ABSTRACT

This conclusion provides concluding thoughts on key ideas discussed in this book. The book examines how an improbable set of measures surfaced in society, emanating from Australia, creating border security's world, which is now an export policy model selectively migrating back to Europe and North America. It explores how, via the continual co-presence of the threat environment, the arrival of threats from global space and the background ideal of secured circulation, border security emerged as a unilateral projection of national sovereignty in global space. Excision and offshore processing remain durably legal in Australian law to the time of writing. The legality of offshore detention was most recently upheld by a decision of the High Court of Australia (HCA) that ruled that offshore detention was lawful. Small groups of committed Australians have waged effective onshore campaigns against the cruelty of offshore detention, and its disproportionate impact on children and on women.