Gender, Violence and Exploitation thematic group publications

Rubashkyn, E. & Cochrane, B. (accepted)‚ “Transphobia is what is keeping me hostage”, Extending understandings of detention within the global carceral regime. Special Issue: Rainbow Captives: 2SLGBTQ+ Experiences Within and Beyond Incarceration 

2025 

O’Donnell, S. (2025) Temporary Visa Holders and the Family Violence Provisions in Australia. Information sheet. CEVAW 

O’Donnell, S. (2025) Family Violence and Humanitarian Protection in Australia. Information Sheet. CEVAW 

Ozsoy, E. C., & Soykan, C. (2025). ‘We Are Not Leaving the Istanbul Convention’: Disappearance of Istanbul Convention from Turkiye and presence of unlikely feminist legal spaces in international law-making. Feminists@law, 13(2). 

Segrave, M., & Vasil, S. (2025). The Borders of Violence: Temporary Migration and Domestic and Family Violence. 

2024 

Anderson, B., Lundberg, K., & O‚ÄôDonnell, S. (2024). Embracing the Mess in Feminist Research: Insights From Posthumanism. Qualitative Inquiry. 

Anderson, B., Farmer, C., & Tyson, D. (2024). Police-Perpetrated Domestic and Family Violence: A Scoping Review of Australian and International Scholarship. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 

Foreign National Women in Prisons in India: Experiences, Negotiations and Resistance. Bosworth, M., Franko, K., Lee, M., & Mehta, R. (Eds.) (2024). Handbook on Border Criminology. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Clancey, A. & Ham, J. (2024). Anti-trafficking policing in Vancouver: The denial of crimes against Asian sex workers. In K. Roots, A. de Shalit & E. van der Meulen (Eds.), Trafficking Harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences. Fernwood Publishing. 

Cochrane, B., Smith, D., Kernott, D. & Spaaj, R. (2024) The Local “Salad Bar” of Hate: Global Hegemonic Masculinity in Australia’s Extreme Right. Men and Masculinities 

Dickie, M and Jones, L. (2024) The Silent Victim: shining a spotlight on the harsh reality of the visa cancellation process for women. 

Ham, J. (2024). Hypersexualisation and racialised erotic capital in sex work. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-15. 

Ham, J., Vicera, C. & Gbadago, J.J. (2024). Developing decolonial aesthetics with migrant domestic worker creative communities. In G.K. Bhambra, L. Mayblin, K. Medien & M. Viveros-Vigoya (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Global Sociology (pp.157-174). SAGE. 

James, D. (2024). Precarious labour geographies of working holiday makers: querying sustainability. Tourism Geographies, 1-19. 

Mehta, R. (2024). Women, (im)mobilities and ethical loneliness: re-defining 'justice' and 'sovereignty' through care. In Handbook on Border Criminology (pp. 267-281). Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Mehta, R., Abubasheer, A., Drake, G., & Padukka, W. (2024). Refugee and migrant women's pathways into and through prisons: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Criminology and Criminal Justice. 

O'Donnell, S. (2024) Punishable victims: Interrogating intersections between gender-based violence and punitive migration policies in Australia, Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9(2), 212-233 

O'Donnell, S., Anderson, B. and Lundberg, K. (2024) What’s mess got to do with it? A conceptual framework for researching borders and gendered violence. 

Rivas, L. (2024). A safe haven? Women’s experiences of violence in Australian immigration detention. Punishment & Society, 26(3), 547-565.  

Vasil, S. (2024). “I came here, and it got worse day by day”: Examining the intersections between migrant precarity and family violence among women with insecure migration status in Australia. Violence against women, 30(10), 2482-2510. 

Vasil, S., & Segrave, M. (2024). Beyond technology-facilitated abuse: Domestic and family violence and temporary migration. The British Journal of Criminology, 64(1), 175-193. 

2023 

Cochrane, B., Dixson, T. & Dixson, R. (2023) "Inhabiting Two Worlds At Once": Final Report on the Experiences of LGBTIQA+ Settlement in Australia. Report  

Ham, J. (2023). Anti-pandemic measures, labour rights, and the legibility of harm in domestic work. In P. Davies & M. Rowe (Eds.), Criminology of the Domestic (pp. 117-134). Routledge. 

Mehta, R. (2023). A Southern feminist approach to the criminology of mobility. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12(2), 1-12. 

Mehta, R. (2023). Mobility across borders, continuums of violence and resistance. In D. Chakraborty, D. A. Castillo, & K. Panjabi (Eds.), Centering Borders in Latin American and South Asian Contexts: Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production (pp. 25-40). Routledge. 

Mehta, R., & Aliverti, A. (2023). Southern perspectives on border criminology: introduction to the special issue. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12(2). 

Mehta, R., Drake, G., Abubasheer, A., & Padukka, W. (2023). Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Women in Prison: Pre-Prison Experiences and Post-Release Reintegration. Western Sydney University. 

Vasil, S. (2023). Understanding the nature of family violence against women with insecure migration status in Australia. Violence against women, 29(15-16), 3158-3181. 

Vasil, S. (2023, November). ‘I felt I had no-one to depend on but myself’: Examining how women with insecure migration status respond to domestic and family violence in Australia. In Women's Studies International Forum (Vol. 101, p. 102823) 

Vasil, S. (2023). Accessing Support for Domestic and Family Violence in the Context of Migrant Precarity: Women's Experiences in Victoria, Australia. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 55(3), 79-99. 

Wolff, L. & Cochrane, B. (2023) Knowability: The Unspoken Criteria in Refugee Status Determination for LGBTIQ+ Applicants in Australia. Sexualities 

2022 

Cochrane, B. and Wolff, L. (2022) Refugee and asylum-seeking women’s lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration. Citizenship Studies 

Cochrane, B. (2022), 'Women and crimmigration' In Women, Crime and Justice in Context: Contemporary Perspectives in Feminist Criminology from Australia and New Zealand (pp. 224-238). Routledge. 

Dehm, S., Loughnan, C., O'Donnell, S. and Silverstein, J. (2022) Policy Paper: Healthcare and the Health-Related Harms of Australia's Refugee Externalisation Policies‚ CONREP 

Ham, J. & Ceradoy, A. (2022). ‘God blessed me with employers who don’t starve their helpers’: Food insecurity and dehumanization in domestic work. Gender, Work & Organization, 29(3), 922-937.  

Ham, J., Gheorghiu, I. & Lestari, E. (2022). Migrant domestic workers, asylum-seekers and premonitions of anti-trafficking in Hong Kong. In K. Kempadoo & E. Shih (Eds.), White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking (pp. 253-266). Routledge. 

Gheorghiu, I. & Ham, J. (2022). Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews. The British Journal of Criminology, 63(1), 151-167.  

Henry, N., Vasil, S., Flynn, A., Kellard, K., & Mortreux, C. (2022). Technology-facilitated domestic violence against immigrant and refugee women: A qualitative study. Journal of interpersonal violence, 37(13-14), NP12634-NP12660 

Henry, N., Vasil, S., & Witt, A. (2022). Digital citizenship in a global society: a feminist approach. Feminist Media Studies, 22(8), 1972-1989. 

Mehta, R. (2022). Time is on my side: negotiating space and time in prison. In M. Bandyopadhyay, & R. Mehta (Eds.), Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India (pp. 194-212). Orient BlackSwan. 

O'Donnell, S. (2022) Living Death at the Intersection of Necropower and Disciplinary Power: A Qualitative Exploration of Racialised and Detained Groups in Australia, Critical Criminology, 30(2): 285-304 

Rivas, L. (2022). Stuck in Survival Mode: The Impact of Australian Immigration Detention on Women's Physical, Mental and Social Wellbeing. PhD Dissertation, Griffith University.  

2021 

Bhatia, M., & Mehta, R. (2021). Representations of Bangladeshis and internal 'Others' in the Indian press: the cases of Felani Khatun, Zohra Bibi and the 'woman in red sari'. From the European South, 9, 31-46. 

