using an ethnographic analysis of the rise and fall of an indigenous protest group that targeted a multinational mining project in New Caledonia, this paper has two theoretical aims. First, it builds on literature that analyses neoliberalism as ‘articulating’ with particular politico‐economic conditions in order to argue that such articulation is also, necessarily, cultural. I describe how the mining company undercut and ultimately co‐opted local resistance, largely by successfully capturing culturally‐based ideologies of customary and indigenous legitimacy. Thus, neoliberalisation's articulations may involve attempts to capture not only formal but also informal regulation or regulators, through direct personal benefits and also indirectly through the capture of culturally valued ideologies. These ideologies, in turn, are caught up in culturally grounded hegemonic processes. This leads to the paper's second theoretical aim, which is to explore what happens when different forms of hegemony, based in distinct cultural formations, encounter each other as well as counter‐hegemonic forces. In engaging directly with customary authorities rather than exclusively with activists, the company re‐legitimised itself by delegitimising its activist opponents, repositioning them as subordinates within their own culturally informed social hierarchy, and reinstating customary authorities’ privileged hegemonic status. Thus, multiple, culturally distinct hegemonic processes may co‐exist and interact; here, they reinforced each other by suppressing counter‐hegemonic activities. However, some customary authorities still sympathised with the protestors’ aims and perceived potential threats from the company's expanding economic power. I end by suggesting that counter‐hegemonic possibilities reside in the perpetual dynamism of cultures.
Leah S Horowitz. Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2014, 40, 88 -101.
AMA StyleLeah S Horowitz. Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2014; 40 (1):88-101.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S Horowitz. 2014. "Culturally articulated neoliberalisation: corporate social responsibility and the capture of indigenous legitimacy in New Caledonia." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40, no. 1: 88-101.
Pierre-Yves Le Meur; Leah S. Horowitz; Thierry Mennesson. “Horizontal” and “vertical” diffusion: The cumulative influence of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) on mining policy-production in New Caledonia. Resources Policy 2013, 38, 648 -656.
AMA StylePierre-Yves Le Meur, Leah S. Horowitz, Thierry Mennesson. “Horizontal” and “vertical” diffusion: The cumulative influence of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) on mining policy-production in New Caledonia. Resources Policy. 2013; 38 (4):648-656.
Chicago/Turabian StylePierre-Yves Le Meur; Leah S. Horowitz; Thierry Mennesson. 2013. "“Horizontal” and “vertical” diffusion: The cumulative influence of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) on mining policy-production in New Caledonia." Resources Policy 38, no. 4: 648-656.
Critics of attempts to achieve consensus through Habermasian ‘communicative rationality’ dismiss this as unachievable due to participants' selfishness and irrationality, and the inevitability of power relations. Instead, Mouffe advocates ‘agonistic pluralism’, a dynamic process of continual debate grounded in mutual respect. In this paper I argue that, for this to succeed, we need to recognize and embrace the role of emotion in moral reasoning. Here, I examine a dispute over wetland management in suburban New Jersey. Each side articulated distinct understandings of what was and was not vulnerable, backed by emotional appeals partly based in self-interest but that also encompassed care and concern for others. Each side accused the other of being irrational and immoral, drawing ‘moral microboundaries’ between them. I conclude that participants in a public debate may not simply be pursing self-serving goals, nor might open communication resolve their differences. Instead, each may be deeply convinced that he or she is advocating the most rational and moral course of action. This questions the very notion of a unitary, potentially agreed-upon ‘common good’ and instead challenges us to attempt to grasp each other's moral worlds, and in particular the emotional bases of these, through the seeming oxymoron that I term ‘empathic agonism’.
Leah S Horowitz. Toward Empathic Agonism: Conflicting Vulnerabilities in Urban Wetland Governance. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2013, 45, 2344 -2361.
