COVID-19 and sites of confinement: Public health, disposable lives and legal accountability in immigration detention and aged care

IF 1.2 Q1 LAW

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI:10.53637/GELR7037

S. Dehm, C. Loughnan, L. Steele

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Abstract

The global COVID-19 pandemic starkly revealed the underlying structural harms and produced vulnerabilities for people living in closed congregate settings like immigration detention centres (‘IDCs’) and residential aged care facilities (‘RACFs’). This article compares the Australian legal regimes that regulate IDCs and RACFs, conceptualising both as authorising and enabling sites of control, confinement and social isolation. We argue that specific COVID-19 measures have intensified a logic of social exclusion and disposability towards people in IDCs and RACFs. Through comparing recent COVID-19 litigation, the article explores the possibilities and limitations of engaging legal strategies to achieve social reform and legal accountability within both sites of confinement. Ultimately, we suggest that such COVID-19 litigation has the greatest possibility of advancing social justice when it is embedded in a broader politics of de-incarceration and abolition oriented towards political inclusion, public health and building more equitable and just communities. © 2021, University of New South Wales Law Journal. All rights reserved.

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2019冠状病毒病与禁闭场所:移民拘留和老年护理中的公共卫生、一次性生命和法律问责

全球新冠肺炎大流行清楚地揭示了潜在的结构性危害，并为生活在移民拘留中心（“IDC”）和养老院（“RACF”）等封闭聚集环境中的人们带来了脆弱性。本文比较了澳大利亚监管IDCs和RACF的法律制度，将其概念化为授权和启用控制、禁闭和社会隔离场所。我们认为，新冠肺炎的具体措施强化了对IDC和RACF人群的社会排斥和处置逻辑。通过比较最近的新冠肺炎诉讼，文章探讨了在两个监禁场所采用法律策略实现社会改革和法律问责的可能性和局限性。最终，我们认为，当此类新冠肺炎诉讼嵌入更广泛的去监禁和废除政治，以实现政治包容、公共卫生和建设更公平公正的社区时，它最有可能促进社会正义。©2021，新南威尔士大学法律期刊。保留所有权利。

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