Cochrane, B. and Wolff, L. (2021) Mothers’ everyday security and performance of carework throughout the irregular migration experience. Journal of Human Security 

Mehta, R. (2021). Justice for those without rights: 'illegal' migrants and marginalized citizens in India. In L. Weber, & C. Tazreite (Eds.), Handbook of Migration and Global Justice (pp. 173-186). Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Soykan, Cavidan (2021): Seeking Refuge in Turkey: How and Why? The Experiences of Turkey’s Asylum Seekers. IMIS Working Paper 08, Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) der Universität Osnabrück. Osnabrück: IMIS. 

Soykan, C., Biehl, K., Hazan, C. (2021). Women Refugees and Gender Equality Mapping and Monitoring Study - Extended Summary 

2020 

Cochrane, B. (2020) Seeking asylum in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academia Letters 

Ham, J. & Gheorghiu, I. (2020). Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 23(10), 1375-1389.  

Ham, J. (2020). Anti-trafficking in Southeast Asia. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press 

2019 

Mehta, R. (2019). Two steps forward, one step backward: a step ahead? In S. I. Rajan, & N. Neetha (Eds.), Migration, Gender and Care Economy (pp. 161-177). Routledge.  

Mehta, R. (2019). Barbed affect: Bangladeshi child brides in India negotiate borders and citizenship. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 3(1), 67-82. 

2018 

Cochrane, B. (2018). Charting carework at the crossroads of border securtisation and irregular journeys. Journal of Refugee Studies, 1-28 

Cochrane, B. (2018) ‘Expectations and Realities of Fieldwork by a Nascent Qualitative Researcher’ in Reflexive Accounts of Research in an Era of Mass Mobility, Oxom: Routledge. 

Vecchio, F. & Ham, J. (2018). From subsistence to resistance: Asylum-seekers and the other ‘Occupy’ in Hong Kong. Critical Social Policy, 38(3): 201-221. 

Mehta, R. (2018). Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border. Routledge.  

Mehta, R. (2018). 'Illegal' Bangladeshis in Akhand Bharat: inscriptions of race and religion on citizenship. Economic and Political Weekly, 53(7). 

Rivas, L. and Bull, M. (2018). Gender and Risk: An Empirical Examination of the Experiences of Women Held in Long-Term Immigration Detention in Australia, Refugee Survey Quarterly, 37(3), 307-327.  

2017 

Ham, J. (2017). Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference. Routledge. 

2016 

Ham, J., Jung, K. & Jang, H. (2016). Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia. Sexualities, 19(4): 432-448.  

Mehta, R. (2016). Borders : a view from 'nowhere'. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 16(3), 286-300.  

2015 

Ham, J. (2015). Intuiting illegality in sex work. In S. Pickering & J. Ham (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration (pp. 206-219). London: Routledge. 

Pickering, S. & Ham, J. (2015). The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration. London: Routledge. 

2014 

Clancey, A., Khushrushahi, N. & Ham, J. (2014). Do evidence-based approaches alienate Canadian anti-trafficking funders? Anti-Trafficking Review, 3, 87-108.  

Ham, J. & Dewar, F. (2014). Shifting public anti-trafficking discourses through arts and media. In S. Yea (Ed.) Human Trafficking in Asia: Forcing Issues (pp. 185-199). Abingdon: Routledge. 

Mehta, R. (2014). So many ways to love you/self: negotiating love in a prison. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 16(2), 181-198. 

Mehta, R. (2014). The mango tree : exploring the prison space for research. In K. Lumsden, & A. Winter (Eds.), Reflexitivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless (pp. 47-57). Palgrave Macmillan. 

Pickering, S. & Ham, J. (2014). Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking. British Journal of Criminology, 54(1): 2-19.  

2013 

Ham, J. for GAATW. (2013). Trafficking and gender. In D.M. Figart & T.L. Warnecke (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life (pp. 542-558). Northampton: Edward Elgar. 

Ham, J., Segrave, M. & Pickering, S. (2013). In the eyes of the beholder: Gender and suspect travelers at the border and within the nation. Anti-Trafficking Review, 2: 51-56.  

Pickering, S., & Cochrane, B. (2013). Irregular border-crossing deaths and gender: Where, how and why women die crossing borders. Theoretical Criminology, 17(1), 27-48.