Amy Nethery

Amy Nethery is an adjunct research fellow at the ISR, and a PhD candidate at the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights at Deakin University. Her thesis is an examination of the social and political functions of immigration detention centres in Australia. In this thesis she undertakes a conventional policy analysis of immigration detention, develops a history of administrative incarceration in Australia, explores the role of the executive in immigration decision-making, and investigates the legal question of punishment in administrative detention. Her research interests include political responses to forced migration; the history of incarceration; and theories of bureaucracy and governance relating to national boundaries.