Between Care and Criminality by Helena Zeweri - 9781978829039

Between Care and CriminalityMarriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare\nAuthor(s): Helena Zeweri\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978829039, 978-1978829039\nSynopsis\nBetween Care and Criminality examines social welfares encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain.