Mapping border deaths in Australia and Europe
PhD Candidate #Brandy_Cochrane (▻http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/brandy-cochrane) recently presented a research mapping exercise of those who have died whilst crossing borders to Australia and in Europe at the 2013 Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference in Brisbane. In developing her map, Brandy used BOb’s Australian Border Deaths Database and an EU equivalent from United Against Racism, to look at areas of origin and deaths at the borders of those attempting to make the perilous migration journey. She presents her findings and a discussion of the development of her map below arguing that those from certain areas are more likely to die in the borderlands than others, attributing such tragedies to border hardening tactics applied by states against these areas.
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/files/2013/10/1-Brandy-Map.jpg 
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/files/2013/10/BC-Table-1A-300x154.jpg 
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/files/2013/10/BC-Table-2-300x216.jpg ►http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/mapping-border-deaths-in-australia-and-europe-2
Le prezi de la présentation de Brandy:
▻http://prezi.com/rb7tpb_8qjfl/finalanzsoc011013
Australian Border Deaths Database
The Australian Border Deaths Database maintains a record of all known deaths associated with Australia’s borders since 1 January 2000.
The database was begun by Professor Sharon Pickering and Dr Leanne Weber as part of BOb’s Deaths at the Global Frontier project, culminating in the publication of the book Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier in 2011.
The Border Crossing Observatory continues to periodically update The Australian Border Deaths Database in line with the methodology detailed in Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier.
The most recent version (see below) records deaths at the Australian frontier for the period 1 January 2000 – October 2013, with a recorded 1,484+ border deaths.
Download a Microsoft Excel version of the table with a history of amendments here.
If you would like to report a border death to us please email bcrossingobservatory@gmail.com
Deaths at the Global Frontier
Controlling border crossing has become a prime concern under conditions of late modernity, leading western governments to introduce increasingly coercive control measures, ranging from visa regimes to military fortification.
Far from eradicating spontaneous border crossing, this ‘defensive geography’ has fuelled illicit people smuggling markets, and forced asylum seekers and illegalized travellers into increasingly hazardous journeys.
This project seeks to account for, rather than merely count, border-related deaths. It intends to shift the debate about contemporary border controls towards the acceptance of a more mobility-tolerant future.
▻http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/research-agenda/external-border-control/deaths-at-the-global-frontier
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