Principal speaker
Associate Professor Matthew Zagor
Abstract
This paper considers the ways in which resettlement policies have participated in tropes familiar to classical antinomian political theology. Focusing in particular on the lobbying that resulted in the prioritization of Christians from Syria and Iraq in the US and Australian programs, the paper identifies the ways in which images and narratives of the "martyred' middle-eastern Christian have been leveraged for political, redemptive and eschatological purposes, and critiques the use of "vulnerability' as a touchstone principle for the allocation of scarce resettlement places in the Australian model.
About the speaker
Matthew Zagor is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Law, Director of the ANU Law Reform and Social Justice Program, an Adjunct Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies, and a Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London.
About the seminar
Matthew will present his Law Futures Seminar at the Griffith Law School (N61) Nathan campus with a videolink to the Griffith Law School (G36) Gold Coast campus. When registering for this seminar, please indicate in your email which campus you will attend.
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