Immigrants and Minorities
Volume 36, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 87-104

Failing ‘Abyan’, ‘Golestan’ and ‘the Estonian Mother’: Refugee Women, Reproductive Coercion and the Australian State (Article)

Kevin C.* , Agutter K.
  • a History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
  • b Department of History, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Abstract

In September and October 2015, the story of detained Somali refugee ‘Abyan’ unfolded in the Australian media. A victim of rape on Nauru and seeking an abortion that could not be obtained on the island nation, Abyan was escorted to Sydney where she was to attend an abortion clinic. She was ultimately returned to Nauru without having had an abortion. This paper situates Abyan’s story alongside other stories from Nauru and in a longer history of reproductive coercion in Australian Immigration Department accommodation since the Second World War. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Author Keywords

Refugees reproductive coercion biopower femina sacer Immigration

Index Keywords

Domestic Violence abortion refugee Australia Mass Media New South Wales Sydney [New South Wales] womens status immigrant population
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048328774&doi=10.1080%2f02619288.2018.1471852&partnerID=40&md5=0ae0c4d38f37cc1d3c7acd4b64f51c18
DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2018.1471852
ISSN: 02619288
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English