AMA StyleLeah S Horowitz. Toward Empathic Agonism: Conflicting Vulnerabilities in Urban Wetland Governance. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2013; 45 (10):2344-2361.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S Horowitz. 2013. "Toward Empathic Agonism: Conflicting Vulnerabilities in Urban Wetland Governance." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 45, no. 10: 2344-2361.
Leah S. Horowitz. Power, Profit, Protest: Grassroots Resistance to Industry in the Global North. Capitalism Nature Socialism 2012, 23, 20 -34.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz. Power, Profit, Protest: Grassroots Resistance to Industry in the Global North. Capitalism Nature Socialism. 2012; 23 (3):20-34.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz. 2012. "Power, Profit, Protest: Grassroots Resistance to Industry in the Global North." Capitalism Nature Socialism 23, no. 3: 20-34.
Leah S. Horowitz. Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses. Development and Change 2011, 42, 1379 -1391.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz. Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses. Development and Change. 2011; 42 (6):1379-1391.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz. 2011. "Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses." Development and Change 42, no. 6: 1379-1391.
Leah S. Horowitz. Translation Alignment: Actor-Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia. Antipode 2011, 44, 806 -827.
AMA StyleLeah S. Horowitz. Translation Alignment: Actor-Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia. Antipode. 2011; 44 (3):806-827.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeah S. Horowitz. 2011. "Translation Alignment: Actor-Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia." Antipode 44, no. 3: 806-827.
L. S. Horowitz; M. McPherson; Y. B. Saalmann. Rejoinder: Removing Barriers to the Emergence and Assessment of Claims of Gender-Based Persecution by Asylum Seekers in Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies 2011, 24, 349 -350.
AMA StyleL. S. Horowitz, M. McPherson, Y. B. Saalmann. Rejoinder: Removing Barriers to the Emergence and Assessment of Claims of Gender-Based Persecution by Asylum Seekers in Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2011; 24 (2):349-350.
Chicago/Turabian StyleL. S. Horowitz; M. McPherson; Y. B. Saalmann. 2011. "Rejoinder: Removing Barriers to the Emergence and Assessment of Claims of Gender-Based Persecution by Asylum Seekers in Australia." Journal of Refugee Studies 24, no. 2: 349-350.
Women’s experiences of violence often remain invisible or discounted in asylum law and practice. Gender is absent as an overt ground for protection under the Refugee Convention and readings of the Convention have commonly excluded it. Although Australia’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has acknowledged women’s special protection needs with instruments such as the Guidelines on Gender Issues for Decision Makers (DIAC 1996, 2010), the article investigates whether these are translating into practice. It examines ways in which women’s claims for asylum because of gender-based persecution (GBP) may be impeded in Australia. Drawing on feedback from major stakeholder groups, including asylum advocates, asylum seeking women, and DIAC, we suggest that at the time of our fieldwork (2005/2006) appropriate consideration of claims of GBP was generally still not evident within DIAC. We identify barriers to both the emergence and consideration of claims and suggest ways DIAC might improve gender sensitivity in the processing of asylum claims.
Melinda McPherson; Leah S. Horowitz; Dean Lusher; Sarah Di Giglio; Lucy E. Greenacre; Yuri B. Saalmann. Marginal Women, Marginal Rights: Impediments to Gender-Based Persecution Claims by Asylum-seeking Women in Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies 2011, 24, 323 -347.
AMA StyleMelinda McPherson, Leah S. Horowitz, Dean Lusher, Sarah Di Giglio, Lucy E. Greenacre, Yuri B. Saalmann. Marginal Women, Marginal Rights: Impediments to Gender-Based Persecution Claims by Asylum-seeking Women in Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2011; 24 (2):323-347.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMelinda McPherson; Leah S. Horowitz; Dean Lusher; Sarah Di Giglio; Lucy E. Greenacre; Yuri B. Saalmann. 2011. "Marginal Women, Marginal Rights: Impediments to Gender-Based Persecution Claims by Asylum-seeking Women in Australia." Journal of Refugee Studies 24, no. 2: 323-347.